Sustainable Urban Mobility in Urban Planning. Case of Poland

The paper will be focused on the strategic and conceptual planning of sustainable mobility in Polish cities. It will be outlined how the cities prepare the transformation into sustainable mobility by developing the planning documents. The documents like Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans and plans for development of public transport will be analysed. Also the cities’ general development strategies will be examined to check what is the status of implementation of the instruments of sustainable mobility in relation to other important issues in general city development. Another point of analysis will be sectoral strategies of cities, like cycling policy, parking policy, strategies for developing electromobility and others. These documents will be analysed in terms of general concepts and priorities defined in the cities. Furthermore the spatial planning documents will be analysed in terms of the land-use policies and how the cities prepare their space for the implementation of elements of sustainable mobility (road network, cycling paths, number of parking lots around newly built buildings – minimum and maximum requirements, public transport infrastructure). The research was made in 20 biggest Polish cities in terms of number of residents in the period of 2023-2025. Over a hundred documents like SUMPs, sectoral strategies and city resolutions were analysed. The documents were compared concerning their assumptions, priorities, and projected solutions in different elements of sustainable mobility. Their state of affairs and main challenges in the cities will be compared, and proposed solutions in the elements of sustainable mobility system: development of public transport, parking solutions, cycling infrastructure and pedestrian zones. Separate points of analysis will be the cooperation of cities with their neighbour municipalities and digitalisation of sustainable mobility. The documents’ analysis was backed up with more than 80 interviews with persons responsible for mobility in the cities.