MOVE The CIVITAS Initiative Quarterly Newsletter 18 | July 2014 COVER STORY COVER STORY The Stuttgart Services project 1 The Stuttgart Services project – Intelligently CITY NEWS All parking spaces available networked (electro) mobility combined to Malaga’s citizens 2 with urban services in your pocket Gdynia: Intelligent Transportation Systems help Nicolas Leyva, City of Stuttgart introduce mobility management measures 3 Germany’s contribution to modern day’s mobility has been incontrovertibly high. The Extension of Transport first motor-based vehicles were already rolling on German ground by the end of the Information Centre in the 19th century. Some 125 years later after the car was invented, the German government city of Brno 6 is making great efforts to maintain the pioneering role of the country by encouraging Open Data Environment in the introduction and development of more sustainable forms of transport. Its objective Tel Aviv – Yafo 6 is to have 1 million electric vehicles on German streets by 2020. REGIONAL NEWS However, achieving this ambitious objective has The first cards for the general public will be issued by Baltic Sea Region proven to be much more difficult than originally the beginning of 2015. These will be valid as a ticket Competence Centre on expected. Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact for public tranport and sharing services, in addition sustainable urban mobility that today there are only a few thousand registered to opening the door to many other services, making launched 2 electric cars in Germany, the government has it a real ‘citizen’s card’. decided to stick to this goal. The strategy is to involve PROJECT NEWS and link all actors dealing with electro mobility, to The project goes hand in hand with the action 7th International Cities for include strong monetary encouragement for the plan ‘Moving sustainably in Stuttgart’ initiated Mobility Congress in Stuttgart 4 private sector and research institutions, as well as the by the Mayor of Stuttgart, Fritz Kuhn, in order to establishment of an organizational framework for the considerably reduce the number of conventional CITY PROFILE canalization of grants. motor vehicles driving in and out of the inner city Welcome to Galatina 5 every day. Today, Stuttgart can be considered one of In 2012, the Government selected four so-called the forerunners of electro mobility in Germany, thanks CIVINET NEWS 7Showcase Regions for Electric Mobility, providing to its extensive network of public charging stations €180 million in funding for demonstration and and to the proportionally high number of electric CIVITAS FORUM research projects. Stuttgart Services is one of these vehicles registered here. Additionally, no city in the funded projects. It envisions a service card supported world has a higher number of car-sharing vehicles Register now for the CIVITAS FORUM 2014 by an internet-based platform to offer the citizens per citizen, including the 520 electric cars from the in Casablanca! 8 standardised, easy access to all means of public provider car2go. In this way, Stuttgart is contributing transport and other mobility services such as (electric) substantially to attaining the objective of increasing CITY EVENT 8car-sharing and bike rental. Yet one of the most the number of electric vehicles on German streets. innovative aspects of the project is the extension of the offered features to other urban services (including For more information on the Stuttgart Services project libraries, public pools, parking facilities and local please visit the website: www.stuttgart-services.de CIVITAS ONLINE city offices) as well as the provision of a payment or contact: [email protected] www.civitas.eu is your portal to the function and a loyalty program which enables users CIVITAS Initiative. Visit the CIVITAS to pay at shops with the same card. Stuttgart is the coordinator of the CIVITAS 2MOVE2 website to learn more about the CIVITAS project Forum City Network, the ambitious policies and innovative measures many The concentration of all these services in one card of its members have implemented, and will reduce access barriers to electro mobility and how you can learn more about these at motivate users to travel more sustainably. the annual CIVITAS Forum Conference. With regularly updated news and events sections, the site is your one stop shop for sustainable urban mobility! 