Funded by Research Ireland through the Sustainable Communities National Challenge Fund, the CONUNDRUM project aims to understand mobility issues in Irish towns and to reimagine how we could achieve more sustainable transport and mobility outside of our cities. Our purpose is to support more resilient urban areas and sustainable communities by enabling government, citizens and enterprise to work more effectively together. For communities without significant public transport infrastructure or financial resources to upgrade to private electric vehicles, a push to decarbonise mobility has the potential to further marginalise our most vulnerable groups particularly in smaller towns with less developed infrastructure. As such, while decarbonisation may be the ultimate policy objective, achieving just transitions to more sustainable mobility is key to meeting wide-spanning policy goals.
The CONUNDRUM project aims to address these participatory, knowledge and capability challenges through:
- Developing a working process that empowers communities to identify local needs while enabling better utilisation of existing assets;
- The production, through co-creation methods, of community-led mobility strategies that respond in a place-based way to national and international climate challenges and goals alongside greater local buy-in to effect meaningful change;
- A set of actions and the development of tools that simultaneously respond to government commitments, policy frameworks and address local community needs.
Our animation video below describes some more about our project, our process and its potential impact!
