Planning sustainable urban mobility

On 14 April, representative of Kutaisi in Georgia and an expert Dr. Haris Piplas met virtually to discuss Kutaisi’s project of SUMP development for their city.

The session focused on several vital aspects in the process of conducting a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan for Kutaisi, these are:

• Preliminary preparation phase, during which vison and plan should be envisaged, final working group should be identified and key messages for citizen participation should be drafted;
• Analysis of the current mobility and urban development situation in the city should be prepared;
• Scenarios of SUMP implementation should be identified.

Additionally, Dr. Haris Piplas stressed the importance of expertise mobilization as city will need to gather and unfortunately due to lack of data develope a lot of preliminary documents, before jumping into the implementation phase.