What is?
THE PROJECT
Nowadays there are more than 400 industrial areas in Catalunya which differ on extent, activities and location, and all of them have been developed with a lack of mobility planning.
The main mobility problems that these areas have to face are:
- Lack of mobility planning.
- Accidents that occur frequently in the home-work trips and during the working day.
- Lack – and usually inexistence – of public and collective transport and consequently there is a massive use of private transport to access industrial areas.
- Deficiencies on the intermodality systems.
- Cycling and walking to work is not encouraged because the industrial areas don’t have the infrastructure necessary to facilitate this kind of mobility.
- There is not a framework of cooperation between social and institutional stakeholders involved in the industrial areas to work on mobility issues.
- Municipality Urban Plans don’t take into account the planning of mobility in the industrial areas.
- Inexistence of instruments for the management of mobility in industrial areas.
The Mobility Law 9/2003 from 13 of June represents an opportunity to further develop mobility planning and management.
Objectives
- To identify the main mobility problems and to establish proposals with the aim to achieve a more sustainable mobility in the six industrial areas selected.
- To reach consensus about the sustainable mobility proposals among the stakeholders involved in industrial areas
- To generate a specific management system based on the implementation of mobility managers.
- To give answers and generate changes in the mobility habits of the employees and employers in industrial areas.
- To promote sustainable mobility in industrial areas and to transfer the management experiences to other industrial areas.
With these aims, Gesmopoli project seeks to tackle this extreme situation and to achieve the objectives previously mentioned using an innovative methodology.