Neue Mobilität Paderborn
Despite the goal of reducing emissions to protect the environment, both people's mobility and useful energy requirements are steadily increasing in Germany. This leads to a variety of problems, particularly in inner cities, such as poor air quality, noise and traffic chaos. However, life in the countryside also offers no alternative for many people due to a lack of mobility options and the associated reduced social participation.
To solve these ambivalences, Neue Mobilität Paderborn combines the areas of digitalization, sustainable energy management, vehicle technology and social dimensions of individualized, networked autonomous mobility offers into a holistic concept in an approach that is unique in Germany.
Derived from current findings in mobility research and vehicle technology, a mobility approach was developed that envisages cost-effective and energy-efficient vehicles (cabs) that, starting from individual starting points ("first mile"), combine to form convoys for longer distances and, in turn, fan out to individual destinations in the target region ("last mile"). In the context of regenerative energy production, digital transformation and changing mobility requirements, this is intended to enable a new form of flexible, comfortable and climate-neutral transport for people and goods that closes the gap between public transport and motorized individual transport (MIV).
The initiative connects more than 70 companies, municipalities, districts, the University of Paderborn and other research institutions with the common goal of establishing an experimental space to link the necessary change in transportation in a rurally structured region with the energy turnaround and to transfer it from laboratory and development contexts into practice. Social science project support addresses the interaction of mobility practices with the various spatial and social contexts, among other things through mobility and acceptance analyses. Thus, the mobility offers meet the individual needs of the users and lead to a high acceptance in society.