Exploring the Alpine SUMP with the PUMAS ASC: An Online Community of Practice for Combining Planning and Learning in Urban Mobility Planning

摘要

Sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP) is an approach for empowering all stakeholders in mobility planning (WEFERING et al., 2014). By involving a large group of stakeholders and structuring the interaction between stakeholders and planners in a way that the citizens’ needs are met, new responsibilities for the shared environment, i.e., the planned city are built up and good practice develops. Many cities have by now established sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs). In some countries, e. g. in France, the creation of such a plan is mandatory (in France, the SUMP is called PDU). However, the people in charge of creating and establishing a local SUMP often lack experience in SUMP. Good practice repositories approach this problem by collecting experiences and explaining how a SUMP has been established in a specific city (cf. Section 2). Interaction is, however, still limited in these communities. On the other hand, shared workspaces for planning often lack a connection to existing planning knowledge. Planners do not have knowledge awareness and thus redesign SUMPs from scratch.udIn this paper, we will first summarize a small part of theory relevant for knowledge-aware workspaces for SUMP and relate this to good practice repositories for planning knowledge. Our analysis shows that existing knowledge sharing environments are very well addressing the needs of planners who actively seek information and inspiration. However, in current working settings, planners and to-be-involved stakeholders often do not know what they could learn from other cities. They do not even look for this information. To overcome this problem, we present the PUMAS ASC platform and elaborate on the platform’s mechanisms towards knowledge awareness. The platform is complemented with a set of tools that help planners and other stakeholders to engage in a conversation on planning issues. We will describe how we design planning workspaces and processes that support mobility planners and stakeholders in SUMP-related planning activities.