METEOR - Monitoring and Evaluation of Transport and Energy Oriented Radical strategies for clean urban transport
Overview
Background & policy context:
The CIVITAS Initiative - cleaner and better transport in cities - stands for CIty-VITAlity - Sustainability. In the CIVITAS I Initiative, launched by DG-TREN from 2002 to 2005 19 cities participated in testing and implementing measures to achieve the objective of cleaner and better transport. With € 50 million of financial support from the European Commission the following cities; Aalborg, Barcelona, Berlin, Bremen, Bristol, Bucharest, Cork, Gdynia, Gothenburg, Graz, Kaunas, Lille, Nantes, Pecs, Prague, Rome, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Winchester), implemented 212 measures on sustainable transport. The measures contributed to an enormous boost for sustainable transport solutions in the cities and in many cases a definite breakthrough was achieved.
METEOR, a crucial component of the CIVITAS Initiative, was the project responsible for monitoring, evaluating and disseminating the results of 19 cities which worked together in four separate demonstration projects (MIRACLES, TELLUS, TRENDSETTER and VIVALDI).
Objectives:
The METEOR objectives were:
- To play a supporting and facilitating role for all parties involved in the CIVITAS Initiative (this included the European Commission, especially Project Officers and other personnel, the partners involved in the actual demonstration projects, as well as stakeholders at the national level and the scientific community);
- To perform independent monitoring and evaluation including expert deliverable reviews on the basis of a sound methodological approach based upon state of the art expertise and enriching the know how in the field of evaluation;
- To analyse CIVITAS level impacts and to provide clear recommendations and publicity for widest take-up of successful demonstration project results;
- To facilitate consensus on the pre-conditions and implications of Clean Urban Transport and to identify the need for action to enable transfer and take-up of radical policies on the pan-European level.
Methodology:
The project consisted of the following groups of activities.
- Project Management, which took care of the internal co-ordination and the communication to the EC. It was strongly related to the other groups of activities.
- Communication, Motivation and Involvement management. This group of activities managed the involvement of the cities, by motivating and supporting them. In fact a crucial issue for the success of the CIVITAS Initiative was to achieve a full commitment of the cities to co-operate within the pan-European dimension of CIVITAS.
- Evaluation. The objective was to identify the impact of the CIVITAS measures and applications.
- Monitoring. This group of activities aimed at checking that the cities delivered what they planned to.
- Policy Recommendations. The objective was to interpret of the results of the evaluation and monitoring.
- Dissemination. The objective was to disseminate the results of the measures implemented in order to achieve a multiplier effect.
These activities were to ensure the achievement of the objectives of the CIVITAS Initiative and spread the knowledge on cleaner and better in transport in cities throughout Europe.
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