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Long term evaluation: CIVITAS 10 years later

Lessons for upscaling of urban mobility projects

September 27th, 2016

Gdynia, Poland

Tariq van Rooijen & Eline Jonkers, TNO

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Why a long term evaluation?

• To develop ‘evidence’ of what CIVITAS has

achieved

• Focus on CIVITAS II

• 2005-2009

• > 200 measures implemented

• 17 cities

• At end of CIVITAS II impossible to

understand impacts in the longer run

CIVITAS Forum • Long term evaluation CIVITAS WIKI

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Long term evaluation of CIVITAS I

(Carried out by CIVITAS CATALIST – Rupprecht Consult &

Goudappel Coffeng, 2010)

• Top 3 drivers for implementation:

• Political commitment

• Availability of funding

• Cooperation-partnership

• Top 3 barriers for implementation:

• Lack of funding

• Legislation & regulations

• Administrative structures & practices


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How did we evaluate long term impacts

of CIVITAS II?

• Desk research

• Questionnaires

• 10 City visits with interviews

• Selection based on

– Willingness of cities to cooperate

– Number and diversity of measures

– Spread over Europe

– Follow-up of the measures


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How was the analysis done?

• Exploration of the use and effect of measures in a city

after CIVITAS in a qualitative way

• Conclusions on several levels: overall, city, type of

measure

• Examples of research questions used:

• Why was a measure in the long term a success, or why not? Was this

dependent on the type of measure, the city, the person working on it, the

budget, etc.?

• What measure types were most/least successful?

• In which areas of Europe were the measures most successful?

• Did scaling up of measures take place?

• How are the CIVITAS II cities now involved in sustainable mobility?


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Cities selected for city visit


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Questionnaire results published…


… and all long term evaluation results

about to be published

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Some interesting results…


• Most measures still in place, less than

20% cancelled

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Lessons for upscaling of projects


Success factors for implementations

• Measure in the scope of influence of

city authority (e.g. traffic

management)

• Low investment and operational

costs (e.g. walking)

• Synergies between measures

• Incentive programmes

• Possibility that measure becomes

self-sustaining

• Awareness of the problem

• Right timing (e.g. cycling)

• Easy to explain (proven) benefits (e.g.

traffic management)

Barriers for implementation

• Involvement/participation from

commercial companies needed (e.g.

logistics & goods distribution)

• Lack of acceptance (e.g. parking

measures)

• Participation from travellers needed

(e.g. car sharing)

• Many (national and/or European)

regulations involved (e.g. clean

vehicles & fuels)

• High investment and operational

costs

• No synergies between measures

• Technical barriers; trials can have a

high risk of failure (e.g. clean vehicles

& fuels)

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Most beneficial outcomes of participating

• Ability to implement initiatives, technologies, measures

and policies – with funding

• More sustainable urban mobility in the city

• Exchange and sharing of knowledge, experience and ideas

• Innovation

• Strong local partnerships and opportunity to gather around

the table local public and private partners

• (Structuring of) methodology and evaluation

• Raising awareness of politicians and key decision makers


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Top 3 lessons learned

• Involve stakeholders: create local partnerships between

key stakeholders to enable synergies, use their knowledge

and skills for citizen engagement, involve user groups and

travellers, etc.

• Learn from other cities: experts from outside the city can

give valuable input on projects, technical exchanges

improve quality of local actions,

approaches from partner cities

can be helpful, etc.

• Political commitment and support

is necessary and critical to

successful delivery


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For more results…

• Come to the presentation on the long term

evaluation of CIVITAS II!

• Session 9

• Thursday September 29th

• 9:30-11:00

• Room D


Thank you!

Tariq van Rooijen Eline Jonkers

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http://www.civitas.eu


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