Improved urban mobility toward climate neutrality under new working habits and transport modes (IMUMCN) is funded by ERA-Net Urban Accessibility and Connectivity Sino-European Program under the grant No. 2022/04/Y/HS4/00135. Professor UAM Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska is the PI at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
IMUMCN investigates the current situation of severe traffic congestion and emissions in the cities: Groningen, Poznań and Beijing. Achieving an efficient and climate-neutral urban transport system remains one of the key challenges for cities. The recent developments and widespread availability of technology (such as internet and mobile phones), new urban concepts such as the 15-minutes city, and changes in societal trends, particularly working habits (e.g., telework and overtime working) further complicate the problem, increasing uncertainty and providing new challenges to urban mobility. Understanding the impacts of these new developments on citizens’ job-home location choices and associated travel patterns, and providing new innovative solutions to the urban traffic system are critical to an efficient, low-emission and sustainable urban environment. With real-life experiments and advanced urban transport modelling approaches, we will investigate the short-run behavioral impacts and long-run implications of these challenges on urban mobility and city structure. We will further explore the potential for integrated Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions and market-based personal carbon permit trading in providing an efficient, equitable and lower-emission urban traffic system. This project thus aims to contribute to achieving accessible, climate-neutral and more sustainable cities, and provide citizens with sustainable and efficient solutions integrating multiple types of transport modes.
The project is carried out within an international consortium of the following institutions: University of Groningen (Project Leader), Beijing Jiaotong University, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Tsinghua University and Beijing Transport Institute.
The Poznań team includes researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University: Prof. Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska, Dr. Rafał Szymanowski and Dr. Marek Jaskólski.
