Retired senior citizens in Austria
As a mission-oriented programme, Mobility of the Future aims at supporting the advancement of the mobility system, in particular where new approaches are needed to address mobility-relevant social challenges and where RTI measures have the potential for a transformation necessary to tackle related challenges.
Innovation and Technology in changing needs of mobility: This is a longstanding multidisciplinary project of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology on research on future solutions for mobility, also especially for older people, Automated People Mover, paratransit, barrier-free solutions “RetroFitness”, new forms of cooperation in transports, micro-mobility, nomadic devices, intelligent information systems etc.
Austrian government
The Research Programme Mobility of the Future focuses on the quest for integrated solutions designed to shape the personal mobility system of the future. This system must be sustainable (minimizing the environmental impact), efficient (considering the resource input), affordable, safe, reliable and user-friendly and balance social, environmental and economic needs. This integrated approach helps to create systems that contribute significantly to ensuring mobility while minimizing the adverse impacts of transport.
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As part of pursuing an application-oriented research approach, the focus lies on three specific fields of research and innovation. These address key topics, research questions and specific missions deriving from current and future challenges and opportunities. New mobility services and behaviors within the context of multimodal lifestyles are addressed, ecologically sustainable and healthy forms of motion in the field of active mobility as well as equality in mobility to ensure and advance accessibility, availability and usability of the transport system for all user groups.
Current prognoses predict increasing urbanization and growth of cities and their surroundings and make it vital to address the consequential challenges. Congestion, scarcity of space as well as air pollution and risk of accidents due to high traffic volumes pose major challenges in urban areas. To improve the accessibility and ensure equal opportunities for the rural and urban population the integration of innovative mobility choices and services is promoted through comfortable and sustainable mobility options.
The theme personal mobility is based on the major strategic and operational objectives and contributions to the Mobility of the Future programme. It follows a systemic approach to initiate and promote R&D on sustainable personal mobility and includes measures to improve and increase the effective learnings from the results. The innovations bring about new services and practices in mobility to initiate a comprehensive transformation of the transport system. They also significantly contribute to the achievement of medium term objectives in the fields of decarbonisation, strengthening competitiveness as well as maintaining the quality of life. Furthermore, the increase of wealth by minimizing the undesirable effects of transport and reducing inequality in society is addressed. In order to comprehensively analyze sustainability, research should therefore focus on the increase of efficiency and feasibility and in particular questions on how to achieve a sufficient use of mobility services.
Any country can follow the guide in order to find similar problems experienced by elder people and address them accordingly. However, an individual approach to each region where it was applied, needs to be provided, in order to allocate the project resources in the most efficient way based on the local cultural and economic characteristics.
Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) Unit III/I4 – Mobility and Transport Technologies A-1030 Vienna, Radetzkystraße 2
Contact: DI Walter Wasner Responsible for the theme „Personal Mobility“ within the programme Mobility of the Future (Mobilität der Zukunft – MdZ)
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