Shaping Future Mobility: Transfer

Cities around the world are facing profound changes in the way mobility is organized, perceived, and used. Climate targets, limited urban space, social equity, and digitalization are challenging long-established transport systems and call for new, integrated approaches. The transformation of transportation can only succeed if mobility is understood not merely as infrastructure, but as a carefully designed system that responds to environmental responsibilities and everyday human needs alike.

In this context, design research emerges as a decisive driver of sustainable mobility development. By combining analytical research with practical experimentation, it enables new planning perspectives that go beyond technical efficiency and focus on usability, accessibility, and societal impact. The third volume of the Mobility Design series builds on this understanding and translates research insights into actionable knowledge.

Conceived as a hands-on resource, the publication addresses municipalities, planners, mobility providers, and political actors who are actively shaping urban transformation processes. It brings together strategies, design approaches, and real-world examples developed through close collaboration between municipal administrations and mobility designers. These contributions illustrate how cities can actively foster intermodal, environmentally responsible mobility systems and make them tangible in everyday urban life.

The presented design principles are rooted in scientific research and consistently aligned with user needs. They offer concrete tools for planning, designing, and implementing future-oriented mobility concepts that integrate multiple modes of transport into coherent systems. The volume documents and reflects on the results of the research project InterMoDe, conducted at the Offenbach Institute for Mobility Design in cooperation with the City of Offenbach, and provides strategic guidance for the design of intermodal mobility systems that support sustainable urban development.

Authors: Heike Andersen, Hanna Bader, Andreas Blitz, Peter Eckart, Andreas Grzesiek, Amelie Ikas, Julian Schwarze, Anton Viehl and Kai Vöckler.

Mobility Design – Shaping Future Mobility. Volume 3: Transfer
144 pages, available in English and German
Jovis Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-98612-174-7