Mathias Merforth
I am a transport economist working as advisor and project manager for GIZ. I am coordinating TUMI's capacity-building activities #MobilizeMinds. Visit www.transformative-mobility.org to find out more!
Location Germany
Activity
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The mobility vision for my neighbourhood would be something like this: "We value people and their needs more than the needs of individual motorised traffic. Therefore, we're constantly improving the attractiveness and identity of our neighboorhood, while assuring acccessibility for all inhabitants, guests, services and businesses.
A: Identify key needs for...
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Role 1: 236154
Connectivity towards the city centre prioritised by different transport modes, slight tendency towards sustainable mobility options, as connectivity could be already quite could, thus the worker not necessarily uses or requires a car for daily mobility needs.
Role 2: 451326
Daily mobility needs of a women with complex travel patterns... -
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Would it be possible to send an e-mail with the invitation link to all participants?
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A cost-efficient strategy (not only since Corona) in Berlin has been the deployment of cycling streets. Those streets indicate by signing and road markings clear priority for the bicycle, while in most cases not excluding the car ("car is guest"). This has been accompanied with some smaller scale interventions such as improved crossings and routing schemes....
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The typical mode of transport used by almost everyone is the tram (we're having a wonderful green tram corridor on one side of the building), walking, cycling and using e-scooters is very popular, too. On the other side of the building in contrast, cars are parked everyhwere, it has even been legalised to park everywhere, including half-side on previously...
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At least there seems to be a correlation with comprehensive road safety policies and measures and falling numbers of fatalities, as this poster impressively shows https://sutp.org/publications/poster-a-comprehensive-approach-for-road-safety-the-example-of-germany/
At its peak Germany's road death almost reached 20.000 per year, today idling above 3.000...
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Very early on we learned that the German Federal Transport Planning largely pretends that induced travel demand wouldn't exist (or estimating it zero because it cannot otherwise be quantified ;-)) The result is business as usual, focusing on highway capacity expansion. Though investment has since been shifted slightly towards rail and highway maintencance...
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I'm living in Berlin, with motorisation rates at around 330 (private cars/1000 inhabitants). Given that incomes in Berlin are lower, but public transport quality rather comparable, this makes sense. However motorisation seems to be slightly growing lately - We might need more efforts to attract more regular consumers (trams every 5 instead of every 10 minutes...
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City A seems to be Munich (-3,6%),City B Warsaw (+78,6).
The different methodologies can be rather confusing. UK cities are likely to present motorisation rates for population aged 17+, thus making this figure a little complicated to compare to other cities (where 1000 of general population is the base to compare against). Further, it often requires diving...
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I would propose to add (sustainable) urban mobility planning, urban sprawl, green and blue infrastructure, micromobility. Some explanations could be improved in accuracy (e.g. motorisation - normally refers to car possession (rates), ASI - it could be explained what it stands for).
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Hello everyone! I'm Mathias, living in a large-scale residential area in Berlin, consisting mainly of 11-storey-buidlings. In fact, I largely enjoy the city's extensive public transport system as well as safely walking and cycling in most places.
Still, there's a lot to improve... Although the next tram-stop is only few meters away, with a tram to the...
