INVOLVE Project

Exchange of experiences
dedicated to the identification and
analysis of good practices

The central issue addressed by the INVOLVE project is how local and regional authorities can increase co-operation with the private sector to extend the use of mobility management. The project aims to improve sustainable transport policies through the exchange of experience and the transfer of good practices between the partners. This will be achieved mainly through a number of Study Visits and Import Workshops. The exact methodology consists of 5 steps:

• Identify Good Practices: the expert partner, Erasmus University Rotterdam, will lead the partners in creating a register of relevant good practices. Partners will use this to select good practices to import.
  
  
• Observe Good Practices: each regional partner will undertake 3 Study Visits to study their chosen good practices. The aim of the visits is to understand how the host has achieved the good practice, and how it can be transferred.
  
  
• Analyse Good Practices: the partners will analyze the visit reports to identify the key Critical Success Factors, and the potential for transfer, of all good practices studied. The partners will use this analysis extensively to (1) draft the good practice methodology (2) test and adopt the good practices, (3) design the Regional Implementation Plan process.
  
  
• Test Good Practices: four pilot projects will serve as laboratories to test the transferability of selected good practices.
  
  
• Adopt Good Practices: this comprises two actions: (1) All regions will hold a workshop (in own-language), where experts from the export-regions will assist the regional stakeholders to import their good practices. (2) The output from this will be a Regional Implementation Plan for each region, to be formally considered by the relevant public authorities no later than Jul-14.