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Rupprecht Consult presented the Second version of the SUMP Guidelines at the Conference of the Parties, COP25 in Madrid, Spain

The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the supreme instance of decision in the Convention Framework of the United Nations about Climate Change (UNFCCC) and it’s 25th meeting was held in Madrid from 2-13 December 2019.

ReVeAL meets Jerusalem

Last week, the ReVeAL project made a short stop in Jerusalem.

SUMP concept and H2020 Project ReVeAL part of the new Thinking Cities Magazine

Polis network released the newest version of their regularly published Thinking Cities magazine

Results from Road Transport Research in H2020 projects

The SUNRISE project was presented at the conference “Results from Road Transport Research in H2020 projects” on Dec. 5 2019 in Brussels

Learn more about ReVeAL on the brand-new project website

Today, the official website of the ReVeAL project was launched. The new website offers a comprehensive overview of the project, including essential information on ReVeAL, such as its approach, key outputs, pilot cities and partners.

Meeting with Budapest's new leading team around Gergely Karácsony

Our team members Kristin Tovaas and Ralf Brand met Budapests new mayor Gergely Karácsony on Nov. 7 to exchange thoughts about Budapest's successes, challenges and future plans in terms of sustainable urban mobility.

First face-to-face meeting of GECKO stakeholders in London

Stakeholder input is a cornerstone of the GECKO project. So much is happening so fast in the realm of disruptive mobility that the only way to begin to understand it and to start to see patterns is to talk to those directly involved. GECKO has been doing this for several months through online exchange but we had our first face-to-face meeting with 24 stakeholders from across Europe and beyond on 24-25 October in London. Stakeholders came from large and small private industry representatives, local and regional authorities and public transport authorities and associations, NGOs and research. Stakeholders were asked for their input and experience with questions of collaboration between the public and the private sector, types and level of regulation and other factors influencing the successful implementation of new mobility solutions. The output of the workshop will feed directly into several GECKO activities ranging from a map of regulations to an analysis of cooperation models [...]

Idea Jam Challenge 2019 - What challenges does Automated and Connected Transport bring?

International multi-disciplinary teams will compete online for the best idea

Videos introducing the new SUMP Guidelines

Four videos about our new SUMP Guidelines have been recently released on Eltis, the European Urban Mobility Observatory.

Siegfried Rupprecht received the CIVITAS Lifetime Award of the European Commission

During a surprise ceremony at the closing plenary of the CIVITAS Forum conference 2019 in Graz on 4 October 2019, the award was presented by Marcel Rommerts, head of transport research at INEA, the EU’s Innovation and Networks Executive Agency, and by Herald Ruijters, director at the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission.

Watch the new SUMP Guidelines webinar

Curious about the brand-new SUMP Guidelines? You can learn more about them with the freshly recorded webinar video.

New trainee at Rupprecht Consult

Last week, Wolfram Buchta joined the team for a 12-month programme.

ReVeAL session at the CIVITAS Forum

Some of the concepts behind the newly-begun ReVeAL project were brought into the session at CiViTAS Forum conference called “Making the Transitioning to Urban Vehicle Access Regulations”, which was moderated by Bonnie Fenton from Rupprecht Consult.

Please join us at the AlpInnoCT Final Conference in Brussels on 19 November

The AlpInnoCT consortium is pleased to invite you to participate in the project’s Final Conference – Working together for Combined Transport in the Alpine Space - that will be held on 19 November 2019 at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU in Brussels.

Second edition of SUMP Guidelines released at CIVITAS Forum

We are proud to present the second edition of the European Guidelines for Developing and Implementing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan. The release of the document featured strongly at the CIVITAS Forum last week, including a high-level handover by the European Commission in the opening plenary, a keynote presentation by main author Rupprecht Consult, and a dedicated session. The Guidelines can now be downloaded on our website and on Eltis: https://www.eltis.org/mobility-plans/sump-guidelines

Booklet and exhibition shine light on CIVITAS success story cities

At the CIVITAS Forum 2019 in Graz, a new booklet and exhibition outlining the success stories of six CIVITAS cities were launched.

