Published by Volume 4 • Issue 1 Volume May 2017 EUROPEAN CITIES AND REGIONS NETWORKING FOR INNOVATIVE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH MOBILITY, MULTIMODALITY SOCIAL & ECONOMIC SAFETY & SECURITY IN IN TRANSPORT & TRAFFIC EFFICIENCY CHALLENGES TRANSPORT The smart mobility solution driving Mobility has a sound for visually German cities equating climate The smart measures to make an ethical social network, p28 impaired Lithuanians, p34 change to behavioural change, p52 motorcycling in cities safer, p64 SMART TRANSPORT FOR CITIES AND REGIONS Achieving change in the thinking city Towards an urban mobility nirvana where people can move around safely, efciently and happily thinkingcities.com ● AARHUS ● ARNHEM ● BAMBERG ● BRISTOL ● BRUSSELS ● BUDAPEST ● COPENHAGEN ● KARLSRUHE ● KAUNAS ● LUXEMBOURG ● NIJMEGEN ● ODENSE ● PARIS ● PISA ● POTSDAM ● STOCKHOLM ● STUTTGART ● US TRANSIT FOCUS cover1.indd 1 19/05/2017 17:25 HERE Electronic Horizon Look beyond the turn The embedded software solution from HERE helps vehicles to prepare for changing road conditions by allowing them to see beyond their sensor range. HERE Electronic Horizon translates map information with detailed road characteristics into actionable data, helping vehicles make more informed decisions without involving the driver. Visit here.com to learn more. Achieving change in Foreword the thinking city Kevin Borras and Karen Vancluysen on how living in a time of tumultuous change also affects how city authorities think about the word “smart”. Have the parameters changed? KAREN VANCLUYSEN, POLIS | BORRAS, THINKING CITIES KEVIN ast week in the Thinking Cities offices we had It’s difficult enough changing one’s own behavioural pat- occasion to do a bit of Spring cleaning. While mov- terns, let alone several million strangers’. So how are we Ling boxes of back issues into storage we found an going about achieving change in the thinking city? It’s a unopened box of the February/March 2007 issue of one simple enough question but it doesn’t have a particularly of H3B Media’s other publications, Thinking Highways, catchy, pithy answer. There’s no “Well, we are doing this and after jointly deciding we weren’t being financially and it’s working brilliantly” model to follow. The cities rash and that opening the box wasn’t in any way akin to that feature in this issue are as different in every respect opening a mint-condition copy of the initial pressing of (age, geography, topology, socio-economic distribution, Canterbury Tales, we sat down and leafed through the population, layout) as the people that live in them and previously untouched pages. call them home. If you have ever visited Paris and, say, This was largely for the benefit of a young colleague, Luxembourg then you will know that they have very little who was 11 when that issue shot off the printing press in common – other than the fact that both cities are tak- and with whom we had been discussing how the intel- ing very encouraging steps to subtly change the behav- ligent transport systems sector had changed almost iour of their citizens and those that travel to those cities beyond recognition in a decade. for work. In truth it was more interesting watching the expres- These are just a few ways in which cities and regions sion on his face change from total bemusement to Karen are addressing the notion of change: Vancluysen amusement as came across articles extolling the vir- is secretary tues of what were then technological breakthroughs but general of Paradigm change: Europe and its cities and regions have since been consigned to the archives. Polis are making huge efforts to progress towards a more When that issue was published the iPhone was a mat- sustainable transport system. This requires changes kvancluysen@ ter of weeks old and the only thing you could store in a polisnetwork.eu in transport strategies, transport planning, transport cloud was water. One only has to look at the Advertisers investments and, crucially, each person’s transport Index at the back of that issue to see that the world is behaviour. The importance of giving those persons a changing (the business world if nothing else) – exactly choice of modes by which to travel to, from and within half of the companies happily promoting their wares and that city or region cannot be underestimated, and nei- solutions in the early part of 2007 are no longer in busi- ther can the notion of “social inclusion”. On pages 34-36 ness, have merged with other like-minded firms or have of this issue we highlight one such measure that has been swallowed up (and in some cases chewed up and been undertaken by Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city, spat out) by corporate behemoths. That has happened to address the needs of visually impaired users of the in 10 years. Kevin Borras is transport system. We jointly launched Thinking Cities four years ago and editor-in-chief yet it could be argued that the smart city sector has mor- of Thinking Change in behaviour: Changing mobility choices of each Cities phed into something equally unrecognisable but in only individual person is one of the hardest things to achieve. 40 per cent of the time. One theme that is evidently run- kevin@ Here’s a thought: is there any technology, real-time ning through this issue is how cities are approaching the h3bm.com information or self-driving vehicle that would persuade daunting task of changing people’s mobility behaviour. you to cycle to work today? Is there a cute image of a 1 01 Foreword.indd 1 19/05/2017 12:42 polar bear that would make you want to take the bus levels of government: connecting local, regional, rather than drive to the office? Maybe if that message national and transnational transport networks is reaches us at the very moment our lifestyle is chang- The transport essential. An EU urban agenda would also benefit ing dramatically, when we move to a new city or our from increased coordination between policies linked first child is born, it would tick that last remaining box. sector would to urban mobility at European level. We need a mech- Behavioural choice is complex and long-lasting, long- benefit from a anism for governance at EU level. We need to include term changes require a lot of thought and planning more in the Transport Commissioner’s mandate the role of and can’t be just be spur-of-the-moment decisions. concerted guaranteeing coherence of policies related to urban Initiatives such as the European Mobility Week are key and regional transport policies. This is a tool to over- tools for cities to foster dialogue with people on mobil- approach come policy fragmentation when it comes to goals on ity choices. between urban sustainability. It is a step forward in recognizing different the central role or urban mobility in any sustainable Changing role of local authorities: It is time to levels of urban agenda and for the sustainable development of rethink the roles between the public and private urban areas.” sector while transport technologies are developed government: Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning is a very effi- and rolled out. What is the societal gain if technolo- connecting cient governance tool that helps more and more cities gies are being developed without due to considera- local, to tackle challenges linked to institutional coopera- tion of the city’s needs? tion, and this for horizontal (between city departments We are moving into an age in which the voices regional, and across policy areas), vertical (between governance of cities are heard in the industry and research national and levels), and territorial (between neighbouring authori- spheres and one in which structural cooperation transnational ties within the same urban system) policy issues. between the national and local governance levels is transport needed in the deployment of innovation in transport. Transferability: Finally, in order to see through the Investments in the roll-out of new transport tech- networks is changes that are being implemented, to ensure they nologies and measures can only lead to true change essential aren’t here-today, gone-tomorrow flashes of bril- and improvements if the specific needs of cities are liance that are not founded on the needs of the city properly taken into account. or its citizens, we must build on existing knowledge, As Polis wrote in its Answers To The European develop transferability tools, share practices across Commission DG REGIO Consultation On A Future EU borders to ensure that European cohesion at the local Urban Agenda: “The transport sector would benefit level becomes a reality. We need to embrace change, from a more concerted approach between different and not shy away from it. 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