One goal in connection with implementation of policies and measures in the frame of the Key Action Cities of Tomorrow (CoT) 15 to improve Life quality (LQ) in the Cities. ASI will help to improve assessment and appropriate consideration of LQ assessment results in connection with urban transport and mobility policies. The focus of the project will be on the subjective part of LQ. Many measures have been implemented so far in the frame of this Key action. In ASI, we want to select five CoT implementation-sites in different parts of Europe and to find out how LQ aspects are assessed and taken care of, there. Based on the results of the evaluation of these sites we will develop a toolbox to assess LQ effects of proposed and implemented policies and measures which will be tested in a pilot- study. Moreover, the concept for a data-bank for the storage of qualitative data of LQ assessments and measures based on them will be developed.

To improve life quality in cities is a main goal of the Key Action Cities of Tomorrow (CoT). We consider an accompanying measure the appropriate frame to analyse heuristically the usual practical procedures applied to take care of LQ- aspects.

The goals are:

• To examine how and to what extent policy makers and practitioners take into account LQ effects of implemented policies and measures;
• To develop a preliminary instrument to assess such LQ effects, with the help of interviews politicians, decision makers, practitioners and other experts;
• To develop a basic databank frame for both results of LQ assessments (questions used, answers given), of measures on basis of assessment results, and their evaluation with respect to effects on LQ;
• to develop guidelines for the transformation of LQ assessment results into policies and measures.