Deliverable 2.3 Understanding and benchmarking the existing travel and destination selection behaviours

The 15-minute city concept aims to provide "enhanced" accessibility to all essential services and daily needs for the entire population through the use of active travel modes, and to improve the sustainability, quality of life, and overall health of the population. The concept is on the agenda of many cities around the world, but there are major knowledge gaps in finding successful and efficient ways to implement the concept outside the urban core. The DREAMS project aims to address these knowledge gaps by investigating how mobility services, mobility hubs and flexible activity hubs (pop-up stores) can contribute to the creation of accessible, sustainable and inclusive 15-minute neighbourhoods in the urban outskirts of six European cities and regions. One of the sub-objectives of the DREAMS project is to provide a thorough understanding of the 15-minute city lifestyles and accessibility needs of different opulation groups in Vienna, Utrecht, Brussels, Budapest, Île-de-France and Munich. This deliverable (D2.3) presents the results of a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the 15mC lifestyles and travel needs of people living in the study areas.
The analysis results show that Utrecht and Munich have the best accessibility for shopping trips, with over 80% of trips completed within 15 minutes in both the city and the Living Lab areas. Île-de-France has the best accessibility for education trips, especially in the urban core, with almost 90% of trips completed within 15 minutes. Budapest has the lowest accessibility for work and shopping trips, especially in the outskirts. While Munich is unique in that work, shopping and leisure accessibility improves in the suburbs, making it an exception to the general trend of urban cores having better accessibility than the outskirts. Moreover, the results indicate a high degree of car dependency in the suburbs for everyday trips and especially for shopping trips, which underlines the need to improve
suburban accessibility to all kinds of essential facilities.