Alcantara, M.N.P.A
6. Conclusions
Analyzing strategic documents through an in-depth methodology framework has enabled this thesis to address the dynamic urban complexities that manifest within the challenges of mobility planning processes. In addition, this research has highlighted the importance of strategic planning documents as an essential and powerful tool in the urban planning context
which gathers decision-making elements to guide but should not limit human
behaviors
fostering paradigms shift if well planned and adopted. Therefore, to answer
the research question, Vienna, Brussels, Budapest, Rome, and Lisbon, have been selected as case studies to have their mobility plans scrutinized based on the SUMP guidelines to unfold to what extent they could be considered SUMPs. Further, exploring the SUMP 12 Steps
through the 32 SUMP Activities
and its
Principles throughout the case studies has allowed the identification of strengths, weaknesses, and challenges associated with the mobility planning processes. As a result, the research findings have further supported the discussion behind the paradigm shift from TTP toward SUMPing
that although it started at the end of the 20th century, this
thesis has revealed that it is still happening nowadays toward its future consolidation. Thus, the importance of an integrated approach, by all means, has been reinstated throughout this entire work to foster sustainable urban development and unfolded the necessity to consider planning and practices into mobility paradigm transitions. As a result, all thesis research goals have been fulfilled, and the research question has been answered. Nevertheless, the author would like to uncover a final critical and very needed point as an additional brief contribution to the findings of this thesis. In general, to a certain extent, sustainable advances in planning and some practices have been implemented by EU capital cities, which for sure deserves some celebrations. However, as tackled in the literature review, the
widely fostered by the EU in the past years, which
undoubtedly has been achieving considerable progress in mobility planning and practices never accomplished before
is not enough to fully solve current and future mobility
challenges to all their extents. Whereas it does not address important topics that, in one way or another, impact and is also affected by mobility forms and patterns, such as but Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans [SUMPs] and the transition behind planning paradigms 127
