Car journeys to drop by 11 percent in Vienna: How it will work

More than a quarter of all trips in Vienna are made by car. This is shown by the statistics of the annual sample segment – that is, the breakdown of the means of transport used. The city’s goal is to reduce car trips. And overall 11 percent up to the year 2030 (See diagram below).

A plan the Greens no longer believe in. They made an urgent request in the local council meeting held today on Wednesday Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ). “For the third year in a row, there has been no progress in reducing car traffic,” it said. Because the stock in the last three years Motorized personal transport I am Sample split 26 percent remained unchanged.

2025 target is unlikely to be met

The first interim target is the end of next year. only 20 percent There should be a share of car traffic 2025 Be. This goal is likely to be achieved Transport analyst Ulrich Leth from TU Vienna No more. “I can’t imagine that these developments could achieve this,” he says. Although 365-euro-tickets For public transport in 2012, des Detailed parking stickers And some lighthouse projects like that Mariahilfer Street The model split has changed little in more than a decade.

The last major improvement was between 2010 and 2011. Even then, the proportion of drivers fell by only two percentage points. Since then it has been consistently around 26 to 27 percent.

“In Vienna they try it Drag actions. You pay attention to them Improving services for public transport and cyclists. But that’s only one side,” says Leth. You need at least that strength Abundance measures, i.e. actions that achieve desired behavior by forcing or preventing it. “It’s very tempting to take a car for multiple trips in Vienna,” Leth says.

In particular, the expert says, parking should become more expensive. With a nationwide parking sticker you can park in a residential area for just 120 euros a year. This had the positive effect of fewer passengers from other federal states standing in public parking lots in Vienna. “Now there are more cars with Vienna license plates,” Leth says.

Redesign the empty areas

The city failed to redesign the parking spaces made available by the parking lot and use them differently than sidewalks. “It must have happened quickly then. Now the effect the parking sticker might have had has completely evaporated.

But it is not too late. If you still want to meet the 2030 target, you have to OversupplyIt currently has drivers in Vienna, says Leth. The recipe for this is smaller parking lots, fewer and more expensive parking spaces, and fewer lanes.

“Complaining About Successes”

Similar demands can be found in the Greens’ programme. The city’s suburbs have an expansion plan for public transport, car-free school fronts and more attractive traffic light grids.

When asked by KURIER, the SPÖ did not want to be accused of failure. Vienna currently invests three times more in expanding public transport than in roads. Tram and subway expansion is in full swing, and significantly more is now being invested in cycle routes than under the green mandate. “Having been in charge of the transport department for ten years, he complained about the efforts and successes of the red-pink city government, leaving a mess in many areas,” he says. Erich Valentine, Chairman of the Mobility Committee at the Local Council (SPÖ)..

An estimate worth looking at the statistics: In the ten years that the Greens have been in the city government, the proportion of private motor vehicle traffic in Vienna has decreased by 4 percent. 31 to 27.