From Insecure Parking Garages to Vibrant Mobility Hubs

Purpose and goal:

The project´s objective is to investigate how unsafe parking facilities can be converted into safe mobility houses that invite neighborhood communities and support sustainable travel habits for different population groups (different backgrounds, gender and age). The purpose of the project is to increase knowledge about how the design affects safety and well-being in and around facilities for parking and mobility, and how this knowledge can be used to ensure that different population groups feel safe, invited and inspired to use new solutions and travel more sustainably.

Expected results and effects:

The project is expected to result in knowledge about what creates insecurity in and around different types of parking garages and what contributes to a better experience of shared mobility facilities as well as which measures increase safety and promote the experience and use of shared mobility facilities. The project is expected to result in recommendations and design concepts with principles for how common types of parking garages can be converted into inclusive mobility houses in a way that promotes the experience of the environment and the use of the mobility services.

Approach and implementation:

Selection of parking facilities for case studies is carried out in consultation with the housing companies. The selection should reflect different types of facilities that are common in areas from the 1950-70 century. Analysis of each location is done in dialogue with residents, managers and property owners through site visits and focus groups.

With support of research into people´s experiences and behaviors and completed case studies, general recommendations and design concepts are drawn up as support for the conversion of various types of parking garages into mobility houses.