1170 | 719 | Nova Gorica, Slovenia – scenario planning for uncertainty as a part of the SUMP development process in a border region. | Luka Mladenovic and Tom Rye
Nova Gorica is a mid-sized city on the western edge of Slovenia, divided from its Italian counterpart Gorizia by a border that, since Slovenia joined Schengen in 2008, has disappeared. Both cities now work together on common vision and initiatives, including sustainable mobility planning. Administratively the two cities remain separate, planning for their common future in two different systems, but coordinating their vision and strategies. _x000D_
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Nova Gorica has a long tradition of sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP). The city developed its first transport strategy in 2011, a regional cross-border SUMP in 2015 and a second local SUMP in 2017. Currently preparation is underway for a new generation of the document, which should be developed in 2023/24. _x000D_
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This paper describes the cross-border collaboration that has taken place to date in sustainable urban mobility planning in the city. It then goes on to explain the process of the visioning and scenario-development exercise that took place for the new SUMP, as a part of the Urban Europe project Triple Access Planning for Uncertainty www.tapforuncertainty.eu. This was carried out as a set of two online workshops in November and December 2022. Experts from different departments of the city administration took part, as well as other stakeholders involved in the development of previous SUMPs._x000D_
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The planning exercise in Nova Gorica helped local planners see a much wider picture of possible futures. Scenario development, which was already part of the existing methodology but previously used only as a minor task without much influence on SUMP development, was shown as a useful tool that can help with the decision-making process regarding the measures and activities that the SUMP proposes, in the context of different possible futures._x000D_
Luka Mladenovic and Tom Rye
Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia
ID Abstract: 719