Prospering communities in suburban areas with highly frequented commercial areas are faced with the task of reinventing their companies as an attractive working world for the digital age. At the same time, individual mobility patterns and the demands on routes to and from work are changing. These changes represent significant potential for a sustainable mobility system. Specifically, this not only includes commuting flows and internal company mobility concepts, but goes far beyond that to develop the future of mobility closely with the ideas of future work and to think further spatially. For this task, many actors have to coordinate their work: companies, municipalities, politics, transport companies, science and practice. Time to actively shape the future of mobility together - to get to work together! The aim of the 2035 vision of the future is to work together with the city administration of the city of Burgwedel and the companies based there to find viable solutions not only for individual companies, but options for the entire city and its residents.

Project start and end:    August 1st, 2021 – June 30th, 2022

Funding:                               Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and
                                                Consumer Protection (BMUV), Future – Environment–Society (ZUG) gGmbH

Project website:               https://mobil-ans-werk.de

Under the slogan “Together, infrastructure, mobility culture” the project team aimed to rethink mobility together with the people in Burgwedel. Numerous measures were planned and implemented to achieve this by the end of 2024. The aim was to work together with the Burgwedel city administration and the companies based there as well as the population to develop viable solutions for the entire city and its residents.
The discussion process that has already been initiated in a predecessor project (see below) now began. Narratives of the future were developed, tested and continued in concrete projects. In addition to certain construction measures, the innovative strength lay in integrating companies as powerful partners for the topic of mobility in the small community. The contacts that had already been made and the exchange within the network ensured successful implementation and highlighted the direct benefit for the target group through their cooperation. Planned work packages optimized life and work processes on site, synergistically combining new ideas about mobility with profitable solutions. The communication process concluded with the #Summer of Mobility, a real-world laboratory in the city of Burgwedel lasting several weeks in the summer of 2024.

The project was initially headed by Prof. Dr. Meike Levin-Keitel. When Meike Levin-Keitel followed the call to the University of Vienna, chair for Spatial Research and Spatial Planning, MoveMe was headed by Joachim Scheiner.

Project start and end:    January 1st, 2023 – December 31st, 2024

Funding:                              Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer
                                               Protection (BMUV), Future – Environment –Society (ZUG) gGmbH

Project website:               https://mobil-ans-werk.de/

Cooperation partner:     Stadt Burgwedel, Bauverwaltung und Wirtschaftsförderung
                                               Klimaschutzagentur Region Hannover
                                               plan zwei, Hannover

Contact:                             Prof. Dr. Joachim Scheiner,
                                              joachim.scheiner@tu-dortmund.de 
                                              Phone ++49 / (0) 231 755 4822