GECKO at Shared Mobility Rocks

Join the GECKO project at Shared Mobility Rocks 2019 on Tuesday, 8 October in Brussels. Our jam session (Governance for Micro-Mobility Solutions) will be on Stage 1 at 10:50 (although rock stars don’t usually get up that early…). E-scooters blocking your streets? You can’t connect to the shared bikes in town? Come and hear our panelists discuss the issues surrounding new mobility and how they can be addressed. What’s important for service providers? What are the main concerns of cities? What do users want? Come and listen in and pick up the mike yourself if you’ve got a song to sing.

Join CIVITAS ECCENTRIC and LOW-CARB on the 17th of September 2019

- Register to secure your spot today!

Respond to CoEXist's new online survey on Automation-readiness!

The survey will be open until 6 October 2019, and it will be available both online and at our CIVITAS Forum 2019 exhibition stand.

Zhytomyr is the first Ukrainian city to adopt a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan

On 20 June 2019, Zhytomyr in the Ukraine became the first Ukrainian city with an officially approved Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP).

LOW-CARB: Internal Workshop on measure package evaluation in Leipzig

On August 20th 2019 LOW-CARB partners LVB (lead partner), MDV and the City of Leipzig as well as the associated partners ZVLN, IVAS and Rupprecht Consult meet in Leipzig to discuss measures on low carbon mobility, developed for the Citys FUA.

Successful first Strategie E user forum for software-supported planning of electric bus fleets in Oberhausen

On 10 July, the first user forum with representatives of transport companies from all over North Rhine-Westphalia took place, as part of the Strategie E project at the project partner STOAG in Oberhausen

Guiding Europe towards automation-ready SUMP processes

Read the new practitioner briefing on "Road Vehicle Automation in sustainable urban mobility planning" and send us your feedback!

The draft programme for the CIVITAS Forum 2019 is now available to read and download!

Spanning three days from 2-4 October, the 2019 edition of Europe's top transport event will be held in Graz (Austria).

Application deadline extended for this year's CIVITAS Awards

Towns and cities are invited to apply by the new date of 31 July 2019 to be in with a chance of winning Europe's most prestigious prizes for clean urban transport.

Build your own SUNRISE Co-creation scenario in 6 hours! [FREE OF CHARGE] - Register now for the E-course on co-creating sustainable mobility at the neighbourhood level! [Live from 2-30 September 2019]

Join our interactive learning community of transport practitioners from cities across Europe

SUMP 2.0 GUIDELINES FEEDBACK SESSION WITH UITP & INTERREG CE PROJECTS

On May 6th 2019, public transport experts from CE countries met in Brussels at the UITP headquarters to give their feedback about the update of the European SUMP Guidelines.

Rupprecht Consult recently participated in updating and testing the SUMP Self-Assessment Tool for Central European contexts, as part of the LOW CARB project.

Three representatives of the Krakow Functional Urban Area met on May 29th, 2019 with LOW CARB partners to learn, use, and provide feedback about their experience with the tool. Discover what the new tool can do, and RC’s role, and why it was a huge success for it most recent users.

With Superblocks, Low-Emission-Zones and innovative future solutions towards liveable cities

The Kick-Off Meeting in Bielefeld officially started the new ReVeAL project

SUMP Conference Groningen 2019: Successful presentation of the new guidelines

Last week the latest conference on SUMP took place in Groningen and the Rupprecht Consult team was well presented with several presentations, the introduction of the new SUMP Guidelines and feedback sessions on the new concept.

Let's make LOW-CARB a 2019 REGIOSTAR

REGIOSTARS is an annual awards competition organised by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy to showcase innovative EU-funded projects. This year LOW-CARB was selected as a nominee, and is one of 25 excellent EU projects in category 4, "building climate resilient cities".

Proud to share the public draft of the SUMP Guidelines second edition

We have published the draft second edition of the European SUMP Guidelines for stakeholders and practitioners to review and provide feedback. Online feedback is invited until 9 July 2019 and the revised Guidelines will be discussed in detail at the sixth annual SUMP Conference in Groningen, 17-18 June 2019.

