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Actions for sustainable urban mobility.

Project

LIFE94 ENV/IT/000205 - Actions for sustainable urban mobility.


Funding origin:
European
European Union
STRIA Roadmaps:
Smart mobility and services (SMO)
Smart mobility and services
Duration:
Start date: 01/09/1994,
End date: 01/09/1996

Status: Finished
Funding details:

Overview

Objectives:

The project has been conducted in the town of Bergamo, where recent urban trends have produced a sharp spatial scattering of principal urban functions. The project methodology of action is based on consensus building around some general principles and practical proposals on which a socially and environmental acceptable mobility model, taken as an alternative to the car-based model, can be adopted. The project is a pilot experience that can be exported - making suitable adjustments - to other urban contexts for the following reasons: the project was conceived for medium-sized towns (the mainstay of urban Italy). It may lead to the commencement of experiments in a short space of time at much lower costs than those involved in infrastructural projects. The results of field studies were interpreted to create a system of general principles and practical proposals to promote public and intermodal transport and reduce traffic congestion at certain times of the day.

Methodology:

The project has been broken down into various phases. The four principal phases are, in chronological order:

  • desk and field studies on the existing mobility system and organisation of timetables;
  • drafting of an alternative mobility model based on the creation of a system of general principles and practical proposals for the improved organisation of urban time and space; 
  • creation of consensus for the proposals put forward through a continuing process of dialogue with local actors (concertation meetings); 
  • management of trial periods and dissemination of results.

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