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YRAM Monitoring Guidance: A User Manual for Year-Round Active Mobility Monitoring

Jacek Oskarbski, Konrad Biszko, Daniel Kaszubowski · 2024

Summary

The YRAM Monitoring Guidance is a comprehensive methodological manual developed within the BATS project to help local authorities monitor year-round active mobility and evaluate the effectiveness of walking and cycling interventions. It complements the BATS Diagnostics-Interventions Toolkit by providing a structured approach to defining performance indicators, identifying data requirements, collecting and managing information, analysing results and refining interventions over time. A central feature is its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) selection framework, which considers the relevance of indicators to local conditions, transport management, infrastructure and maintenance, as well as their sensitivity to weather and lighting. Two alternative indicator selection methods are presented, including an approach specifically organised around weather- and lighting-dependent indicators. This helps municipalities design monitoring systems that account for seasonal variation rather than evaluating active mobility measures only under favourable conditions. The manual describes a monitoring process covering intervention definition, KPI selection, data acquisition and management, indicator calculation, analysis, scheduling and iterative improvement. It provides recommendations for using existing municipal datasets, GIS information, transport models, surveys and other data sources, including approaches to identifying data gaps, combining datasets and selecting feasible alternatives when information is unavailable. Supporting materials include a structured indicator selection table, findings from surveys of partner cities, data collection recommendations and monitoring process diagrams. A local experiment in Gdynia, Poland, is used to illustrate the application of the guidance. The publication is particularly valuable for transport planners, mobility managers and public authorities seeking to establish evidence-based monitoring systems, compare intervention outcomes under different seasonal conditions and use evaluation results to support future year-round active mobility policies and investments.

Topics

Data & Monitoring Policy, Strategy & Governance

Target audience

Politicians Urban planners Traffic planners

Mode

Walking Cycling Wheeling

Conditions

Year-round Winter Cold Dark

Countries