Home-delivered social services — home visits, meal deliveries, transport for people with disabilities — are almost never mentioned in a city’s official mobility plans. They are small-scale, highly individualised trips, and responsibility for them is often split between social services and transport departments, so they end up treated as an operational detail rather than a planning priority.
Green LaMiS’s Integrated Green Mobility Plans (Deliverable D.3.2.1) set out to change that, with a practical four-step method: identifying home care mobility needs through a factual baseline, mapping those needs against the structure of each city’s existing mobility plan, translating the project’s results into recommendations tailored to that plan, and developing city-specific integration notes ready to feed into future planning updates.
The approach was tailored to each territory’s starting point: in Szombathely, where a mobility plan already exists, integration is planned for its next revision cycle; in Bergamo, home care mobility will be linked to the city’s existing plans for a diesel-free fleet by 2030; in Klis, which has no formal mobility plan yet, the recommendations point to adding dedicated mobility objectives to the city’s broader sustainability strategy. Three different starting points, one shared ambition: making sure the mobility of care is finally counted as part of the mobility of the city.