PlanSpielZukunft@HM

PLAYING, UNDERSTANDING, CREATING

PlanSpielZukunft@HM offers students the opportunity to step into the shoes of various key figures in current social and political events. PlanSpielZukunft@HM is always based on a real-life scenario.

In their role profiles, participants act out the behavioural and decision-making processes set out in the scenario. In this way, they experience the processes that actually take place during the scenario and learn to make decisions for the future based on the different specific interests of their role profiles.

Traffic gridlock in Munich – Does Munich need a city toll?

For years, Munich has been gaining 30,000 new residents every year, all of whom also become road users. As housing in the city of Munich itself is in short supply, this dynamic population growth is spilling over into the entire metropolitan region, which is also gaining residents, the majority of whom subsequently commute to Munich on weekdays. Consequently, the transport networks in the metropolitan region and in Munich are coming under ever-greater strain. Daily traffic jams and overcrowded trains are already the norm. How can the IMM continue to meet its residents’ needs for work and leisure mobility in the future?

This key question for the Munich metropolitan region touches on issues of sustainability, economics, technology, urban and spatial planning, and politics. As part of the inter-faculty business simulation seminar – which combines the scenario method with business simulation – the aim is to link these aspects and to facilitate dialogue between students and policymakers on a key current development issue concerning the future of the Munich metropolitan region.

The seminar began with an overview of the current state of the debate. The knowledge gained was then put into practice as part of a policy simulation, i.e. the participants themselves developed and assumed the roles of various stakeholders (e.g. the state capital, districts and local authorities in the metropolitan region, the Free State, transport companies, car manufacturers, environmental organisations, ADAC, political parties) and, based on the roles they had developed, presented proposed solutions to the question “Does Munich need a city toll?” during a public final negotiation attended by real-life representatives.