Integrated Transport Planning

City 2.e - Electromobility Concepts for Street Parkers Taking Account of Inner-City Framework Conditions

Duration: 01.03.2013 – 31.12.2013 (preliminary study)


Project management:

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christine Ahrend

Research associates:

  • Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Böhme
  • Stefanie Kettner, M.A.
  • Dipl.-Ing. Aline Delatte, M.A.
  • Dipl.-Soz. Julia Schuppan
  • Dipl.-Ing. Eckart Schenk
  • Dipl.-Soz. tech. Jessica Stock

Student assistants:

  • Daniel Goldmann
  • Madeleine Schwadtke
  • Raphael Wendt

 

The majority of electric car owners prefer the option of a private parking space with its own charging station compared to other charging possibilities.

Approximately 30% of car owners in Germany do not have their own private parking space. Most car owners, especially those in high density urban neighborhoods, park on public streets. A reliable, efficient, and needs-oriented charging infrastructure is one of several changes needed in order to make electric cars attractive to this group. However, planning such a charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles as part of a sustainable transport concept is a challenge.

In cooperation with Siemens and the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM), IVP is developing a concept for a public and semi-public charging infrastructure. In a follow-up study, this concept will be expanded to create and test a mobility platform with an integrated charging infrastructure in a Berlin neighborhood. City 2.e is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety’s electromobility research and development project (“Förderung von Forschung und Entwicklung im Bereich der Elektromobilität”).

In the preliminary project, the Chair of Integrated Transport Planning will examine a Berlin neighborhood to understand how street parkers use their vehicles and other transport today and which attitudes shape their usage behavior. Possible charging preferences and current trends towards an increasingly multi-modal mobility behavior will be observed to identify the types of charging infrastructures current street parkers need in the future.

Qualitative structured interviews with street parkers in a Berlin neighborhood form the basis for this. These are then followed by a “typecasting” of street parkers. At the same time, residents who do not own a car and already use several forms of transport will be examined as a contrasting group.

By comparing the two user groups, future potential and conditions can be formulated that are decisive for transitioning from an owner-based mobility to the use of a fully integrated transport system with different modes of transport.

IVP user and acceptance analysis - methodology

A further focus of our user and acceptance analysis is a comprehensive secondary analysis on street parkers in Germany and Berlin using available datasets on everyday mobility. This will allow region-specific statements about the number of street parkers as well as provide further information about their typecasting. The results of the user analysis will be incorporated into business models and technical solutions which also observe legal framework conditions for intermodal mobility concepts.

Project report

Publications and presentations

Schuppan, Julia; Kettner, Stefanie; Delatte, Aline  (2014): Urban multimodal travel behaviour: towards mobility without a private car, Presentation of project results at mobil.TUM 2014