Best Environmental Management Practice for the Public Administration Sector

Sole contract partner with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre

New intern at Rupprecht Consult

Zhi Xin Hoo joins the People-Focused Mobility Team

Successful start of requirements workshops with Strategie E pilot users

Together with ebusplan, Rupprecht Consult develops a planning software for public transport operators and companies that is aimed to support them in the introduction of electric buses into their fleets. Central to the further development of the planning software, is to match as closely as possible the needs of users in the transport companies. For this purpose, a series of workshops was held with the pilot users Kölner-Verkehrsbetriebe AG, Stadtwerke Oberhausen AG and WestVerkehr GmbH on the software requirements. The aim was to query the central needs of the transport companies for such planning software and to adapt further product development to the requirements of the users in the best possible way. At the three initial workshops in Cologne, Oberhausen and Geilenkirchen in February, the general situation in the respective transport company was first of all surveyed and existing plans for the use and procurement of electric buses or information on the operation of existing [...]

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CIVITAS Forum 2019 – Registration open – Calls for contributions, exhibitors and sponsors published

The CIVITAS Forum Conference 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria, from 2-4 October 2019. The 17th edition of Europe’s top sustainable urban mobility event will gather the leading figures in the field from across the continent and beyond.

SUMP Village, driverless metro and other highlights of SUMP Learning Programme 3

The highly successful SUMP Learning Programme 3 came to an end with its third workshop in Budapest. 24 participants from cities all around Europe discussed sustainable urban mobility planning, with a focus on action planning, monitoring and implementation. As icing on the cake they got the chance to visit the control centre of the driverless metro in the end - and to ride with it of course.

New trainee at Rupprecht Consult

Lisa Marie Brunner joins the People-focussed Mobility Solutions and Integrated Planning teams

Urban Nodes workshop hosted by the municipality of Venlo, 8th of February 2019

About 40 representatives from Venlo, Sofia, Piraeus, Bilbao, Antwerp, Cologne, Tallinn and the Vital Nodes project came together in Venlo on February 8th 2019 to discuss how freight transport can be made sustainable on all levels of the transeuropean transport network: on the local, the metropolitan and on the corridor level.

Gdynia wants to be “core urban node”

A Vital Nodes workshop took place in Gdynia, March 13th, with several members of the Gdynia Planning Department, Department for Analysis and Cooperation and public transport providers.

Urban Nodes Forum in Budapest April 3-4 2019

For the first URBAN NODES FORUM in Budapest, about 90 participants from urban nodes came together.

Register now for the SUMP Conference 2019

Registrations are now open for the 6th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP), which will take place on 17 and 18 June 2019 in Groningen, The Netherlands.

First workshop for developing a SUMP for Kyiv-Podilskyi district

On 22 February, the first public workshop for the development of a SUMP for Kyiv-Podilskyi district was held successfully.

Rupprecht Consult team member new trolley:motion president

We congratulate our colleague Wolfgang Backhaus on his new role as president of trolley:motion - an association supporting modern zero emission bus systems.

Carnival in Cologne

From today on, Cologne is "upside down" until Ash Wednesday

SUMP 2.0 - reshaping the EU SUMP Guidelines

For the past six years, the SUMP Guidelines have acted as the main reference document for urban transport and mobility practitioners and other stakeholders involved in the development and implementation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs).

Last week to apply for funded SUMPs learning programme for cities

The CIVITAS SUMPs-Up project has launched a call for cities to take part in its next SUMP Learning Programme (SLP). Up to 25 planning authorities have the chance to join SLP 5, which will start in May 2019. This group of mobility practitioners will complete the Expert Group of 90 SUMP cities. Programme format and content The six-month SLP module combines knowledge transfer, testing and assessment with learning on concepts, approaches, tools, and methodologies for Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) development. The activities blend online and face-to-face learning and exchange. Participants also benefit from one city-to-city review and a one-to-one support session from SUMPs-Up mobility experts. SLP 5 will focus on SUMP implementation, financing and procurement. Activities will include writing and reviewing a SUMP action plan, monitoring and evaluating the impact of measures, procuring services, and identifying new challenges. Who should apply? SUMPs-Up is seeking mobility and [...]

Intensive SUNRISE week

The SUNRISE project started in May 2017, which makes it sensible – one and a half years into the project – to take stock, to reflect and to plan in detail for the next phase and – ultimately – for the time until the end of SUNRISE in April 2021.

New intern at RC

Simon Uhr joined us in January and will stay until April 2020. He will support our team especially in the LOW-CARB and Strategie E Projects.