TUM Accessibility Planning

🎄✨Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!✨🎄 As 2024 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on the incredible journey we've shared this year. From innovative research projects to meaningful collaborations and inspiring conversations, your support has been at the heart of everything we do. We’re grateful to our students, colleagues, and partners for their dedication to creating more inclusive and accessible spaces for everyone. As we step into 2025, we’re excited to continue shaping the future of urban mobility and accessibility planning together. Here’s to another year of enriching collaborations! Warm wishes for a joyful holiday season and a prosperous and healthy new year! 🌟

I am happy and honoured to have finally welcomed my friend Benjamin Büttner to Barcelona, to have visited superblock sites, and to have walked together through the Consell de Cent green axis and the new Diagonal Avenue tram line. Benjamin and his team at TUM Accessibility Planning are for me a key reference in transport/mobility/accessibility planning and specifically on proximity urban conditions, from whom I am always learning. We both agree, that there is no other way to move forward but to collaborate and cooperate with everybody who is thinking/working on how to evolve our cities to a healthier, fairer and happier condition.

Gemeinsames Whitepaper mit TUM Accessibility Planning: Deutschlandweite Bewertung der ÖPNV-Erschließung mit den ÖV-Güteklassen 2024 🚉 Die Verkehrswende meistern: Mit einer attraktiven und erreichbaren ÖPNV-Infrastruktur können Städte und Gemeinden den Pkw-Verkehr reduzieren und den Umweltverbund stärken. Doch wie wird die ÖPNV-Qualität objektiv bewertet? Hier kommen die ÖV-Güteklassen ins Spiel – ein bewährtes Modell zur Beurteilung der ÖPNV-Erreichbarkeit, das in unserer WebGIS-Plattform GOAT integriert ist. So haben die Berechnungen zum Beispiel gezeigt, dass die Stadt Rostock unter den Großstädten die beste ÖV-Güte aufweist. 🏙 In diesem Whitepaper, das im Rahmen der engen Zusammenarbeit mit Sebastian Seisenberger, Benjamin Büttner sowie Shravan Shinde im Projekt GOAT 3.0 entstanden ist, analysieren wir die ÖV-Erschließungsqualität in Deutschland und beleuchten Unterschiede zwischen urbanen und ländlichen Regionen. 🏞 GOAT ermöglicht hierbei durch flexible Berechnungen und akkurate Daten, die tatsächliche fußläufige Erreichbarkeit von Haltestellen darzustellen und detaillierte Einblicke in den ÖPNV-Takt und Verkehrsmittel zu erhalten. Erfahren Sie außerdem mehr über erfolgreiche Beispiele, die zeigen, wie integrierte Siedlungs- und Verkehrsplanung zur Verkehrswende beitragen können! Sie können sich das kostenlose Whitepaper hier herunterladen: https://lnkd.in/d84aj3P7 #ÖV-Güteklassen #ÖPNV #GIS #GOAT #Erreichbarkeit #TOD

🐐GOAT 3.0: Transforming Urban and Transport Planning in Germany Recently our three-year GOAT 3.0 project successfully concluded, transforming #GOAT from a #walking and #cycling #accessibility tool into a comprehensive open-source planning platform. Developed and maintained by Plan4Better in close collaboration with academic and practice partners, this project highlights the strength of co-creative collaboration in driving innovation. What makes GOAT 3.0 exceptional? The latest version of GOAT introduces powerful features that support diverse planning needs: 🌐 Comprehensive database of POIs and transport networks across Germany and Europe. 🚶🚗 Accessibility analyses for all modes of transport, including public transit and private vehicles. 🔗 Tools for planning intermodal trip chains. 🛠️ A toolbox for applications such as green space planning, public services provisioning, and beyond. These new features are already proving their value in areas such as developing energy district concepts, climate adaptation planning, and crafting local mobility strategies. Stay tuned for more! We’re especially excited to present you analyses powered by GOAT’s advanced capabilities in the upcoming weeks and months: 🚉 Germany wide analysis of access to public transport.  🕒 Evaluations of 15-minute city accessibility indicators.   🌳 Accessibility and availability of green spaces for Germany. 💻 Experience GOAT Yourself! Curious to see how GOAT can transform your planning process? Try it for free: www.plan4better.de/en/goat Collaborative success These achievements wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our incredible project partners: Plan4Better, Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e. V. (IÖR), Prof. Schaller UmweltConsult GmbH, and Münchner VerkehrsVerbund (MVV) We’re deeply grateful to the over 100 users—especially in pilot regions Rhine-Neckar, Munich, Görlitz, and Bonn—who tested and shaped GOAT during its development. Your feedback was invaluable! Special thanks to mFUND We also extend our thanks to the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr) and the visionary #mFUND (mPACT) initiative. Since 2016, mFUND has supported data-driven R&D projects shaping the future of mobility. Learn more at www.mFUND.de. Together, let’s build a future of sustainable and equitable urban planning. Stay tuned for more updates and case studies showcasing GOAT in action!

