Working together on sustainable mobility Good practices and challenges Klaas-Jan Gräfe City of Nijmegen, the Netherlands 23-11-2016 The Arnhem Nijmegen Region • 19 municipalities, incl. two cities • Gelderland province • Population region: 765.000 • Population Nijmegen: 172.000 • Modal split – Car: 52 % – Public transport: 18 % – Cycling: 30 % • Specialized in: – Health / education – Smart Energy – Sustainable Mobility The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 1 Cycling is the most sustainable way of transport Everyone likes to ride their bike The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 2 Cycling is in the DNA of the Dutch We associate cycling with happiness and joy The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 3 Regional network of Super Cycling Highways Working together to create a network of Cycling Highways, for example the RijnWaalpath between Arnhem and Nijmegen. The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 4 Result: high quality bikelanes: safe, fast, comfortable The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 5 Another example: sustainable public transport • Concession of 10 years: 2013 – 2023 • 218 buses on locally produced biogas • 45 trolleybuses, 3 H2 fuel cell buses • Greenest PT-concession of the Netherlands The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 6 How did we achieve this result? • Tender was executed by the Cityregion Arnhem Nijmegen • Shared ambition of the Cityregion and all the municipalities: sustainable buses. Worries about the costs • We developed the Green Cockpit: model to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership • At that moment, electric buses were not profitable yet, so we set out a transition-path: natural gas, biogas, H2 fuel cell • Private sector invested € 50 million because they had a guaranteed volume of biogas to sell during a 10 year period • Filling stations can also be used by others, e.g. garbage trucks and taxi’s The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 7 The results The lowest CO2 emission per traveller-km in the Netherlands The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 8 Barriers and challenges • No authority / government on the scale of the Daily Urban System Highly educated Medium educated The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 9 Barriers and challenges • Governmental borders do not match mobility-patterns The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 10 Barriers and challenges • Chicken or the egg? Our ambition: No more small pilots, but to take proven technologies to a larger scale The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 11 Barriers and challenges • Changing the mindset of people / breaking the daily patterns Mobilitymanagement How do we travel? Tariff differentiation Spread of schooltimes The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 12 Barriers and challenges • How to cope with or stimulate new developments like carsharing, bikesharing, autonomous cars? The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 13 Barriers and challenges • No formal collaboration on the scale of the Daily Urban System • Governmental borders do not match mobility-patterns • Chicken or the egg? • Changing the mindset of people / breaking the daily patterns • How to cope with or stimulate new developments? The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 14 Thank you for your attention! Questions? If you have questions later: [email protected] The Urban Development Network Inspire, innovate and exchange 15 .