Welcome to KonSULT, the Knowledgebase on Sustainable Urban Land use and Transport.

KonSULT is designed to help policy makers, professionals and interest groups to understand the challenges of achieving sustainability in urban transport, and to identify appropriate policy measures and packages. It also provides detailed information on individual policy measures which will be of relevance to professionals, researchers and students.  It has been developed since 2001 with support from the European Commission, the UK Department for Transport, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, and is regularly updated to reflect the results of recent research.

The current version has been developed under the European Commission’s CH4LLENGE project to help cities identify the most effective policy measures and packages as input to their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans.

It contains three levels of information:

Measure option generator: the Measure Option Generator allows cities quickly to identify those policy measures (or “instruments”) which may be of particular value in their context.  Users specify their context, including their objectives and strategy and the Measure Option Generator provides suggestions at three levels:

1. a list of the instruments contained in the Policy Guidebook (see below) ranked in terms of their potential to contribute to the city’s needs;
2. for a specific instrument chosen by the user, a list of the instruments contained in the Policy Guidebook ranked in terms of their ability to complement that instrument;
3. for a shortlist of up to ten instruments chosen by the user, a list of packages of those measures ranked in terms of their potential to contribute to the city’s needs.

For each suggested policy instrument, a link is provided to the more detailed information on it in the Policy Guidebook, thus enabling the user to assess more fully whether it would be applicable to their needs.  A fuller outline is given in the Introductory Page to the Measure Option Generator.   

Policy Guidebook: a Policy Guidebook provides information on each of the policy instruments available to urban transport planners. It provides a description of the instrument, a first principles assessment of its ability to contribute to a range of objectives, problems and strategies, as described more fully through links to  the Decision-Maker’s Guidebook (see below), and compares that assessment with the results of a series of case studiesA fuller outline is given in the Introductory Page to the Policy Guidebook.

Decision-Makers’ Guidebook: a Decision-Makers’ Guidebook presents the challenges facing those responsible for urban transport policy, offers a logical structure for tackling those challenges, and provides guidance on each stage in that logical structure. In particular it offers a fuller explanation of each of the concepts used in the Policy Guidebook.  It is based on a four year research programme under the European Commission’s City of Tomorrow programme. A fuller outline is given in the Introductory Page to the Decision-Makers’ Guidebook.