NUMIC 2.0
The NUMIC 2.0 project - New Urban Mobility Awareness in Chemnitz - researched citizen participation in transport planning. Improved participation promises a new exchange between citizens and administration in planning and increases sustainable mobility awareness. To this end, new formats (such as virtual reality technologies) were trialled in Chemnitz. The project aimed to develop recommendations for participation for Chemnitz and interested municipalities.
The project was carried out by Chemnitz University of Technology and the City of Chemnitz. In practical terms, the aim was to work on participations centred around future transport projects. The scientific side analysed how citizen participation works. To identify this, the participation processes were varied and evaluated in four decisive factors:
- Frame of reference & level of participation
- Involvement of different groups of people and stakeholders
- Time of participation
- Potential of digital support formats for citizen participation.
NUMIC 2.0 also utilised and tried out various communication channels to discuss sustainable mobility in Chemnitz.
As an overarching community of citizens, the urban public with its various groups of people and stakeholders was broadly informed with the help of communication measures analogous to NUMIC on the one hand, and activated for transformation processes in a concrete and target group-specific manner on the other.
NUMIC 2.0 continued and strengthened the cooperation between the city of Chemnitz and Chemnitz University of Technology from the previous NUMIC project.
The project ran from 1 December 2022 to 30 May 2025 and was funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)'s "Socio-ecological Research" funding priority.
Nevoigtstraße public participation
In April 2023, the public participation on Nevoigtstraße took place. The aim of the participation was to create a safe traffic situation for all participants together with the citizens of Nevoigtstraße.
Shared space zoo
An online information event was held on the redesign of the traffic areas around the zoo, which presented various planning options for traffic calming.
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Concordia Park
There have already been several public consultations on the redesign of the basketball court in Konkordiapark.
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Citizens' dialogue on the flush railway track
The Transport and Civil Engineering Office, together with CVAG and the NUMIC project team, invited all interested parties to the event "Using the road together - public dialogue on a flush railway line" on 13 June 2024.
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Results
Manual
Similar to the previous NUMIC project, all results and experiences with a strong focus on practical implications will be summarised in a freely accessible online publication at the end of the project, which will be available for download in the near future via Chemnitz University of Technology's project partner, the Chair of Ergonomics and Innovation Management.
Some of the findings and recommendations for action were jointly presented and discussed with interested parties from science and (municipal) practice in the form of short presentations and workshops during the final event of NUMIC 2.0 on 20 March 2025. The resulting talks, discussions and feedback were used to make adaptations and additions to the previous recommendations for action.
Closing event
On 20 March 2025, the "NUMIC 2.0" project team presented and discussed its experiences and results with around 25 interested experts from academia and (municipal) practice. The event not only ran under the promising title "Carrying out successful participations in urban and transport planning", but was also a complete success all round, as the response from participants showed.
The event kicked off with a welcome from the Mayor for Urban Development and Construction of the City of Chemnitz. This was followed by a brief presentation of the core results of the respective project partners: starting with the City of Chemnitz on its "Experiences from the implementation of urban participation projects", followed by the project partners from Chemnitz University of Technology with the Chair of Labour Science and Innovation Management under the title "Innovation meets participation", the General and Occupational Psychology Research Group on the "Results on the effectiveness of participation processes in transport planning" and the Junior Professorship of Sociology with a focus on technology on "Participation as a network".
This was followed by four in-depth workshops:
- Expectation management in the context of citizen participation, administration and politics (City of Chemnitz)
- How can the evaluation of participation processes succeed? A contribution from a research perspective with practical guidelines (TU Chemnitz)
- Virtual reality meets participation, from planning to evaluation (TU Chemnitz)
- "Hard-to-reach population groups" - What are the causes and what are the solutions for inclusion in participation processes? (TU Chemnitz)
Detailed information, results and materials are freely available here:
- Programme
- Presentation slides
- Results from the workshops:
- Expectation management in the context of citizen participation, administration and politics
- How can the evaluation of participation processes succeed? A contribution from the perspective of research with practical guidelines including
- Virtual reality meets participation, from planning to evaluation
- "Hard-to-reach population groups" - What are the causes and what solutions are there for involving them in participation processes?
The project team was able to take away numerous impulses at various levels and incorporate them into the handbook, among other things.
Explanatory video
The approx. 3-minute animated explanatory video from the NUMIC 2.0 research project provides a basic, brief and concise description of the concepts of public participation and transport planning and how they interact. It also provides key findings and lessons learnt to date from the perspective of municipal practice and research.
Explanatory video
The approx. 3-minute animated explanatory video from the NUMIC 2.0 research project provides a basic, brief and concise description of the concepts of public participation and transport planning and how they interact. It also provides key findings and lessons learnt to date from the perspective of municipal practice and research.