1. SUMP Concept: the need for an update Reflections from CREATE
Peter Jones
Scientific Coordinator
SUMPS Co-ordinating Group Meeting, Brussels, 10th and 11th October, 2017

2. Key Points
The SUMP is an important policy tool that encourages cities to look well beyond providing for private motor vehicles, and instead to promote sustainable urban mobility
But it is now recognised by leading cities that transport systems play a much wider role in delivering city visions
SUMP guidance alludes to this, but not fully explored
Scope to update and expand the concept – and provide analytical advice too?

3. CREATE: ‘Transport Policy Development Process’
Planning for people movement: public transport, walking & cycling; roadspace reallocation
Planning for city life: transport as ‘place’; active traffic restraint; remove some obtrusive road infrastructure, support other objectives (e.g. health)
Planning for vehicle movement: road building, parking

4. Stage 3: Street Redesign1

5. Dubrovnik SUMP conference
30/03/17

6. SUMP Objectives = ‘Stage 2’ (Annex 1 17.12.2013)
Accessible – meet mobility needs
Balances diverse demands
Integration of different modes
Meets sustainability requirements
Optimises efficiency and cost- effectiveness
Makes better use of urban space & transport infrastructure
Enhances attractiveness of urban environment, quality of life and public health = ‘Stage 3’
Improves safety and security
Reduces air & noise pollution, energy & CO2
Contributes to better TEN-T performance

7. Future framing of SUMPS…..
Urban mobility-related forward policy-making being driven by two factors:
(A) Impacts of new transport – and non-transport – technologies, on demand and supply: ‘consumer-led’ revolution -> increasing market pressures (e.g. Uber)
(B) Vision of future policy evolution of cities, based on social values: ‘citizen-led’ evolution

8. A: Technology-led Developments of Stages 1 & 2
MaaS
AVs & fleet electrification

9. Potential impact of AVs – do we revert to S1?
AV-dominated, lower density cities??

10. Alternative city trajectories
Low-density lifestyle?
Stage 2 -> Stage 3
Source: analysis by Roger Teoh, MSc Dissertation Imperial/UCL 2016
UITP data 1995

11. B: - A Progression to ‘Stage 4’?
Planning for people movement: public transport, walking & cycling; roadspace reallocation
Planning for city life: transport as ‘place’; active traffic restraint; remove some obtrusive road infrastructure, support other objectives (e.g. health)
Stage 4?
Planning for vehicle movement: road building, parking
Mobility densification: Planning for city accessibility: cross sector planning and operation; smart cities??

12. Recommendations from CREATE
A SUMP refresh should be explicitly based on Stage 3 thinking
SUMP objectives to be broadened -> SDS??
Incorporate SULPs?
For debate: should SUMP+ also encourage cities to anticipate the future and choose a development path:
Consumer-led revolution OR citizen-led evolution?