Reduce the cost of mobility
This cost relationship between mobility and housing is now being investigated for the Alpine region by researchers from the iSPACE research studio to find out how costs can be saved and mobility planned sustainably. Target groups are individual citizens, but also politicians and planners.
The decision on where to live determines how long you have to travel to work, school or leisure activities. This cost relationship between mobility and housing is now being investigated by researchers at the iSPACE research studio in the Alpine region to find out how costs can be saved and mobility planned sustainably. Target groups are individual citizens, but also politicians and planners. Especially in the private sector, decisions on the location issue are often made without any assessment of the long-term effects. New residential buildings and settlements are often built where short-term costs are low – in rural areas. However, the mobility costs, especially of individual transport, but also congestion times, are hardly ever considered here.
For the future, location decisions by private individuals, developers and companies, but also by political decision-makers, should be better geared to the settlement structure, especially to centres with infrastructural supply and attractive public transport.
The Research Studio iSPACE is a partner in the MORECO project, which is partly financed by the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and by the Alpine Space Programme. The project duration started on 1 July 2011 and lasts until 30 June 2014, it is a transnational cooperation of 5 countries from the Alpine Space. The aim of MORECO is to develop a foresighted strategy for future settlement development and to support the accessibility of existing spatial structures with sustainable transport modes.
The ISPACE studio tries to combine spatial planning methods with activities for demand-oriented public transport planning. With methods of geoinformatics, planning tools are applied in the pilot region of Salzburg with the aim of a more objective evaluation of long-term mobility costs for different residential location decisions. In this way, its research work contributes to the development of a future-oriented settlement development and supports mobility planners in user-oriented supply planning.