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Cities.multimodal – urban transport system in transition towards low carbon mobility
cities.multimodal
 
PROGRAMME 2014-2020
priority
3 Transport
objective
3.5 Urban mobility

cities.multimodal

The Interreg project cities.multimodal presented environmentally friendly alternatives to driving, enhanced sustainable urban mobility planning for multimodal transport in ten cities and introduced six mobility points and smartphone-based travel planning.
The challenge

In recent years multimodality in cities has become more integrated and more visible in city planning. New business models and modality modes are constantly emerging and triggering new decisions to be taken. As hubs for the economic development the cities are striving to provide citizens with easy, well-functioning and environmentally friendly transport options. At the same time, the cities and urban areas are facing concrete problems with ever-increasing congestion, growing CO2 emissions, noise caused by heavy car-traffic and accessibility problems partly as a consequence of missing intermodal links.

In order to upgrade multimodality, the cities need a collaborative approach by involving politicians, urban planners, public transport operators, industry as well as inhabitants. Targeted measures and better incentives for shifting from driving to more environmentally friendly alternatives would enhance multimodality and make it an integrated part of city planning process.

Budgets

cities.multimodal
in numbers
  • 3.78
    Million
    Total
  • 2.91
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.09
    Million
    Eni + Russia
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway

Achievements

Incentives created

The project has successfully developed the sustainable urban mobility plans, established new mobility points, launched campaigns and introduced living street initiatives. Being driven by citizens, campaigns and living streets ensured stronger commitments and enhanced a better incentive structure. Visualization of how a city could look like in the future simplified understanding what could be done concretely. For 10 city partners, Rostock, Aarhus, Gdansk, Vilnius, Guldborgssund, Karlskrona, Pskov, Riga, Tartu, the multimodal city concept has become a reality.

Additionally, the project has enhanced mobility management in city quarters, schools and companies. Transnational collaboration among the participating cities resulted in a transfer of good practices. Thus, inspired by mobility points in cities like Ghent and Bremen, the participating cities got better insights into the process and found their own way through successful implementation.

Better guided and equipped

By developing guidance on sustainable urban mobility management and a handy toolbox with targeted solutions to concrete challenges, the project has provided the needed framework for public organisations like kindergartens, schools, as well as commercial and industrial companies. Aimed at enhancing institutional capacity, the supporting guide has provided better insights to the mobility mindset of the participating cities, the selection of pilot areas, planning approaches as well as the undertaken measures.

In addition, the project has evaluated the activities implemented within the project´s lifetime in order to show which measures had a major impact on successful implementation. The cities´ specific features were taken into consideration and a possible transferability of practices was accessed. Next, the project has also made multimodal travel planning analysis with a focus on web- and mobile-based travel planning applications. Based on market research, web-based applications and interviews, the analysis provided a comprehensive overview of ICT solutions tailored for different scenarios.

The Interreg project cities.multimodal used EUR 3.54 million from the European Union to find a more environmentally friendly way to driving and improving the citizens´ quality of life.

Outputs

Planner’s Handbook

The Planner’s Guide to Sustainable Urban Mobility Management inspires mobility and transport planners, politicians and NGO’s who wish to take their city’s multimodality to the next level. The Guide gives an insight to the mobility mindset of the participating cities, the chosen pilot areas, planning approaches and implemented measures.

Project Stories

Partners

Hanseatic City of Rostock

German Cyclist´s Association Schleswig-Holstein e.V.

Technische Universität Berlin, Center for Technology and Society

Municipality of Karlskrona

City of Kalmar

Municipality of Aarhus

Riga City Council

City of Gdansk

The Polish Union of Active Mobility

Vilnius City Municipal Government

Public transport department

Tartu City Government

Union of the Baltic Cities Sustainable Cities Commission c/o City of Turku

Institute of Baltic Studies

Pskov City Administration

Guldborgsund Municipality

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