Co-creating sustainable community mobility.

The challenge

Without significant public transport infrastructure, the policy and legislative push to decarbonise mobility has the potential to further marginalise our most vulnerable groups particularly in smaller towns with less developed infrastructure. While decarbonisation may be the ultimate policy objective, ensuring that social cohesion is maintained is key. By enabling community empowerment in mobility planning, just transitions become more achievable meeting not just climate but wider policy goals.

To date, the behavioural changes required to decarbonise our mobility system have been limited. The development of more resilient urban areas and sustainable communities requires government, citizens, enterprise, service providers and researchers to work together.

The CONUNDRUM project is developing a process, supported by the TownsMatter platform, for better engaging with communities and diverse stakeholders as part of a reimagined public consultation process. We are also empowering communities with new knowledge and fora to better assert their needs and work collaboratively with local and other government agencies to make impactful change to enhance quality of life.