In the three-year Interreg project “AMIGO” (Integrating Active Personal Mobility into Organizations’ Health Programs), measures for active commuter mobility are being developed, tested in the form of experiments in the participating pilot companies and analyzed afterwards.
Target
- Shifting commuting to climate-friendly mobility
- Improving the health of employees and the overall population
- Improved institutional cooperation in the project area
- Traffic infrastructure relief
- Improved quality of life through reduced air and noise emissions
- Region and companies become more attractive for skilled workers
| Overall project management |
Energy Institute Vorarlberg in close cooperation |
| Project partner |
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| Project period | 01.06.2019 – 31.12.2022 |
| Total budget | EUR 493.080 |
Challenge: Healthy commute
Occupational health management programs are part of the standard offering in many companies. In addition to company preventive care, this also includes sports offerings such as an in-house gym, etc. Existing health programs hardly take into account the promotion of active mobility on the way to work. At the same time, road connections in the Alpenrhein-Bodensee-Hochrhein region reach their capacity limits at peak commuting times. On the one hand, this impairs accessibility in passenger and freight traffic. On the other hand, it also worsens the quality of life due to traffic noise and pollutant emissions. Analyses show that around 70% of employees live no more than 15 kilometers from their workplace. Yet only 10% of commuters walk or ride a bicycle/e-bike.
Motivating people to switch through experiments
Together with committed pilot companies, experiments are being developed and their effectiveness tested in practice. In this way, it may be possible to motivate commuters to switch to walking, cycling, buses and trains, and carpooling for fitness reasons. The Advisory Board, which consists of experts in health research, mobility management and behavioral economics, provides scientific support. With the support of the project partners and the Advisory Board, nine pilot companies are developing solutions for linking mobility and health management. In addition, the project partners are analyzing the areas of workplace mobility management (BMM) and workplace health promotion (WHP) on an institutional level and are making political and systemic recommendations for improvement.
Further informations on the programm can be found here
