The ELIPTIC consortium is pleased to welcome you to the first newsletter of ELIPTIC - a project that will shape the future and change the way electric public transport and rolling stock are integrated into existing electric infrastructure. The ELIPTIC newsletter aims to keep you informed about the project’s progress and intermediate results. In this first issue, you will learn about the ELIPTIC objectives and expected outputs as well as the work done so far. To read the newsletter, click here. Read more
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To celebrate her start at Rupprecht Consult, Alexandra baked a Rupprecht Consult cake for today's office meeting.Read more
Around 120 decision makers and transport technicians from local authorities interested in integrating innovations in their urban mobility policies, and professionals concerned by innovation in urban transport attended the Final Conference of the TIDE project (Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe) that took place in Barcelona on 15- 16 September.Read more
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Successful ending of Cycle to Work campaignRead more
The second issue of the SWITCH newsletter has just been released. The project is now officially half way through. Many activities have happened in the past months and we are pleased to present a round-up of developments from SWITCH and our implementation cities. Most cities have launched their local campaigns and have engaged with hundreds of individuals, children, parents, teachers, employees, and seniors, to get them on board and encourage a shift to walking and cycling or use of public transport. A set of fact sheets on the local campaigns (in national languages) are available to download from the website. Our SWITCH experts have worked hard to develop a sound methodology about how to apply the SWITCH approach to travel behaviour change campaigns. The SWITCH toolbox will guide you through all phases of a campaign from scoping to segmentation of the target audience, developing service packages and monitoring change. The SWITCH Toolbox will be unveiled to a wider [...]Read more
Learn about innovative solutions for fostering sustainable urban mobility in cities and regions around the world from the comfort of your office or home!Read more
Visit our project website for the most up-to-date information about FLOW: www.h2020-flow.euRead more
On September 1, Alexandra Kitzing started a 2,5 yearlong apprenticeshipRead more
Thursday, 21st October 2015, 09:00-17:00 EEST – ELECTRA Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki, Greece Public transport services in many rural and peri-urban areas are threatened by increasing private car use, changing demographics and reduced budgets. Read more
The Swiss high-profile research grouping on mobility invited Ralf Brand for a keynote about the European White Paper on Transport and the TRANSFORuM project. Read more
On 13 August the Rupprecht Runners completed their 2nd HRS Business RunRead more
ELIPTIC is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to develop new use concepts and business cases in order to optimise existing electric infrastructure and rolling stock, saving both money and energy. The project is coordinated by City of Bremen and will run between June 2015 and May 2018.Read more
Romania hosted the 2nd SUMP conference, an annual event organised by ENDURANCE, the European SUMP network, with the support of Eltis - the European Platform on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans.Read more
UITP has launched the EBSF_2 project (European Bus System of the Future 2) during its World Congress & Exhibition in Milan, a project that will continue the drive for bus system innovation that began under the first EBSF project.Read more
"The Roadmap to achieve EU goals on urban mobility" is the title of an article written by seven TRANSFORuM team members in the latest issue of the Eurotransport magazine. Read more
On 10-11 June about 45 representatives from the DYN@MO partnership met in Koprivnica, Croatia, for the project’s 3rd Consortium meeting to discuss the results of 30 months of DYN@MO cooperation. Read more
The project team has started off on the right foot, together refining the project’s activities and conceptual framework in Budapest, Hungary from 10-11 June 2015.Read more
The policy exchange between the cities of Groningen and Donostia/San Sebastian has earned the TIDE project first place in EPOMM’s 2015 Best International Policy Transfer Award.Read more
We are proud to present the main project outputs in a whole range of formats. Read more
The SWITCH project has released a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWY-hFEsdtZHqWq9H150OA Short interviews about the SWITCH project were given by project partners. All presentations of the last workshop in Gdansk in April 2014 were also filmed and can be seen on our new channel. It is worth watching them!Read more
The first car-free day in Cologne-Sülz was an overwhelming success and Traffic Snake Zora Zisch was part of itRead more