1 Simply go to our website 1 http://www.civitas.eu MOVE The CIVITAS Initiative 18 | July 2014 Quarterly Newsletter CITY NEWS All parking spaces available to Malaga’s citizens The ParkHelp project is a prime ex- The system will be implemented in regulated motorised traffic, with an overall improvement ample of Malaga’s commitment to parking zones, so the software associated of Malaga’s citizens quality of life. technological innovation in sustain- will not only enable traffic authorities to re- able mobility ceive parking occupancy data in real time, For any information contact Filippo Maria but also to identify possible payment fraud, Contenti, [email protected] Malaga is introducing an exciting new system optimising management of parking areas in- helping drivers on the road in finding parking. volved in the scheme. Malaga is member of the CIVITAS 2MOVE2 This system transfers the underground parking project guidance concept to the road, informing drivers Among other features, the service enables about the nearest available parking place. users to pay via mobile platform. It envisions a free smartphone app and a website that The associated infrastructure involves detection complement information showed on boards and data transmission via wireless sensors about the number and location of available installed in parking places, as well as several parking places. By doing this, the time for panels to be placed on key urban traffic spots finding parking places is reduced, as well providing drivers with information on parking as congestion and pollution generated by availability. REGIONAL NEWS Baltic Sea Region Competence Centre on sustainable urban mobility launched BSR competence centre on SUMP Within the CIVITAS DYN@MO project, the changing requirements, as well as at Baltic Sea Region Competence Centre on cities only starting with SUMP prepa- Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) was ration. As part of the online platform, established and aims at bringing together the a separate section in Polish has been knowledge and best practice on sustainable dedicated to Polish cities who wish urban mobility planning in the Baltic Sea to evolve from traditional transport Region. The aim of the competence centre is plans toward SUMPs. The compe- to assist cities in developing their SUMPs by: tence centre is led by the University ■■ providing information and support of Gdansk, supported by the UBC ■■ supporting the exchange of knowledge Commissions on Environment and and experiences Transport and the City of Gdynia. ■■ offering training on the SUMP process Visit the BSR Competence centre on The Good Examples database, documents SUMP online platform at www.bsr- containing SUMP-related cases from the re- sump.eu / http://polska.bsr-sump. gion, is one of the key services provided by eu/ the competence centre. The services are tar- geted at cities already familiar with SUMPs For any information contact: Rusanen and willing to improve and adjust them to the Maija, [email protected] 2 MOVE The CIVITAS Initiative Quarterly Newsletter 18 | July 2014 CITY NEWS Gdynia: Intelligent Transportation Systems help introduce mobility management measures The use of modern transport-related technol- Implementation of new ogies can improve traffic management, sup- technologies in transport port planning and design of transport systems provides access to data solutions, enhance current traffic organisation which can power transport and offer tools for dialogue with inhabitants. models. These models will Implementation of the Traffic Management help reduce expenses and System TRISTAR in Gdynia is ongoing, includ- time related to transport re- ing the basic layout of the Tricity streets with search and data collection, about 160 intersections and pedestrian cross- in addition to increasing ings equipped with traffic signals and stations the accuracy of modelling measuring traffic parameters. The network and improving the quality also features communication infrastructure of transport models. (including optical fibre cables) with a length of about 150 km, installation of 60 video sur- For information contact: veillance cameras (CCTV), 60 cameras for ve- Jacek Oskarbski, hicle identification (ANPR), about 70 variable [email protected] message signs at public transport stops, and more than 25 variable message signs for driv- Gdynia is member of the ers and equipment. Some 700 public transport CIVITAS DYN@MO project. vehicles will boast transmitters and on-board computers to manage the vehicles and assign priorities in traffic signals. The CIVITAS DYN@MO project, which the City of Gdynia is a part of together with Aachen, Koprivnica and Palma de Mallorca, is also Gdynia developing a multi-level transport systems model of the city. The model will be fed with data from detection systems located in the architecture and infrastructure of the TRISTAR CIVITAS WEBINAR - GREEN VEHICLES FOR URBAN FREIGHT DELIVERY system using localisation devices in vehicles, Next CIVITAS webinar on Green vehicles for urban freight delivery to be held on mobile phones and navigation devices Thursday 24th July, at 15.00. Register
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