🔔Jingle Bells🔔 at this year’s office #ChristmasParty at the Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning hit all the right notes! A big shoutout to our incredibly talented colleagues George Liu PhD (trombone) and Aaron Nichols (cello) and soloist soprano Ana R. who filled the room with holiday cheer! To spread some joy and share our vision, we’ve penned some new lyrics for Jingle Bells to celebrate sustainable urban transport: 🚲🎵 Dashing through the streets, On a bike or tram we go, Past the car-filled lanes, Through the snow you know! Ringing every bell, A city built to share, Oh what fun it is to ride Without a car to care! 🎵🚶♂️ Here’s to a Merry Christmas and a greener, cleaner, and more accessible 2025! May your holidays be filled with joy, and your commute be filled with sustainability. 🌟 TUM Accessibility Planning

Intercultural Learning: Universität Tokio x Technische Universität München How can we convince traditional transport planners to integrate inclusion, accessibility, and governance into their approaches? And how can we ensure these concepts are taught to the next generation of civil engineers in universities? Yesterday, Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Büttner and Dr.-Ing. David Duran Rodas had the pleasure of hosting Dr.Eng. Hironori Kato (Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at UTokyo) and Mr. Seiichi Hino (Group Manager of the Institute of Behaviorial Sciences, Tokyo) as part of a shared supervision of a master’s thesis on equity in temporal accessibility. The exchange of ideas was not just insightful but also a reminder of how much we can learn from each other’s local contexts. As we reflect on this collaboration, we are excited to continue building bridges between Tokyo and Munich—sharing experiences, insights, and strategies to make transport planning more equitable and inclusive. Together, we can shape a future where accessibility and inclusion are at the heart of urban mobility. #UTokyo 🤝 #TUM

3rd International Day of Persons with Disabilities (#IDPWD United Nations) Today, we want to highlight the importance of creating accessible and inclusive spaces for all. As part of the InclusiveSpaces HORIZON project, we conducted a drawing exercise with individuals experiencing various mobility impairments, including older adults, caregivers, people with infants, as well as individuals with physical, cognitive, and visual disabilities. The exercise aimed to identify factors associated with (dis-)comfort in urban mobility. The persons were asked to draw and explain situations they face while being mobile in the city. By understanding these variables, we can better assess #accessibility and address the challenges that many people face in navigating cities. These insights are key to designing spaces that truly meet diverse needs. Inclusion requires action—let’s work towards environments that enable equal participation and mobility for everyone. You want to exchange with us on the topic? Reach out to Lea S. Z., David Duran Rodas, and Benjamin Büttner for details. 🖼️ Drawings by people with physical impairments located in European countries.

Recap of the 2nd InclusiveSpaces Consortium meeting in Athens was a key moment to assess progress on the development of five #inclusive tools and technologies for creating #accessible, #climateresilient urban spaces. We are developing the Comfort-based Accessibility Tool (CAT) for people in #vulnerable situations. Our first step was to collect different perceptions of #comfort with drawings in Athens/Penteli, Geneva, Madrid, Larnaka, Hamburg and Budapest. On the second day, partners shared plans for work packages starting in May 2025, followed by a guided visit to Penteli, showcasing the demo site of Greece. Penteli is the study area for various technologies, including CAT which will be developed by Lea S. Z., David Duran Rodas, and Benjamin Büttner at Technische Universität München.