SMARTA 2 Team the European Union and Rural Mobility
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SMARTA 2 Team Q-Plan International qplan-intl.gr White Research white-research.eu Brasov Metropolitan Area www.metropolabrasov.ro e-trikala The European www.e-trikala.gr Union and Municipality of Águeda rural mobility www.cm-agueda.pt The European Union is committed Regionsmanagement Osttirol to addressing the mobility needs of www.rmo.at people living in rural areas and foster their participation in all aspects of economic and social life. In this context, with the contribution of Brian the European Commission funded the Leslie Masson (Transport Expert) SMARTA project in 2018, representing an opportunity to conceptualise, identify Promoting and pilot smart rural transport solutions. VISIT CONTACT US sustainable To measure the contribution of smart ruralsharedmobility.eu [email protected] transport solutions to the issues faced by rural areas, SMARTA created an evaluation shared Mobility framework to assess how sustainable, @RMOsttirol @SMARTAmobility SMARTA project shared and on-demand mobility solutions interconnected with www.e-tirol.at can help enhance the travel experience of Jetzt rural populations. teilen! public transport in SMARTA 2 puts this evaluation framework european rural Areas into practice in four sites across Europe. The objective is to create an evidence SMARTA 2 is an EU-funded project under MOVE/B4/2018-567. The responsibility for base that will allow the extrapolation of the information of this brochure lies entirely with its authors. It does not necessarily refl ect the offi cial opinion of the European Union. Neither the European Union the pilot areas’ experience to other rural institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf are responsible for areas across the EU. the use which may be made of the information contained therein. besmarta.at INNSBRUCK What is SMARTA 2 MÜNCHEN 5 Reasons Großglockner Demonstrators about? Kals new Stations Why you should keep Matrei Prägraten FLUGS Stations SMARTA 2 focuses on rural mobility put into practice. It aims Virgen to implement shared mobility solutions in East Tyrol (Austria), an eye on SMARTA 2 Trikala (Greece), Águeda (Portugal) and Brasov (Romania). Oberlienz East Tyrol’s These four European rural areas, spanning different geographies, Innervillgraten populations and mobility challenges, have set up different Lienz Nikolsdorf SPITTAL demonstrator sharing services, interconnecting them with existing public Obertilliach SALZBURG transport, thus increasing the range of environmentally friendly INNICHEN Sillian BOZEN and cost-effi cient mobility options for local citizens. CORTINA VILLACH The impact of these new services is monitored and assessed under a common evaluation framework, developed by the UDINE Learn how e-carsharing interconnected TRIEST 1 SMARTA project. The evidence gathered is expected to foster with public transport can decrease CO2 and policy discussions at the regional and European level on how lead to a better lifestyle and provide people to leverage sustainable shared rural mobility solutions in the better fi nancial conditions. future. Drawing from the demonstrators’ experiences, the SMARTA 2 project will create a Toolkit of good practices, lessons learnt and recommendations to support the implementation of smart Testing mobility offers mobility interventions in more rural settings across Europe. in East Tyrol 2 Discover how integrated mobility SMARTA 2 started in September 2019 and will last until March (e-carsharing and public transport) 2021. SMARTA 2 - Enables a test run to see improve the mobility of citizens (especially how alternative mobility offers in those having no car / second car) foster comparison to private car (can) work. their independence and allow them top anticipate equally in all aspects of The offer is aimed at all East Tyrolean economic and social life. 1. Its bottom-up approach: through dedicated workshops, citizens to take the opportunity and citizens do not simply consume but rather co-design the test public transport services of the transport services that can best accommodate their needs and public transport provider VVT and contribute to the selection of the intervention sites in each pilot e-car sharing with “Flugs” in the Find out more about SMARTA2- area. 3 district. Demonstrators’ participatory approach and its various co-creation methods and how 2. The use of behavioural incentives – together with fi nancial The offer consists in two VVT monthly they can help you to create policies that ones – to increase the uptake of pilot services by the locals. tickets for 130 people each. The correspond better to the local populations’ The effects will be measured and valuable lessons on the tickets will be issued between April needs, ambitions and aspirations. deployment of incentives to support sustainable shared rural mobility will be drawn. and September 2020 while stocks last. In addition, 200 new customers will receive a starting capital of 4 Access the project’s toolkit to learn 3. Its probable spillover effects on the local economies: 100 € each to test the E-Carsharing. more about the performance of the pilots besides providing cost-effi cient and environmentally friendly The Flugs-Card is valid for all car along with lessons learnt, good practices, transport solutions, the new services are likely to improve the continuous fl ow of citizens from surrounding rural areas towards sharing stations in the district. implementation challenges and mobility the city centre. strategies. One solution for better framework and living conditions in rural areas is 4. The collection of both quantitative and qualitative evidence to learn what works and why it works in all four rural integrated mobility. areas. Findings will be discussed in regional policy debates in 5 Weigh the evidence and make informed order to identify possible actions that could be taken at regional decisions to improve the mobility landscape and supra-regional level to support sustainable shared rural in East Tyrol. mobility solutions in the future. besmarta.at.