Paris New Mobility Model

Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced yesterday that that program will be in place by the end of 2009 and will consist of some 4,000 cars which program users can pick up from and return to any one of 700 locations throughout the city. Users can either pay a monthly fee or pay as you go by using their monthly transport cards. The particular model of electric car has yet to be determined

Rethinking the Paris Bus Line

The content of this report and of the related web site http://cities.media.mit.edu/mobile/RATP is based on the educational design workshop “Smart Mobility. Rethinking the Paris Bus Line,” held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Spring 2005. MAS 966, in collaboration with RATP, Paris. This report, more then a structured linear text should serve as an instrument to “think with” that reflect a collective work and a collaboration process between MIT and RATP.

Eco-drive

The ECODRIVEN final conference took place on the 12th november 2008 in the framework of the Czech Energy Efficiency Business Week in Prague (CZ). The Energy Efficiency Business Week is one of the most important conferences in the field of effective use of energy in the area of Central and Eastern Europe. For one afternoon the project ECODRIVEN and the Ecodriving activities in the partner countries took the center stage at the EEBW

Demonstration, take-up and further dissemination of sustainable integrated planning methods in European cities (Snowball).

Urban structure has a great impact on transport demand. Approaches that integrate transport and urban planning may cause reduced transport and thus energy savings. SNOWBALL addresses two major specific barriers:the lack of multi-sectoral skills and institutional barriers. Professionals tend to be trained in specific sectoral applications, which can lead to sub-optimal planning solutions. Furthermore, skills such as evaluation of methods, consensus building, and communication are rarely trained. The examples of three partner cities (Trnava, Hilversum, Stockholm) show that these complementary skills make the difference in the successful implementation of new, sustainable planning. Key elements include a toolkit of integrated planning methods, a variety of workshops, and the development of national expert networks. The result of SNOWBALL will be that 6 cities will have developed an (integrated) urban plan, but, more importantly, that these cities will have acquired new skills and anchored new working procedures. Moreover, these cities will act as new examples for another set of cities to start integrated planning RATP

MIDAS - Policies to impact on enabling a modal shift

MIDAS looks at how to get people to change their travel habits and to use less energy intense modes of travel. The project started with a review of local transport and planning policies in six cities, to assess what policies have a positive impact on enabling a modal shift. For example: a modal shift from single occupancy private car use to car sharing on a regular basis, or to encourage the use of other more energy efficient transport modes such as walking, cycling and using public transport. MIDAS is being implemented by partners in 6 case study cities which are representative of a wide part of the enlarged Europe: Liverpool (UK), Aalborg (DK), Cork (IRL), Clermont Ferrand (FR), Bologna (IT) and Suceava (RO). The project uses innovative communication means to provide information and raise public awareness of environmental issues linked to car dependency. Those communication tools range from travel guides (Clermont Ferrand), a "sustainable mobility zone" (Bologna), "TravelWise" marketing campaigns (Liverpool), mobile touch screen information systems (Suceava), individualised marketing (Cork and Aalborg), to list a few

Mobility Centres Network

The Mobility Centres Network will create a European Network of know-how on sustainable mobility. The purpose of the exchange with other mobility centres will be to learn from each other and to optimise the implementation of local actions. The project has got a participatory evaluation approach and will produce a rich web site and a guidebook for setting up a Mobility Centre. The main tool in the project will be Mobility Centres that will offer two kinds of services: � Approaching the public by establishing publicly accessible Info Points. They will deploy personalised information on alternatives to the private car, promote innovative solutions and encourage pilot implementations. � Addressing Companies (industries and services) and schools with local actions and mobility management services offered by the Info Points. This includes the coordination and optimisation of different mobility needs with the goal to make mobility more energy efficient .

Towards a New Culture for Urban Mobility

Cities all over Europe face similar problems (congestion, road safety, security, pollution, climate change due to CO2 emissions etc.) and these problems are increasing constantly.
Inaction would result in Europe having to pay an even higher price both in economic and environmental terms, as well as for the health and quality of life of European citizens.
The objectives of the European transport policy cannot be achieved without a contribution from urban transport. It is time to put urban mobility on the European agenda and open a new chapter in European transport policy. This is the reason why the Commission wishes to open a debate with citizens and all relevant stakeholders at the local, regional, national and European levels. This should result in concrete proposals to
achieve a sustainable urban mobility in Europe.

This report provides information assessed by sustainability indexes and disclosure initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Carbon Disclosure Project and by certain international and Canadian sustainability rating agencies. It also respects the reporting requirements of industry associations, specifically teh International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Association of Public Transport (UITP).