The project entitled "IMPULS 2005-Integrated Mobility Planning, Utilization, Management, and Services for New Community Transport in the Region by 2005" has been part of the "Personennahverkehr für die Region"-research program established by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The objective of IMPULS 2005 was to develop an integrated system of rural community transport. The area under study comprises the countries of Barnim, Oberhavel, and Uckermark, which lie northeast of Berlin in the federal state of Brandenburg. The project focused on a wide range of issues, including the application of information and communication technologies, the sustained use of resources, and the creation of new forms of community transport based on modern automotive concepts and operator models. The tasks of managing and planning the new transport system should be assumed by an integrated regional mobility and planning service (RMD).
The responsibility of nexus within this cooperative project is to bring in and to integrate the relevant regional groups of actors. A multilevel dialogic concept for conducting surveys and supervising participation has been developed for use in identifying needs for a new form of community transport and for the analysis of shortcomings perceived by customers and operators during the system's test and optimization phase. nexus has also analyzed the system's basic organizational elements to determine whether they represent obstacles to innovation in new community transport.
