Drafting of the new Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and updating of the General Urban Traffic Plan for the city of Udine
After a tender process, TRTIngegneria, in partnership with ISFORT Istituto Superiore di Formazione e Ricerca per i Trasporti, Ambiente Italia and GVG Engineering, was selected by the Municipality of Udine to draft the city’s first Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) and update its General Urban Traffic Plan (PGTU).
With regard to the PUMS, the working group’s activities are structured according to the following methodological steps, in line with the 2019 guidelines of the Ministry of Transport and the new Regulation (EU) 2024/1679 (the city of Udine is a TEN-T urban node):
- reconstruction of the knowledge framework relating to the settlement, economic and mobility system of Udine and the 17 neighbouring municipalities;
- implementation of ad hoc surveys and procedures for acquiring descriptive data on mobility demand (vehicular, public transport, cycling);
- identification of strengths and weaknesses (SWOT), objectives, targets and strategies of the Plan;
- detailed outline of the alternative scenarios that make up the Plan;
- evaluation of scenarios through the application of a multimodal transport model (VISUM);
- assessment of environmental sustainability through the application of the SEA procedure;
- calculation of MIT/EU indicators and estimation of investment costs.
All phases are accompanied by a broad and structured communication and participation campaign, which involves citizens and stakeholders through public meetings, technical round tables, focus groups and online questionnaires.
The PGTU is developed on the basis of the objectives and measures defined in the short-term scenario of the PUMS, detailing the characteristics and feasibility of the individual actions.
During the drafting of the PGTU, a series of urban traffic nodes are subject to detailed assessment through the application of a micro-dynamic simulation model (VISSIM) integrated with the multimodal model developed for the PUMS.