Claus Köllinger

Edited on 17/05/2023

Validated expert

Claus Köllinger

  • Austria

  • German, English, Swedish
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Available for Lead Expert role and Ad-hoc expertise missions

Validated Expert info

Expert can perform the Lead expert role and Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

  1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
  2. Thematic expertise:
    > Mobility
  3. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
    > Integrated and participatory design of strategies

Summary

Claus is a spatial planner by education. Over the past 20 years, he engaged mostly to support cities in their strive to turnaround today’s traffic regimes in favour of developing a sustainable urban mobility reality. Claus covers the full range of mobility planning and gives special emphasis on a push and pull approach that reduces the role of conventional motorised traffic like by cars to the necessary and increases options and attractiveness of sustainable modes like walking, cycling, public transport, micromobility and shared mobility solutions. He addresses specific challenging topics like the use of public space like in parking management, as well as perceptions, habits, and behavioural patterns of mobility users. His ambition is to support cities to become places of a high quality of life with public space designed for people and their wellbeing in the first place. Claus provides expertise in organising and running a participatory and integrated planning process to produce action plans that meet stakeholder needs and expectations and are implementation ready at the stage of their adoption. Thanks to his role as Lead Expert in the URBACT III Action Planning Networks CityMobilNet and Space4People, Claus can support cities on their road to improve local planning processes and gain new capacities in exchange and learning with their peer cities.

Related URBACT activities

  • Walk'n'Roll icon - roll over

    Mobility

    Discover a series of booklets, guidance and inspiration to tackle challenges linked to urban mobility and improve public spaces. Building from the experience from the past round of Action Planning Networks, URBACT brings to you the Walk'n'Roll initiative!

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  • CityMobilNet

    Cities that suffer from congestion, emission loads, social exclusion and, lastly decrease of the quality of life, have gathered in this Action Planning network. The road they have taken to tackle these challenges was the local adoption of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP), a concept for mobility planning that revolutionises traditional planning structures by placing people’s needs, integrated thinking and sustainablility at the centre of future developments. By sharing and addressing challenges of their mobility reality, the cities created a common vision towards identifying suitable measures and actions for the coming years and improving the competencies of all involved stakeholders.

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  • Space4People

    Space4People dealt with public space use in its cities and worked with its main use function: transport. Our focus was on walkability, quality of stay, mix of functions to achieve attractive public space for diverse user groups and a sustainable urban mobility scheme supporting such public spaces. Space4People has placed a user-centric approach at the core of its work that to assessed qualities and deficiencies, developed future visions and tested possible solutions to public space in our cities.

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Articles

  • URBACT Walk'n'Roll guidebook

    Das URBACT Walk’n’Roll Cities Guidebook für Innovationen im öffentlichen Raum & Mobilität ist da!

    Eine der größten Herausforderungen für viele Städte in Europa liegt in der eigenen Stadtstruktur. Denn gemäß dem Prinzip der räumlichen Trennung von

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