Sustainable Mobility in Cities: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Transportation in Tubingen

摘要

The on hand paper describes an approach that aims to reduce the carbon footprint of transport in the city of Tubingen (Germany) to 50 percent until 2030. While the total amount of carbon emissions in Germany has been decreasing in past 20 years, the transport sector has still raised its percentage. Moreover the mobility needs of our society have grown noteably. The author describes insights of a model project taking place in Tubingen. Tubingen is a mid-sized city located in South Germany near Stuttgart with about 85.000 inhabitants. Already today Tubingens transport system and the mobility of the inhabitants are exemplary in terms of sustainability (e.g. modal split, distances). However the local city council is ambitious to pass a resolution and implement applicable measures to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. Within this project, different strategies of urban and regional development, transport planning as well as technical approaches will be described and assessed concerning their efficiency by using transport models and computation tools. In several workshops including local stakeholders these strategies are being adopted and assumed regarding efficiency and acceptance to meet the -50 percent goal. At the end the city council is going to discuss the results and decide a masterplan with innovative measures for a sustainable mobility in Tubingen. After a successful pilot project the measures will be implementes and the experiences will be carried out to other cities in Germany and Europe.