Raskeyn, Cheyenne (2021) Evaluating Strategies for Sustainable Mobility: A qualitative comparison of Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
As part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission expressed its ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with at least 55% in 2030 compared to 1990, with the final aim to become climate neutral in 2050. In the Netherlands the traffic and transport sector is one of the largest sources of CO2 emissions, and thus drastic changes need to be made to make both cities and mobility sustainable. This raises the question to what extent current mobility policies are addressing challenges and opportunities, and what lessons different cities can learn from each other. This because there currently is little known about how mobility policies address sustainability challenges in practice and what is missing. The aim of this study is therefore to compare the approaches of Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden with regards to sustainable mobility in four categories: trip substitution, modal shift, distance reduction and technological innovation. A content analysis of policy documents shows that the municipality of Amsterdam has the most extensive approach, tackling issues in most categories (modal shift, distance reduction and technological innovation). Delft and Leiden have been mostly addressing challenges of the categories modal shift and technological innovation. These large differences between the approaches of the studied cities could be coherent with the differences in budget. None of the cities have considered the category trip substitution. This could possibly be explained by the difficult position of municipalities to implement measures in this category. Policy recommendations are the stimulation of working from home policies using subsidy arrangements (trip substitution), the development of eHubs (modal shift), setting requirements for concentrations in to build areas within city boundaries (distance reduction), and the development of MaaS tools (technological innovation).
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Woltjer, J. |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2021 08:26 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2021 08:26 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3530 |
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