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Traffic chaos in the Miesbach district: Experts see the solution in data and services

2021-06-11T08:08:54.885Z


How does the district escape the traffic jam? At the FIT forum of the Kreissparkasse, traffic experts have now discussed ideas. For them, the key lies in data and services.


How does the district escape the traffic jam?

At the FIT forum of the Kreissparkasse, traffic experts have now discussed ideas.

For them, the key lies in data and services.

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- Until the 19th century, an average man walked ten to 20 kilometers every day. Today it is more like 500 to 900 meters. “Except in the free time in the mountains, of course,” said MVV Managing Director Bernd Rosenbusch yesterday at the online event “Last Mile - Mobility Concepts for the District Put to the Test” as part of the Forum Innovation and Transformation (FIT) of the Kreissparkasse Miesbach-Tegernsee . Rosenbusch characterized modern mobility behavior as “convenient and time-optimized”. The traffic turnaround can only succeed if the appropriate offers are created. The goal must be: from door to door with a (attractively priced) ticket and an easy-to-use app that guides you through the various means of transport.

Words and findings that could have come from a psychologist or social researcher. Exactly this approach, which at first glance was alien to the subject, ran through almost all of the speeches in the round, which thus fitted perfectly into the topic of this year's FIT Forum: "New Normal" (see below). Break open old-fashioned systems with fresh ideas, which were already shaken to their foundations by the Corona crisis. Moderator Florian Zibert, District Administrator Olaf von Löwis and entrepreneur Sabine Stang discussed what they could look like in the studio at the Hotel Bachmair Weissach in Kreuth. In addition to Rosenbusch, traffic experts Klaus Bogenberger from the Technical University of Munich and Wolfgang Kieslich from the Oberland municipal service center were also connected digitally.

Data and services as a way out of the traffic jam?

If one had to summarize the statements of the consistently exciting exchange in one sentence, it would probably read like this: The way out of the traffic chaos does not lead via new roads and rails, but via data and services. And thus not from top to bottom, but from bottom to top. Only if information such as timetables, parking space capacities or construction sites were completely collected on site could they be imported into the apps or navigation systems of the major providers and thus help guide road users, explained Kieslich. In the event of a temporary overload, alternatives must also be shown. A service that ultimately the municipalities and districts would have to provide themselves. To make it easier to switch between private cars and public transport,more coordination is needed here too, added Rosenbusch. “The big hurdle is the automaker,” sighed the MVV boss.

Also read: Cellular data shows how often the Miesbach district is overcrowded

Bogenberger emphasized that creativity and a willingness to experiment are also required to make people wanting to do without a car.

Experiences could help to make bicycles more attractive, for example.

As an example, Bogenberger cited a car-free weekend in the Tegernsee valley, ideally combined with a lake festival.

Visitors traveling further afield could park their cars in an improvised Park & ​​Ride parking lot on a meadow and then get on shuttle buses.

Locals would then of course also have to leave their cars in the garage.

"We cause the traffic jam in front of our front door ourselves," warned Bogenberger, who lives in Gmund.

District Administrator: "Closing ranks" with experts and citizens

District Administrator Löwis confirmed that “two-tier thinking” would not get you any further and promised that he would be happy to get involved as a networker.

Politicians cannot solve the problems on their own.

"That is only possible in close collaboration with the experts and of course the citizens themselves," said Löwis.


Sabine Stang's suggestion to create a logistics center for the entire valley as part of her company's construction project on Kreuzstrasse shows that there are already promising ideas here too.

Supraregional suppliers could place their parcels and pallets here before they are brought down to the valley - perhaps with a transport ring line, ideally with electric vehicles.

The district administrator not only commented on this approach with a clear work order: "The best thing to do is to get up and start immediately."

Use “New Normal” as an opportunity

Sport was the life of BMX and mountain bike freerider Tarek Rasouli (47). But it was precisely this sport that reset his life to zero in 2002. Rasouli fell while filming and has been paraplegic ever since. Today he manages events, takes part in competitions with a wheelchair and handbike and trains upright walking with an exoskeleton. "I would like to do something so that I don't have to experience the world forever from a height of 1.30 meters," said Rasouli yesterday at the start of the FIT forum of the Miesbach-Tegernsee district savings bank.


While Rasouli has been living in his "New Normality" since 2002, the Kreissparkasse has been doing this since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic in 2020. "We had to make far-reaching decisions in a very short time," reported CEO Martin Mihalovits in an interview with moderator Martin Kloss. For a sluggish, highly regulated “tanker” like the Sparkasse, this was a great challenge. But they have recognized the opportunities of digitization and are consistently following this path. “This train cannot be stopped,” said Mihalovits. With this year's FIT-Forum, which is also a premiere as a purely online event, the aim is to show people and companies in the district perspectives that they too can jump on at an early stage.


Five hours later, the Sparkasse boss summed up that the courageous experiment had succeeded.

He praised the individual discussion rounds on topics such as tourism, housing construction and talent management (further reports will follow) as “dense in terms of content and incredibly valuable” and “stringent and solution-oriented”.

The digital variant has increased the reach of the FIT Forum.

In conclusion, Mihalovits drew that "mia san mia" sounds nice, but that the great challenges of the district can only be mastered together.

"That has to be the maxim."

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Source: merkur

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