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6. Conclusions

6. Conclusions

English, The Orientation Phase). As a result, it could be said that GM has ensured political and institutional ownership.

Figure 42. ctors and Stakeholders that contributed to the vision development during the April 2017 forum. Source: Bruxelles Mobilité (2020b) Although GM managed to have a clear picture of strengths, weaknesses, and possible future improvements based on its previous planning practices, the financial resources that were available for its plan development have not been clear. Likewise, the evaluation of human capacities was also unclear. Hence, the lack of information could compromise the success of the plan.

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Step 2 determine planning framework: GM has defined its geographic scope by the Brussels-Capital Region. In addition, GM has also linked with other planning processes, i.e. the (PCM in English, the Municipal Mobility Plans); the PRDD; the (PRAS in English, the Regional Land Use Plan); the (PAD PRAS in English, the Master Development Plans); the (in English, the Regional Urban Planning Regulations); the (PRPS in English, the Regional Parking Policy Plan); the (PACS in English, the Municipal Parking Action Plans); the (in English, the Noise Plan); the -Climat- (in English, the Air-Climate-Energy Plan); the (in English, the Innovation Plan); the (in English,

the Go4Brussels 2030 Strategy); and the (PGSP in English, Global Safety and Prevention Plan). Hence, Brussels has strengthened GM and the other plans by connecting them and reinforcing the holistic mobility approach.

In addition, GM has also presented its plan development phases, which, apart from Phase exploratoire followed by that have already been mentioned in Step 1, there were also (in English, The Emergence Phase), (in English, The Convergence Phase), (in English, The Consolidation Phase), and lastly, before its final approval by the government, (in English, The Public Inquiry). Thus, GM is a result of a participatory process, which received external support from the Smarteam consortium an fostering four main principles, i.e., transparency, transversality, co-construction, and appropriation. Although it mentioned that its process happened from September 2016 until its approval in march 2020, it was unclear if the development framework has happened as planned or if some delays and changes have influenced its path.

Step 3 analyze mobility situation: GM has presented a subchapter called (in English, An analytical approach) which has shown an overview of available data and the cooperation with their owners. For instance, it mentioned the web portal - (in English, Brussels Mobility Data), which contains many publications and monitors various indicators, and the (RIE in English, The Environmental Impact Report), which analyzes indepth the current situation and the impacts of the mobility plans on many sectors of the Region. Moreover, GM has displayed another subchapter called (in English, Learning from previous mobility plans), which has addressed the current situation of crucial mobility and transport developments. Further, it has shown the positive progress of the measures implemented in the Iris II Plan the previous plan. In addition, GM has also shared what needs to be improved in a new plan. For instance, it has been mentioned that the ambitions expressed in the previous plan and capacities. Moreover, according to the evaluation carried out during the GM process, a

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