Workplace, Course Centre, Municipality and Regional Tourism: An Integrated Mobility Management in Magglingen/Evilard, Switzerland ECOMM San Sebastian,

Workplace, Course Centre, Municipality and Regional Tourism: An Integrated Mobility Management in Magglingen/Evilard, Switzerland

ECOMM San Sebastian, May 13-15, 2009

Eva Martin-Diener1, Raffaela Léchot1, Rolf Steiner2

1 Swiss Federal Office of Sport Magglingen, Switzerland2 verkehrsteiner Bern, Switzerland

2 Federal Office of Sport FOSPO

Physical Activity & Health Branch

Contents

• Location

• Challenge and aims

• Development of the MM

• Measures

• Results

• Costs

• Summary and conclusions

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Location

Magglingen(900-1000 m)

Evilard(650-750 m)

Biel/Bienne(450 m)

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Public transport

Train station(Intercity trains)

Magglingen

Evilard

Biel/Bienne

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Public transport

Train station(Intercity trains)

Magglingen

Evilard

Biel/Bienne

funicularrailways

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Public transport

Train station(Intercity trains)

Magglingen

Evilard

Biel/Bienne

funicularrailways

Buses

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

The Federal Office of Sports FOSPO

Main buildings

funicularrailway station

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

The Federal Office of Sports FOSPO

Main buildings

funicularrailway station

Parking lots

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

The Federal Office of Sports

• Unit of the federaladministration

• Course centre

• Technicaluniversity

• 300 employees, 120 students

• 120’000 customers annually (2008)

• 2003: about 280 permanent parking spaces

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Local and regional tourism

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Challenge in 2003 / Aims

• Parking situation often out of control

• More customers expected

>>> Meet the mobility needs of:• Employees• Customers• Local residents• Local tourism

>>> Without constructing more parking spaces

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Development of the MM

• Process and organisation

• Methods

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Process and organisation

• Initiative and lead: FOSPO

• Project group at FOSPO

• Mandate to a professional MM expert

• Commitment of the management

• Local authorities involved

• Two year process

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Methods

• Assessments of travel behaviour, needs, attitudes and expectations of employees and customers

• Assessment of acceptance of different measures

• Estimation of potential modal shift away from private cars, for different measures>> Overall about 1/3

• Baseline counts on parking lots

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Measures

• Make private parking less attractive

• Encouragement of public transport use and walking / cycling

• Communication

• Collaboration with municipality

• Employment of a “mobility manager” to implement the concept (50% job)

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Make private parking less attractive

• Price for all-year parking card doubled for all employees

• Fees for spontaneous parking introduced or increased respectively; for all parking spaces,for all users

• Massive control

• Eco-bonus for employees NOT requesting an all-year parking card in Magglingen

• Encouragement of car sharing and park&ride

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Encouragement of public transport

• Prize reduction on regional public transport pass (“job ticket”)

• Coordination of bus with funicular railway

• Coordination of course schedules with public transport timetables

• Communication of public transport connections and timetables to course organisers and participants

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Encouragement of cycling

• Improved cycle parking at funicular railway station in Biel/Bienne

• Improved cycle parking at FOSPO

• Participation in nationalbike to work campaign

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Communication

• Continuous informationof employeesand customers

• Local media

• New signalisations

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Collaboration with municipality• “multifunctional” school bus

• Circulates between villages and training facilities of FOSPO

• Primarily for school children, but:• Denser timetable than necessary for school• Free for employees, course participants and

the public• Additional costs mainly covered by FOSPO

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Results

• MM is operated successfully since January 2005

• MM is well accepted by employees, customers and local residents

• Existing parking spaces are sufficient despite an increase in the number of customers

• 2003: 60% of employees required parking space; 2007: 40%

• Implementation could be reduced from a 50%to a 20% job

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Costs (without new infrastructure)

Income (2007): 170’000 Euro• Parking fees 60%• All-year p. cards 25%• Parking fines 14%• Other 1%

Expenses (2007): 110’000 Euro• Eco bonus 28%• “School bus” 21%• Parking control 21%• Mobility manager 10%• Job tickets 9%• Other 11%

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Physical Activity & Health Branch

Summary and conclusions

• Project was highly complex• Potential for modal shift was limited• Estimated modal shift could be realised• Every single measure was probably

necessary• System is financially self-sustaining• Professional support for development and

resources for implementation were crucial• After some two years MM was routine for all

affected groups

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Thank you very much for your attention!