Transport Studies Group

MOST - Mobility Management Strategies for the Next Decades

Contact: Dr. Sarah Wixey

MOST is a three-year research and demonstration project funded by the European Commission, DG Energy and Transport (TREN), under the 5^th Framework Programme. The project builds on the findings of several previous European research projects such as MOMENTUM, MOSAIC and INPHORMM. It is designed to further develop the concept of mobility management and expand the current scope of experience.

http://mo.st

MOST (which stands for 'bridge' in many Slavic languages) reaches out for new partnerships and extends mobility management to new subject areas and new regions where it is currently less well known. The project aims to deepen the understanding of success and failure factors through better evaluation and will show ways to integrate mobility management into general transport policy at all levels.

The project is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of mobility management in practice and includes more than thirty projects throughout Europe where mobility management is being tested in different settings. These projects are grouped into six thematic clusters which allow for the application of mobility management in new fields and the development of innovative schemes and tools.

The six clusters are:

Educational institutions

Tourism

Health facilities

Site development

Temporary sites

Mobility consulting/centres

There are also four horizontal work packages which aim to ensure a consistent scientific approach and tackle some overarching questions like long-term impact assessment, the development of monitoring and evaluation tools and standards, the investigation of policy frameworks and implementation strategies or the transfer of knowledge and experience.

Further information about the project can be found on the MOST website: http://mo.st

TSG is leading the cluster on travel to health facilities, which includes hospitals in the UK and Belgium, day care centres in Spain and a clinic in Austria. TSG is also involved in the overall management of the project, with particular responsibility for quality control.

For more information and for other work on mobility management, please contact:

Dr. Sarah Wixey
Tel: +44 (0)20-7911-5834
Fax: +44 (0)20-7911-5057
E-mail: tsgadmin@westminster.ac.uk

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