Planning for People! Cycling promotion as part of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans
Read moreThe event was co-organised by the European Commission DG RTD and the China Centre for Urban Development (CCUD) of the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC).
Read moreWith great enthusiasm, the project team fine-tuned the project's framework and activities in Cologne, Germany from 21-22 May 2013.
Read more50 stakeholders covering the whole spectrum of actors related to our four White Paper goals will convene in Gdansk for the first joint forum meeting.
Read moreKoprivnica recently celebrated Earth Day 2013, an event centered around the sustainable iniatives of local businesses, kindergartens, schools, civil society and local agencies.
Read moreThe 11th annual CIVITAS Forum Conference will take place between 30th September and 2nd October
Read moreThe Workshop will bring experts in the field of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) and Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) together. Transport and energy practitioners from local authorities are invited.
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Read moreTROLLEY is about knowledge exchange, competence building and competence sharing. In order to benefit from the great potential of online education, two new e-learning courses have been developed.
Read moreThe first DYN@MO Summer University will take place in June, on the topic "Emerging in a dynamic dialogue for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP)."
Read moreThe CIVITAS Website provides an overview of the DYN@MO Project and its role in Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning.
Read moreSee what a seamless journey in Northwest Europe could look like in 2030
Read moreAs part of the project outputs the ACTUATE partners are developing training materials for safe eco-driving of clean vehicles. These training materials enable other public transport operators to train their own drivers in a tried and tested manner and are available for download as of today.After receiving positive feedback from drivers during pilot trainings for trolleybuses (Salzburg, AT) and hybrid buses (Leipizig, DE) and attaining promising results regarding energy optimisation of these clean vehicles*, ACTUATE is now looking for partners to test the developed training concepts.Thus, if you would like to test and implement the safe eco-driving training concepts for your own drivers, don't hesitate to contact ACTUATE's project coordinator (w.backhaus[at]rupprecht-consult.eu) and find out more about the possibility to test the trainings and about the availability of training materials.Training materials are available for trolleybuses and hybrid buses in German already and more [...]
Read moreThe three-year project “CH4LLENGE - Addressing Key Challenges of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning” has officially started on 21 March 2013. It is funded by the Intelligent Energy – Europe (IEE) Programme, Energy in transport (STEER) funding area.
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Read moreThe concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) will be promoted as a new way of urban mobility planning in Slovakia
Read moreRound Table discussion on SYNAPTIC Seamless Mobility Action Plan to take place in Brussels
Read moreELTISplus held its final SUMP Workshop in Cologne on 19 March 2013. The event was hosted and moderated by Rupprecht Consult. It brought together fifteen urban mobility experts from eight countries to discuss how the draft "Guidelines on Developing and Implementing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan" could be improved and updated. The final version of the SUMP Guidelines is expected to be released in May 2013.
Read moreDespite harsh weather conditions across Western Europe, a well-attended workshop on the future of electric public transport took place in Brussels last Tuesday, 12 March 2013. Together with representatives of the European Commission and Central Europe programme, electro mobility experts from academia, the public and private sector discussed the potential of trolleybuses for the electrification of public transport and for reaching Europe’s zero emission targets in the near future. As one highlight of the event, TROLLEY project partners handed over a collection of TROLLEY Declarations signed by 70 different stakeholders across Europe to the European Commission (photo from left to right: Frank Schneider, JTS Central Europe; Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, DG RTD, European Commission; Hugue van Honacker, DG MOVE, European Commission; Gunter Mackinger, Director Salzburg AG). The high number of signatories proves the widespread support of trolleybuses as a sustainable electric mode of [...]
Read moreWe are happy to welcome another new team member, the last one for the time being.
Read moreJoin us for the TROLLEY Research and Innovation Roadmap - Workshop & Presentation
Read more22 experts from nine countries gathered in Cologne from Febuary 20th to 22nd for the kick-off meeting of the TRANSFORuM project.
Read moreThe event was a big success, bringing together political leaders and project partners from all four participating cities together to collaborate, learn, and establish the solid foundation of what will surely be a fruitful partnership.
Read moreOn "Weiberfastnacht" (Women's Carnival or Women's Thursday), women take over in Cologne and other cities along the Rhine.
Read moreOn February 1 , Ralf Brand joined Rupprecht Consult.
Read moreThe mission of TRANSFORuM is to contribute to the transformation process towards a competitive and resource-efficient European transport system by engaging key actors to participate in a stakeholder forum and to implement its recommendations.
