MISSUM - Modelling Incentive Schemes for Sustainable Urban Mobility
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Lunds universitet - Institutionen för Teknik och samhälle |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 3 700 000 |
| Project duration | November 2017 - June 2022 |
| Status | Completed |
Important results from the project
The overall aim of MISSUM has been to develop new incentive models for sustainable urban mobility. These models intend to provide municipalities and regions with incentives to, at a faster rate, make economically well-motivated investments. The Swedish urban environment agreements and the Norwegian urban development agreements´ financing models are used as analysis references. Likewise, current cities and regions that received funding have been used as case studies to test different designs of the incentives.
Expected long term effects
There are several reasons why the state should offer co-financing. They are 1) economic effects: positive external effects that reduce emissions, noise, congestion, etc., 2) distributional effects: different actors benefit or suffer, and the incentives can be a way to distribute benefits and costs more fairly; 3) long-term effects: effective policy instruments in the long term can be difficult to prioritize (changed physical planning, for example), and then incentives in the agreements can be linked to actually forcing long-term sustainable planning.
Approach and implementation
MISSUM´s six work packages: (1) Literature: what are incentives and co-financing? (2) Evaluation of models: how do the Norwegian and Swedish agreements differ? (2) Stated Preference-studie: political decision -makers´ views on restrictive measures for private cars. (4) Incentive model: supplementing transport models to better fit efficient and fair state co-financing. (5) Norwegian agreements: how have they worked and what could be improved? (6) Swedish agreements: how have they worked and which principles could apply, what could be improved?