The project
This tool was developed as part of the SASIM research project, one of 14 projects in the first implementation phase of the Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions (MCube). MCube is a future-oriented cluster funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which aims to establish sustainable and transformative mobility innovations.
The aim of the project is to present the true costs of urban transport transparently and communicate them clearly. It seeks to raise awareness of the costs of air pollution, climate damage, accidents, congestion, land use, fragmentation and noise caused by mobility. In this way, sustainable and equitable mobility decisions are to be promoted.
The web app
The current status quo is that the costs arising from our mobility behaviour are not distributed fairly. At present, only the private, internal costs of mobility are generally taken into account, such as fuel costs, ticket prices or repair costs. Social, external costs – such as accident, noise or environmental costs – are, however, borne by the general public. As a result, people who incur high external costs through their mobility behaviour contribute to the same extent as those who incur low costs.
The freely available online tool evaluates individual route queries depending on the chosen mode of transport. Currently, the web app calculates and evaluates routes exclusively within the Munich metropolitan region.
The MobiScore
The assessment in this tool takes into account the costs of air pollution, climate damage, accidents, congestion, land use, fragmentation and noise. For each enquiry, these costs are clearly presented for the selected modes of transport using the MobiScore.
- The MobiScore assesses the true costs of individual mobility, thereby raising awareness of costs that were previously ‘invisible’.
- It provides an indicator of how fair different modes of transport are in comparison on a specific route.
Who is behind the MobiScore?
The MobiScore was developed as part of the SASIM research project by an interdisciplinary team comprising five departments at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Munich Transport and Tariff Association (MVV). The project’s focus is on making the full costs of mobility transparent and presenting them in a comparable manner.