Read moreLast week on 22 and 23 January Szeged (HU) hosted TROLLEY’s final conference.
Read moreAs the first ACTUATE project partner, Salzburg AG held training sessions for more energy-efficient and safe driving of clean vehicles this week.
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Read moreCIVITAS DYN@MO will hold its first Consortium Meeting and Project Kick-off in Aachen, Germany, between the 28th and 30th of January 2013.
Read moreThe SYNAPTIC project is hosting a series of round tables with stakeholders in mobility in Europe. The next one is taking place in Brussels on 30 January.
Read moreToday, Ana-Maria Baston joined the growing RC team.
Read moreThe mission of the TIDE project is to enhance the broad transfer and take-up of 15 innovative urban transport and mobility measures throughout Europe and to make a visible contribution to establish them as mainstream measures.
Read moreThe first week of 2013 not only brought a new trainee, but also a new junior consultant: Bernard Gyergyay.
Read moreDear project partners, clients and friends, this year brought many changes, new challenges and fascinating tasks, and so will the next. We are looking forward to welcoming new staff and starting new projects. We wish you all joyful days with family and friends and a happy, successful year 2013! As usual, we have donated to “Ärzte ohne Grenzen” (Doctors without borders, Médecins sans Frontières.)
Read moreBrazil adopted a national policy on Urban Mobility in early 2012 making it obligatory for any municipality with more than 20,000 inhabitants to develop an urban mobility plan by 2015.
Read moreThe ACTUATE partners met for the second time from 5 to 6 December 2012 and discussed their concepts for safe eco-driving trainings against the background of defined minimum criteria for the trainings.
Read moreThe new year will bring two more senior consultants, two more junior consultants and 2 additional trainees to Rupprecht Consult
Read moreThe European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) organised a one day conference on 'Achieving the goals of the White Paper on Transport: how civil society can help with delivery' in Brussels, 7 December 2012. Rupprecht Consult presented practical experiences on participatory decision making in CIVITAS projects.
Read moreThe INTERREG NWE project SYNAPTIC is pleased to present the recently-published winner brochure for the 2011-12 SYNAPTIC Awards for Excellence in Seamless Mobility.
Read moreThe TIDE project gathered more than 60 participants from all over Europe for a workshop to discuss the potential of innovative urban mobility measures for urban areas. The workshop took place on 28 November 2012 in Perugia, Italy, and was a pre-event to the annual Polis conference.
Read moreOn 14 October 2012 the CIVITAS ELAN project with its five project cities Ljubljana, Gent, Zagreb, Brno and Porto has officially ended. At the end of the project a 372 pages book has been published summarising the results from the project from a scientific point of view. The full title of the book is: “Rethinking everyday mobility – Results and lessons learned from the CIVITAS ELAN project”.
Read moreThe European Territorial Cooperation currently runs an inclusive process for medium to long-term strategies and priorities for the Alpine Space – through stakeholder workshops in all Alpine countries and an online consultation (open until 10 December 2012)
Read moreThe TIDE projects invites to suggest and prioritise innovative measures in the field of pricing, non-motorised modes, advanced traffic management for traveller information systems, electric mobility and public transport organisation.
Read moreThe CIVITAS ELAN project has published its 6th newsletter, summarising project activities and achievements of the last months.
Read moreRupprecht Consult has launched a trainee programme for EU project managers for promising young professionals.
Read moreTROLLEY held a series of events during the week from 22 to 26 October 2012 in Leipzig in the framework of the new mobility/ Euregia fair 2012.
Read moreAs signatory no. 145, Siegfried Rupprecht has today signed a Declaration initiated by EU Vice President Siim Kallas to support the Connecting Europe Facility. Other signatories include major infrastructure owners, industry and operators of transport services from all sectors have signed a declaration calling on senior EU policymakers to support and approve the Connecting Europe Facility. The future of the Connecting Europe Facility is reaching a critical phase as Member States are expected to decide the EU’s budget for 2014-2020.
Read moreRupprecht Consult presented the EU’s SUMP concept at the PUMAS Kick-off Meeting in Venice on 10/11 October 2012
Read moreThe CIVITAS ELAN consortium has published a publication “Citizen Engagement in the Field of Mobility” presenting the work and the lessons learned related to the citizen engagement activities implemented in the CIVITAS ELAN project between 2008 and 2012 in the five partner cities Ljubljana, Gent, Zagreb, Brno and Porto.
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