Problem perception smart city Munich

Main finding related to the problem’s roots

- There are too many cars in Munich for it’s infrastructure to accommodate (sustained by
interviews etc.).
- This is not because the infrastructures are inadequate, but because car ownership
enormously high in contrast compared to other places in the world.
- Increasing infrastructure, is like buying new hose for an obese person. Not a root solution,
thus that will only cause more traffic.
- In 2019, 852263 vehicles among which 724,303 cars were registered. In 2014 this was
778158, the cars/100 residents increased with 2.32 % in this period (source:
https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtinfos/Statistik/Verkehr). Private car ownership also
sig. increased: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-verkehr-autos-
verkehrswende-1.4913593
- Car ownership is relatively high in Munich compared to other big cities:

Figure 1: own creation using python seaborn and 2017 data from Munich, 2014 data for other cities:
https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Referat-fuer-Stadtplanung-und-
Bauordnung/Stadtentwicklung/Grundlagen/Haushaltsprognose.html and
https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtinfos/Statistik/Verkehr
 - Also much higher than in other big cities in Germany (though not than in Germany on
average).

Interesting articles

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311940518_The_Impact_of_Carsharing_on_Car_Owners
hip_in_German_Cities/figures

Reasons not to have a car from carsharing users in figure 2 below, the only two reasons why people
say they have no car the city of Munich can influence, are costs and parking space. Costs: make
parking more expensive (relatively easy from a technical point) or road pricing (hard). Make parking
harder, easy from a technical perspective: e.g. Fraunhoferstraße.

Figure 2: Reasons not to have a car for carsharing users in Munich

https://www.mobil.org/studie-verkehrsleistung-verkehrstraeger-muenchen-auto-oepnv-fahrrad/