A3 (NRP 41) - New, Integrated Mobility Services, NIM
Overview
Background & policy context:
The National Research Programm (NRP) 41 was launched by the Federal Council at the end of 1995 to improve the scientific basis on which Switzerland's traffic problems might be solved, taking into account the growing interconnection with Europe, ecological limits, and economic and social needs. The NRP 41 aimed to become a think-tank for sustainable transport policy. Each one of the 54 projects belongs to one of the following six modules:
- A Mobility: Socio-institutional Aspects
- B Mobility: Socio-economical Aspects
- C Environment: Tools and Models for Impact Assessments
- D Political and Economic Strategies and Prerequisites
- E Traffic Management: Potentials and Impacts
- F Technologies: Potentials and Impacts
- M Materials
- S Synthesis Projects
Objectives:
This study aims to find out more about so-called Integrated Mobility Services. The study wants to:
- Gather information about existing Integrated Mobility Services in Switzerland;
- Find out more about the users und non-users attitude towards Integrated Mobility Services;
- Have a closer look at the chances and the diffusion of mobility services (mobility packages);
- Estimate the environmental impact of mobility services (mobility packages);
- Make suggestions for a service marketing for mobility services (mobility packages).
Methodology:
This study, which focuses on mobility-packages, is based empirically on four inter-related surveys in Switzerland as well as two complementary ones in Germany.
For Switzerland these are:
- a pilot survey among users of 'mobility-packages' in Bern, Zurich, Winterthur, Lucerne, and Lenzburg (310 persons net in 1997);
- a survey among non-users of these mobility-packages in the same cities in the German-speaking part of Switzerland (233 persons net in 1997);
- a survey among non-users in the French-speaking agglomerations Geneva and Lausanne (394 persons net in 1998);
- as well as a complementary survey among 50 Swiss experts regarding the chances and pre-conditions of a further spreading of such mobility-packages in Switzerland (in 1998).
These surveys were extended by means of a pilot survey with a similar questionnaire in the city of Essen (Germany) among 79 non-users as well as by a survey in the German agglomerations Cologne, Nuremberg and Dresden (750 persons in 1998) in parts methodologically similar and carried out by Prognos AG. The analyses of the study are founded mainly on the comparison of the following groups:
- users and non-users of mobility-packages (in both the German and the French-speaking parts of Switzerland),
- holders of a driving licence in the non-users group who are or are not interested in mobility-packages, as well as complementary
- those interested in Switzerland and Germany,
- additionally the potential customers' wishes regarding the services are related to the experts' opinions.
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