Urban Transport Roadmaps Tool
Basic Information
Language
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
Latest update
Price
Free of charge
Application time
The tool can be set up to represent your city within minutes. Policies can then be added equally quickly. It is designed to be easy and quick to use. More advanced settings are available and will lead to more robust results; this typically takes 1-2 hours
Assistance required
Initial use of the tool requires no training. However, training is advised to understand all the potential settings. Training webinars, a detailed user guide and additional support are available on the website.
Assistance data
The tool is populated from drop down menus so minimal input data is required. More advanced users can input specific data on aspects such as initial mode split.
Tool type
Method / Approach Software
Application area
- Analysis, scenarios and measure selection
- Appraisal and assessment
Target Audience
- Small cities
- Medium-sized cities
- Large cities
Summary
The urban transport roadmaps tool is a web-based system to help city authorities develop urban transport roadmaps that address the most pressing environmental, social and economic issues faced by their transportation systems between now and 2030.
The tool provides cities with the ability to identify, develop, screen and assess different transport policies and measures. In particular, it helps cities to quickly and easily assess the likely costs and impacts of measures that could help them improve the sustainability of their transport systems. Cities can explore combinations of different policy scenarios and assess the impacts of these scenarios on the environment, safety, mobility, the economy and the city’s transport system.
This type of scenario analysis helps cities to rapidly identify which policy measures are likely to be useful in supporting their own urban transport sustainability goals. A key benefit of the tool is that users do not need any prior experience in transport modelling. The tool is user-friendly, and has a simple and intuitive graphical user interface.
Good Example
The tool is being used by a number of cities to explore packages of transport measures to support the development of their SUMPs. Early cities working with the tool include Gothenburg (Sweden), Zagreb (Croatia) and Burgas (Bulgaria). In the first 6 months of the tool release there were some 1,800 individual users of the tool website.
Thematic areas
Active mobility
- Walking
- Cycling
Collective passenger transport & shared mobility
Clean & energy-efficient vehicles
Smart, Sustainable, Connected and Shared mobility
Demand & urban space management
- Access restrictions and management
- Road pricing
- Parking management and pricing
Behavioural change & mobility management
Road safety & security
- Enhancing passenger security
- Safer roads, bike and foot paths
- Cybersecurity and data privacy
Urban logistics
Integrated & inclusive planning
Public participation & co-creation
Contacts
The urban transport roadmaps tool was developed for DG Move by Ricardo Energy & Environment and Trasporti e Territorio. The project co-ordinator is Guy Hitchcock at Ricardo.
guy.hitchcock [at] ricardo.com
00 44 1235 753327
