VDA/FAT research study "FOMOS - Sustainable and climate-neutral cities"

It is precisely in the next 4-5 years that the decisive course must be set to transform passenger and commercial transport in the direction of climate-neutral urban development: technologically, economically, politically, ecologically and socially. To this end, this research study develops holistic transformation pathways in scenarios, takes a closer look at promising options for action, and identifies boundary conditions and measures that link the desirable scenarios to reality. The need for research here is not so much on individual "white spots" but rather on the systemic interrelationships and chains of effects in the transformation of mobility in cities and regions in the coming decades. The research study can close a crucial gap that still exists today in the discussions between economic, municipal as well as innovation policy interests and national climate protection goals. Up to now, there has been no consistent master plan for mobility in Germany that shows the content-related and, above all, future-oriented transformation of passenger and commercial transport at the level of cities and regions in the direction of climate neutrality. In this respect, the combined consideration of technological possibilities on the part of the mobility industry and organizational possibilities for action on the part of municipalities is new.

The following sub-goals of particular importance:

1. Vision for climate-neutral mobility in cities and regions.
2. Identification of new fields of action and effects in the urban sector
3. Impulses for national innovation policy (federal government-municipalities-business)
4. Bringing about pioneering models and implementation measures
5. Development of own strategies and instruments
6. Derivation of key sustainability impacts of the scenarios developed