Abstract

In the interplay of global megatrends, we are currently experiencing the reinvention of mobility. Ecological risks, the growing scarcity of space and new digital technological possibilities are creating a rapidly changing market dynamic in the area of "new mobility". The dynamic, disruptive, contingent - and therefore risky for Germany and its mobility industry as a whole - global transformation of mobility is now encountering a longstanding regional transformation dynamic and specific socio-economic path dependencies in NRW, particularly in the Ruhr region, especially from the fossil fuel industry. the sense of justice of the people affected, it is important to turn the "transformation by disaster" into a "transformation by design". NRW could therefore also become a testing ground and regional innovation laboratory for successful sustainability transformations throughout Germany and Europe.1 The key to regional considerations and scenarios lies in their immediacy, concreteness and local realisability. Problems, analyses and actors are closely linked in a quasi-neighbourly mindset of the region. In other words: Transformation takes place locally and in the region. And it is only there that it can lead to new participatory arrangements between local and regional politics and civil society. With special consideration © IZT / Kerstin Jana Kater Prof Dr Stephan Rammler is Scientific Director of the IZT - Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment. The mobility expert is the author of the books "Volk ohne Wagen" and "Schubumkehr". He has held a professorship for Transportation Design & Social Sciences at the HBK Braunschweig since 2002. On this basis, the aim of this policy paper is to develop concise recommendations for action for a socially just, ecologically successful, economically effective and affordable mobility transition in North Rhine-Westphalia. To this end, the NRW-specific analysis of the regional status quo is embedded in global development dynamics, which also have a strong impact on NRW and the Ruhr region today and in the future.

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Energy, climate and infrastructure