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COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH & ENERGY, ENVIROMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES MIRACLES Project GRD1 – 2001 – 40047 Rome Winchester Barcelona Cork Deliverable D2.3 and D1.7 REPORT ON CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS & POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS Version N°4.1 Dec 2006 MIRACLES DELIVERABLE n°1.7 & 2.3 Workpackage 1 and 2 / Version 4.1 / December 2006 Classification This report is: Draft Final X Internal Public X Editors Chiara Di Majo, Katya Morton; Simon Hayes; Andy Wren; Contributors Maria Vittoria Corazza, Mike McDonald, Antonio Musso, Fabio Nussio, Don O’Cinneide, Andy Richards, Issue Date Version 1 1/6/06 Version 2 7/11/06 Version 3 14/11/06 Version 4 1/12/06 Version 4.1 11/12/06 MIRACLES Project Office ATAC – Sviluppo Attività Internazionali – Via Ostiense 131/L 00154 Roma Tel: +39 06 4695 9621 Fax: +39 06 04695 9547 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.miraclesproject.org Conclusions and Policy Reccommendations - 1 - TABLE OF CONTENTS Background.......................................................................................................................... - 3 - 1.1 The CIVITAS Initiative: a mix of policies and technology............................. - 3 - 1.2 MIRACLES and the CIVITAS Initiative and the policy approach ................ - 4 - 1.3 The Cities and the Integrated Approach ......................................................... - 6 - 1.3.1 Rome ............................................................................................................ - 7 - 1.3.2 Winchester ................................................................................................... - 8 - 1.3.3 Barcelona ..................................................................................................... - 8 - 1.3.4 Cork City....................................................................................................... - 9 - 1.4 The MIRACLES Project partnership and roles ............................................ - 10 - 2 Making “MIRACLES” happen.................................................................................. - 10 - 2.1 ACCESS RESTRICTIONS.............................................................................. - 12 - 2.1.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 12 - 2.1.2 Recommendations and Lessons learned.............................................. - 14 - 2.2 INTEGRATED PRICING STRATEGIES ....................................................... - 16 - 2.2.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 16 - 2.2.2 Recommendations and Lessons Learned ............................................ - 17 - 2.3 COLLECTIVE PASSENGER TRANSPORT - .............................................. - 18 - 2.3.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 18 - 2.3.2 Recommendations and Lessons Learned ............................................ - 19 - 2.4 NEW FORMS OF VEHICLE USE.................................................................. - 22 - 2.4.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 22 - 2.4.2 Recommendations and Lessons Learned ............................................ - 22 - 2.5 NEW CONCEPTS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS...................... - 24 - 2.5.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 24 - 2.5.2 Recommendations and Lessons Learned ............................................ - 25 - 2.6 INNOVATIVE SOFT MEASURES.................................................................. - 26 - 2.6.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 26 - 2.6.2 Recommendations and Lessons Learned ............................................ - 27 - 2.7 INTEGRATION OF TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ............... - 29 - 2.7.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 29 - 2.7.2 Recommendations and Lessons Learned ............................................ - 30 - 2.8 CLEAN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FLEETS .................................................... - 32 - 2.8.1 Key Impacts ............................................................................................... - 32 - 2.8.2 Recommendations and Lessons Learned ............................................ - 35 - 3 Conclusions ............................................................................................................... - 37 - 3.1 Policy Recommendations ................................................................................ - 37 - 3.2 Key recommendations for CIVITAS from the MIRACLES team................ - 39 - Contact details.................................................................................................................. - 42 - References ......................................................................................................................... - 42 - Glossary .............................................................................................................................. - 44 - Conclusions and Policy Reccommendations - 2 - Background Europe is a much urbanised region of the world and it is in these urban areas (which comprise 80% of Europe) that transportation, environmental, and energy policies meet. Traffic congestion is a prevalent and growing issue in Europe. 80% of urban dwellers believe traffic congestion, accidents and pollution to be very serious problems that need to be urgently addressed. Europe experiences 7,000 – 10,000 kilometres of congestion daily, The European Commission (EC) desires to see comprehensive, coordinated solutions to these problems and have set policies and developed programs to accomplish this. Environmental policy sets new air quality standards, in part to assist member states in fulfilling their commitments to the Kyoto Protocol (an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases) and to address the long-term health effects of transport-related pollution. The overall objective of the EC’s 2001 Transport Policy, pursued since 1992 is to: Meet the demand for accessibility, while minimizing the negative effects of transport, with an expectation of strong economic growth that should not be minimized. The CIVITAS Initiative, which tests integrated strategies for clean transport, supports the packaging of technology and policy measures in the area of energy and transport implemented at the local level. The purpose of this report is to describe the innovative approach undertaken within the CIVITAS Framework by the MIRACLES partners, to report lessons learned, and to recommend future activities. This report is a synopsis of the technical documentation submitted to the EC. Greater detail on conclusions and lessons learned can be found within the “MIRACLES Report on Evaluation Results” and the “MIRACLES Implementation Report”. 1.1 The CIVITAS Initiative: a mix of policies and technology The CIVITAS Initiative is an integrated approach to clean urban transport, which supports demonstration projects integrating both technologies and policies, stressing both the energy and the transport elements. CIVITAS OBJECTIVES • to promote and implement sustainable, clean and efficient urban transport • to implement and test real change by integrated packages of technology and policy measures in the field of energy and transport in 8 categories of measures • building up critical mass and markets CIVITAS MEASURES 1) Demand management strategies based upon access restrictions to the inner city areas and other sensitive zones 2) Demand management and revenue raising strategies based upon integrated area-wide pricing strategies 3) Stimulation of collective passenger transport and the improved quality of service offered to passengers 4) New forms of vehicle use and/or ownership and less car intensive lifestyles 5) New concepts for the distribution of goods 6) Innovative ‘soft’ measures for managing mobility demand 7) Integration of transport management systems and related information services Conclusions and Policy Reccommendations - 3 - 8) Energy-efficient, cost-effective and clean public and/or private vehicle fleets and the necessary infrastructure 1.2 MIRACLES and the CIVITAS Initiative and the policy approach The MIRACLES Project (Multi Initiative for Rationalised Accessibility and Clean Liveable EnvironmentS) is part of the CIVITAS Initiative and has involved four European cities: Rome (IT), Barcelona (ES), Winchester (UK) and Cork (IRL). The MIRACLES Project, together with VIVALDI, TRENDSETTER and TELLUS was one of four pioneer projects belonging to the CIVITAS Initiative, launched by the EC in the year 2000, and officially started in 2002. The mix of cities within MIRACLES is unusual, combining the two large, densely populated, Mediterranean cities of Rome and Barcelona with the two smaller, northern European cities of Winchester and Cork (fig 1). At first sight the two sets of towns do not have had much in common, but the work carried out so far has shown that issues such as traffic congestion, increasing pollution levels due to traffic, and the need to provide citizens with improved mobility services, are common to all cities, notwithstanding their geographical location, character, (Latin or Anglo-Saxon) and scale. Fig 1 the MIRACLES Project cities