MOBILIS - Mobility Initiatives for Local Integration and Sustainability
Overview
Background & policy context:
The CIVITAS MOBILIS partner cities of Toulouse (France), Debrecen (Hungary), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Venice (Italy) and Odense (Denmark), and their local mobility stakeholders, strive to create a culture for clean urban mobility in the framework of sustainable development, ensuring involvement of all relevant stakeholders and participation of citizens.
Objectives:
MOBILIS aimed to demonstrate the added value of developing and implementing broad integrated packages of policies and measures. The exchange of experiences and good practice between the partners therefore played a crucial role. Specific coordination activities focused on the promotion and integration of five policy themes across all sites and measures:
- social inclusion and equity in mobility;
- transition strategies towards alternative fuel production and use;
- planning and organising mobility at agglomeration level;
- understanding and changing mobility behaviour; and
- the costs and benefits of using new technologies in transport.
The common objectives of the MOBILIS mobility measures in the five cooperating cities were to:
- foster a transition process towards the broad use of alternative fuels and clean, energy-efficient vehicles;
- promote a modal shift away from the private car towards sustainable transport modes;
- improve the quality and fair share of public spaces;
- create transport-minimising urban structures;
- foster safety, security, social inclusion and equity in urban mobility;
- reduce noise and improve air quality in urban areas;
- support economic development and competitiveness;
- advance efficient planning, management and implementation processes and coordination between mobility stakeholders at different administrative levels;
- increase the participation of citizens and civil society in environment- and mobility-related decision making;
- raise awareness of sustainable mobility issues and promote behavioural change; and
- improve the innovative and creative capacities of local mobility stakeholders.
Methodology:
The key selected mobility measures during CIVITAS MOBILIS included:
- demonstrating the large-scale application of alternative fuels;
- widening experiences with navigation systems such as EGNOS/GALILEO and implementing intelligent transport system (ITS) applications to improve traffic conditions and public transport services;
- managing the accessibility of sensitive areas through innovative zoning approaches;
- demonstrating two new approaches to clean urban logistics and implementing one new freight distribution centre operating with clean vehicles;
- ensuring social inclusion by enhancing the accessibility of mobility services (physical, psychological, economic and information related);
- enhancing public transport quality and its integration with other transport modes (private car, bicycle) through innovative planning and service development;
- providing new targeted mobility services that change the dominant concepts of vehicle ownership and use (car pooling and car sharing, mobility card schemes);
- promoting sustainable mobility, modal shift (towards walking, cycling, public transport) and behavioural change through targeted and personal marketing, service development, information dissemination, education and training; and
- contributing to the Europe-wide evaluation and dissemination of the results for promotion via the CIVITAS Initiative.
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