The regeneration of the Emscher, a tributary of the Rhine, and the associated urban structural impulses are proving to be an opportunity to rethink the previous automobile-oriented mobility with new innovative approaches and to develop and design a completely new network of routes in the northern area of the region.

The New Emscher Mobility (NEMO) project offers a unique opportunity to create new attractive links for sustainable mobility in an urban sub-region of the Metropole Ruhr, which can be integrated into the overall regional network.

The NEMO project thus aims to develop a new, regionally anchored narrative that focuses both on a sustainability-oriented mobility concept and transport rethinking, and on the concretisation of an intermodal transport turnaround using new Emscher mobility scenarios in order to transfer the potentials and design options to the local level, to illustrate them and make them tangible.

As an example for the Emscher region, innovative overall concepts for sustainable mobility are to be promoted by the NEMO project. Explorative scenarios will be developed and implementation prepared for the development of everyday connections as well as for leisure cycle paths. In addition, the potential for intermodal links in the northern part of the Metropole Ruhr will be investigated as an example.