UCAM researchers launch a study to improve mobility in Murcia
Tomorrow, Thursday, the field work of the Chair of Sustainable Mobility and Transport of the Metropolitan Area of Murcia launches the most ambitious survey ever done in the Region.
Mobility is one of the challenges big cities are facing. Reducing the use of private
cars, improving public transport, and facilitating the pedestrianisation of city centres
are the strategic lines of action to achieve less polluted and more sustainable cities.
In this scenario, the city of Murcia and its metropolitan area are undergoing a
transformation process in which important decisions are being taken in terms of
transport and mobility.
For this reason, the UCAM Chair of Mobility and Sustainable Transport of the
Metropolitan Area of Murcia, in collaboration with the public transport companies
Tranvía de Murcia and Transportes de Murcia, starts an Online Survey on Mobility
in the Metropolitan Area of Murcia, tomorrow, Thursday 10 November. The survey
will then be carried out in the other municipalities in the surrounding area, which are
collaborating in the project.
The researchers, together with students collaborating in the project, will be at several
key points in the city to hand out leaflets with information about the study and the QR
code to access the survey, the most ambitious one carried out in the Region of
Murcia in the area of mobility. Approximate completion time is 8 minutes.
The four objectives of this fieldwork are: to understand and analyse user's journeys,
to characterise the particularities that condition the way in which we move every day,
to study the needs and preferences about the new ways of transport and to help plan
new mobility policies. Roberto Liñán, Director of the Chair, hopes that this study will
help ‘promote more sustainable transport and guarantee friendlier and more
accessible mobility for the whole population’.
The project is supported by the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and
the town councils of Murcia, Molina de Segura, Alcantarilla, Lorquí, Alguazas,
Santomera, Ceutí, Beniel, Archena and Las Torres de Cotillas. Previously, in 2020,
the researchers of this chair conducted a study on the impact of the coronavirus
pandemic on transport in the Region of Murcia.