SPROUT case studies: Assessing future mobility scenarios by following a city-led consequence analysis framework - the case of Budapest and Tel Aviv city

Abstract

The rapid changes in the urban mobility environment together with the on-going and future technological trends constitute a great challenge for policy makers to assess the expected impacts. This study aims to confront these issues through the development and application of a framework for anticipating the effect of the transition taking place in a city's urban mobility environment. The framework is used for collecting the required data from the cities, followed by the analysis of the results and the identification of the impacts of any city-specific future mobility scenario. In this paper, the cases of Budapest and Tel Aviv are chosen to be presented as two cities with similar size, population and level of smartness. The cross-comparison of the two cases shows the consequences foreseen, as for example an increased level of congested streets, while also of the Air Quality index.