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Overview
ASI - Assess implementations in the
frame of the Cities-of-tomorrow – is an accompanying measure of the EC 5th Framework Program Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development in the Key Action 4:
Cities of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage. Partners from five different
countries are involved in the project: The main objective of the project is to provide knowledge about the practice of life quality assessment by different disciplines in connection with different types of public measures in the area of town planning and design, transportation and mobility. Transport and mobility play an
important role in the concept of LQ as they are central elements
of the integration in society. Due to the strong engineering
focus taken in this area so far, too little action has been
taken to understand, what difficulties different groups and
sub-groups of people have with transport and mobility, as the
need and interests of the relevant segments of the population
are not considered appropriately. Solutions in the transport and
mobility area developed according to the methods suggested in
ASI, will be more effective and more efficient, because they
meet the needs of the target groups, i.e. different groups of
citizens in different parts of Europe. ASI wants to improve the
understanding of the assessment of groups of citizen’s LQ by responsible politicians and experts. This will
be done by the analysis how mobility policies of five implementations in
the frame of LUTR (Land Use and Transport Research Cluster) viz. of
the Key Action Cities of Tomorrow (CoT) affect LQ, according to the
peoples who are involved in these project in responsible roles. Evaluation
will be based on expert interviews, dealing with the following
questions: How is LQ of different groups of citizens affected by town planning,
transport and mobility conditions and how is it assessed by the
responsible people. The main product of ASI will be an advice for improved assessment processes. The product will consist of a toolbox for
the assessment of LQ in connection with town planning, transport and mobility, a databank concept, and guidelines for
implementations. The developed instruments will be tested in a pilot study. ObjectivesOne goal in connection with implementation of policies and
measures in the frame of the Key Action Cities of Tomorrow (CoT) 15 to
improve Life quality (LQ) in the Cities. ASI will help to improve assessment
and appropriate consideration of LQ assessment results in connection
with urban transport and mobility policies. The focus of the project
will be on the subjective part of LQ. Many measures have been
implemented so far in the frame of this Key action. In ASI, we want to select five
CoT implementation-sites in different parts of Europe and to find
out how LQ aspects are assessed and taken care of, there. Based on the
results of the evaluation of these sites we will develop a toolbox to
assess LQ effects of proposed and implemented policies and measures which
will be tested in a pilot- study. Moreover, the concept for a data-bank
for the storage of qualitative data of LQ assessments and measures based
on them will be developed. To improve life quality in cities is
a main goal of the Key Action Cities of Tomorrow (CoT). We consider an accompanying measure
the appropriate frame to analyse heuristically the usual practical procedures applied to take care of LQ- aspects.
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