PLUME - Planning and Urban Mobility in Europe
Overview
Background & policy context:
PLUME is a Thematic Network within the Land-Use and Transportation Research cluster of the City of Tomorrow key action funded by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG RESEARCH, running for 30 months from November 2002.
The objective of PLUME is to seek to facilitate the transfer of innovation in the field of planning and urban mobility from the research community to end users in the cities of Europe in order to improve urban quality of life. This will be pursued by reviewing and synthesising concrete results from recent and current projects which will enable local authorities to develop their policies and measures in the field of sustainable development, land use and mobility planning.
Objectives:
PLUME aims to facilitate the transfer of innovation in the field of planning and urban mobility from the research community to end users in the cities of Europe in order to improve the quality of life. This will be achieved by reviewing the needs of end users in the field of sustainable urban development, land use and transport planning.
PLUME also aims to synthesize results of relevant national and international projects and produce an annual state of the art review, providing a readily assimilated summary of best practice in the development of sustainable mobility in cities. Independent experts will also be invited to review the applicability of the research results.
The project partners will work with participants in the initiative to establish a system for benchmarking the performance of cities and LUTR policies. PLUME has also facilitated discussions between researchers and end users at a series of workshops and seeks to disseminate and exploit best practices.
Methodology:
The PLUME network brings together experts and end-users with the explicit aim of exploring and exploiting best practices in the urban areas of Europe. The network consists of the following four groups:
Advisory Group
The advisory group is made up of independent experts who will provide peer reviewing and will assist with the facilitation of workshops. Members of this group include:
- Free University of Amsterdam,
- Joint Research Council,
- City of Cologne,
- City of Stockholm and
- Foundation for the Urban Environment.
Projects Group
The Projects Group includes representatives of key regional, national and international projects in the field of Land Use and Transport Research (LUTR) such as:
- University College London,
- University of Lund Sweden,
- CERTU,
- Technical University Hamburg,
- Spiekermann & Wegener,
- ENEA,
- LT Consultants ,
- Technical University of Vienna,
- STRATEC and
- Master Plan B.V.
Exploitation Group
This group is made up of consultants and suppliers who will exploit the results of the network locally in each country and will disseminate the results to a much wider group of eventual end users, such as:
- Technical University of Vienna,
- University Polytechnic of Madrid,
- National Technical University of Athens,
- TNO,
- TIS,
- Swedish Association of Local Authorities,
- ILS,
- Trinity College, Dublin,
- TRL and
- TOI.
End Users Group
The End Users group consists of representatives of local and regional authorities and transport operators from across Europe who will assist in the identification of user needs, will comment on recommendations and will validate the results of the research. Members of this group include:
- IMPACTS,
- INSULA,
- Aalborg,
- Athens,
- Merseyside,
- Naples,
- Stockholm,
- Brussels,
- Suceava,
- Clermont-Ferrand,
- Cologne,
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