Planning and regulations
There are many regulatory and planning reasons why organisations may get involved in site based mobility management. When applying for planning permission in the UK, it is typical that large new developments will be asked, as a condition of getting that permission, to enter into a contract (a planning obligation) with the local authority to implement measures to reduce the number of people driving to the site. This might include the developer paying for a package of transport solutions related to that site. In addition, it will often be a condition of planning permission that the developer provides infrastructure for walking, cycling and public transport – as well as cars – on the site.
In both the UK and the Netherlands, local authorities use maximum parking standards to limit the number of parking spaces provided in a development, which often means that mobility management solutions are needed to keep the site accessible. See for example:
Amsterdam Southern Business Areas Royal Devon and Exeter Hospitals
Also in the Netherlands as well as the UK, more and more business parks are being developed with the concept of "park management", where occupiers pay a management charge – and more and more examples of these give a portion of the management charge to transport and mobility management. See the website of the EU-project Grensverleggend Parkmanagement (in Dutch) for examples in the Netherlands and Vlaanderen. Also the brochure 'Parkmanagement en mobiliteit' (in Dutch) published by KpVV may be very helpful to integrate mobility management within park management.
Within OPTIMUM², Goudse Poort Business Park serves as a good example of how to link the travel facility point to park management.
Finally, in the Netherlands it is likely that many organisations will be required to implement mobility management under the new "Points System" that has been devised to enforce the law on Environmental Permits more strictly. Organisations (new and existing) will have to show what they are doing to reduce the impacts of travel to and from their sites, in order to be granted an environmental permit. For more information, see InfoMil (in Dutch).
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