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Best Practices Analysis Synopsis CSDCS Club Sustainable Development of Civil Society www.interregeurope.eu/lastmile Contents Summary 2 1. Introduction 3 2. Objectives 4 2.1. LAST MILE Objectives .............................................................................................4 2.2. Objectives of this Report ..........................................................................................5 3. Methodology 6 3.1. INTERREG Europe Questionnaire ...........................................................................7 3.2. Adapted questionnaires ............................................................................................9 4. Presentation of best practices 12 4.1. Template of Good practices per category of the operating system ......................... 12 4.2. Regular public transport with request stop .............................................................. 13 4.2.1. Good practice from Spain: FGC train with stops on demand from Lleida to La Pobla de Segur 13 4.3. Call/Dial Systems ................................................................................................... 16 4.3.1. Good practice from Luxembourg: Bummelbus 16 4.3.2. Good practice from Luxembourg: Nightrider 18 4.3.3. Good practice from Austria: DefMobil- a hailed shared taxi 20 4.3.4. Good practice from Spain: Val de Boi taxi service 24 4.4. Shuttle seasonal/temporary (operates only seasonally or at specific occasions) fixed route and stops, mostly running on small distances .......................................................... 27 4.4.1. Good practice from Bulgaria: Fast seasonal bus line 209 27 4.4.2. Seaside Narrow Gauge Railway 29 4.4.3. Nostalgic train 32 4.5. Sharing systems ..................................................................................................... 34 4.5.1. Good practice from Austria: Flugs – e-car sharing 34 4.5.2. Good practice from Poland: BalticBike.pl 37 4.5.3. Cyclo Tour Spiš bike rental system 39 4.6. Others .................................................................................................................... 41 4.6.1. Good practice from Bulgaria: Flexible mobility services in Byala 41 5. Summary of the best practices visited 44 6. Conclusions – Lessons learned 50 Annexes 53 Annex 1 - Best practice from Austria: defMobile – a hailed shared taxi ............................. 53 Annex 2 - Best practice from Austria: Flugs – e-car sharing .............................................. 55 1 Annex 3 - Best practice from Spain: FGC train with stops on demand from Lleida to La Pobla ................................................................................................................................ 57 Annex 4 - Best practice from Spain: Val de Boi taxi .......................................................... 59 Annex 5 - Best practice from Bulgaria: Fast seasonal bus line 209 (Varna Airport to Golden sands) ............................................................................................................................... 61 Annex 6 - Best practice from Bulgaria: Flexible mobility services in Byala ........................ 63 Annex 7 - Best practice from Luxembourg: BUMMELBUS ................................................ 65 Annex 8 - Best practice from Luxembourg: NIGHTRIDER ................................................ 67 Annex 9 - Best practice from Poland – BalticBike ............................................................. 69 Annex 10 - Best practice from Poland – Rewal narrow gauge railway ............................... 71 Annex 11 - Best practice from Slovakia – Nostalgic train .................................................. 73 Annex 12 - Best practice from Slovakia – CykloTourSpiš .................................................. 75 Summary The main objective of this report is to transfer knowledge on good practice and policies with special focus on the last mile issue and to define the lessons learned from the experience exchange (e.g. adopted/transfered approaches from another region) in order to stimulate a regional discourse on the possibility of new approaches, and use the information gained in the process of elaborating the planned actions with special regard to the policy instrument, the players involved, timeframes, costs and funding sources. This report is the synthesis of the best practices in the 6 regional areas considered by the LAST MILE project. It summarises the collected information during the study visits in target regions for analyzing the sustainable transport networks and existing flexible transport systems (sharing/pooling/shuttle/call systems) in rural areas in different European countries. The 6 regions analysed are: Varna District in Bulgaria, Upper Sûre Nature Parks in Luxemburg, East Tyrol in Austria, Košice Region in Slovakia, Westpomeranian Voivodeship (with main focus on Szczecin Metropolitan Area) in Poland and Catalonia in Spain. All of them have rural and touristic areas which could take benefit from the implementation of flexible transport systems. During the study visits the regional flexible transport systems and solutions were demonstrated and evaluated using a predesined template presented by the JS. The evaluation was based on a systematic collection and scrutiny of information about the 2 activities, characteristics, and outcomes of implemented last mile actions to make judgments about their impact, improve their effectiveness, assess their transferability and inform decisions about future programming. In this regard, potentials for optimization, innovation and replication was identified, and following the lessons learned the project partners could develop their RAP. 1. Introduction LAST MILE addresses the priority axis 3 "Low carbon economy" which is allocated to the Investment priority 4(e). In order to reduce CO2 emissions in tourism, it is inherent to promote sustainable mobility and set further measures to influence the tourists` mobility behaviour at the destination. Under this light, the last mile has a crucial role in modal choice as the (multimodal) transport chain from origin to destination is as strong as the weakest link of the chain. Implementation of multimodal and/or demand-oriented mobility systems requires a professional management including information facilities, booking and dispatching and being accessible for all (target) groups. Through the knowledge exchange/transfer, interregional and intraregional cooperation the efficiency and effectiveness of multimodal offers may be enhanced. The wide spread partnership of regions across Europe shall facilitate a learning from different cases in different countries, each of them with its own legal and institutional framework. The overall objective of the project is to improve the regional policies and to create clear framework conditions for sustainable, flexible transport forms in the last mile of the travel chain to change the mode choice towards more sustainable transport modes in tourism and recreational related traffic from car to sustainable transport modes by 5% by 2020 (based on 2015), thus in line with the long term goal towards a competitive low carbon economy in Europe. As a subjective is defined: “Exchange of policies and best practices in the field of sustainable mobility with a focus on the last mile among the 6 project regions in order to encourage participating regional authorities to adopt other approaches learned 3 from this exchange and integrate them in their own regional policy » During meetings with stakeholders the best practices will be presented and discussed asking for implementation possibilities where it is relevant. In view of actual implementation these policies and concrete measures shall be elaborated in line with the regional structural funds programme. The “Synopsis of Best Practices” summarises the collected information during the study visits in target regions for analyzing the sustainable transport networks and existing flexible transport systems (sharing/pooling/shuttle/call systems) in rural areas in different European countries. The 6 regions analysed are: Varna District in Bulgaria, Upper Sûre + Our Nature Parks in Luxemburg, East Tyrol in Austria, Košice Region in Slovakia, Westpomeranian Voivodeship (with main focus on Szczecin Metropolitan Area) in Poland and Catalonia. All of them have rural and touristic areas which could take benefit from the implementation of flexible transport systems. 2. Objectives 2.1. LAST MILE Objectives The LAST MILE project (INTERREG EUROPE, 2016 – 2020) aims to find innovative, flexible solutions for sustainable regional mobility systems. It wants to offer visitors the possibility to travel the ‘last mile’ of their travel chain sustainably and, at the same time, provide alternatives to car use for residents on their daily trips. The project sets a concrete focus on the problematic accessibility of the last link of the travel chain from origin to destination (the so called "last mile") and collects and analyses solutions to cover this bottleneck with sustainable modes of transport. The environmental benefit and resource- and cost-efficiency in the long run are considered. LAST MILE aims, among others, at pointing out how sound institutional framework facilitate the implementation of especially demand-responsive transport (public, sharing, pooling). The project will take on-board lessons learnt here, to further encourage at a later stage of the project partners and regional stakeholders to 4 implement new successful approaches from other
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