A new trolley brochure has been published by UITP.Read more
The workshop took place on the 28th May at the Annual Summit of the International Transport ForumRead more
16 - 17 June 2015, Bucharest, RomaniaRead more
SWITCH uses information and communication technologies (ICT), and personalised travel planning advice supported by strong health arguments to encourage people in a period of life change to switch from short car journeys to more walking and cycling. A leaflet with all important and relavant information about the SWITCH project is out now. Please downlaod it from our website. More information about the SWITCH project can be found on the project website: www.switchtravel.euRead more
The Ukrainian NGO FORZA translated this important guidance document.Read more
Both the SWITCH consortium and nearly 30 Follower Cities met for the first time in Gdansk. Title of the workshop was "Getting everyone on board – Follower Cities and SWITCH partners: Designing a Personalised Travel Planning campaign scenario." Aim of the workshop was to get familiar with the SWITCH project, share experience and first steps towards an implementation scenario with SWITCH components. All presentations from the workshop can be downloaded: www.switchtravel.eu/#!events/cvxx The Follower Cities within the SWITCH project are so far: Aarhus (Denmark) Almada (Portugal) Aviles (Spain) Bielefeld (Germany) Bologna (Italy) Cork (Ireland) Dresden (Germany) Ferrara (Italy) Heerhugowaard (Netherlands) Koprivnica (Croatia) Krusevac (Serbia) Ljutomer (Slovenia) Norwich (UK) Nova-Gorica (Slovenia) Oostende (Belgium) Palma (Spain) Ploiesti (Romania) Ponferrada (Spain) Prague (Chzech Republik) Reading (UK) Riga (Latvia) Skopje (Macedonia) Sofia [...]Read more
In the interview, our mission, approaches and main activities were revealed.Read more
Rupprecht Consult is currently negotiating three new projects with the European Commission.Read more
For our time-pressed audience we provided summaries of all of TRANSFORuM's key outputs.Read more
The TRAN Committee of the European Parliament invited TRANSFORuM for input to the hearing: "WHITE PAPER ON TRANSPORT: taking stock and the way forward towards sustainable mobility"Read more
The European project “ACTUATE - Advanced Training and Education for Safe Eco-driving of Clean Vehicles” focused on the importance of safe eco-driving of clean vehicles and provided public transport operators with the opportunity to introduce and test safe eco-driving trainings. The ACTUATE project ended January 31, 2015 and all project materials, e-Learning courses and a starter-kit are now available in a variety of languages. Read more
Three projects teamed up to present a workshop on integrating innovative mobility measures into sustainable urban mobility planningRead more
Siegfried Rupprecht presents today key results of the TRANSFORuM project at the EESC hearing "White Paper on Transport: where do we stand?"Read more
The FP7 project TRANSFORuM has just released its last newsletter with information about its key outputs. Read more
The third call of the CIVITAS Activity Fund will be launched on 30 March 2015, focussing on the uptake of CIVITAS tools and offering a total of 60.000 EUR. The CIVITAS Activity Fund aims to support take-up activities in the field of sustainable urban mobility to cities across Europe. Read more
Brochure is now available in our six SmartMove "partner" languagesRead more
Between 24 and 26 February 2015 the TIDE project saw over 60 participants in two workshops in Brussels. Topics of the events: making innovation happen, future research priorities and sustainable urban mobility planning.Read more
SOLUTIONS is offering six free online courses, moderated by experts in the field and offering opportunities to connect to mobility practitioners from all over the world through each course’s online discussion forum.Read more
The inevitable, delectable, obvious, eagerly awaited, wonderful Carnival did not spare our team this year either.Read more
Monday, 9 February marks the start of the SOLUTIONS online courses. Register now to gain free, unlimited access to courses on innovative solutions for fostering sustainable urban mobility!Read more
The "Recommendations on Joint Actions across Thematic Areas", which is one of the key outputs of the TRANSFORuM project is now available.Read more
By means of an electric mobility strategy and an action plan, the Hanseatic City of Rostock pursues a coordinated expansion of its previous e-mobility activities and the long-term establishment of e-mobility in the city and the region.Read more
The final partner meeting and conference of the ACTUATE project (Advanced Training and Education for Safe Eco-driving of Clean Vehicles) took place on December 11 /12 2014 in Brussels. About 30 stakeholders from public transport companies and associations, educational organisations and clean vehicle industry attended the conference on Friday December 12 to hear about the outcomes of the project and the potentials in energy consumption and emissions reduction through eco-driving. Read more
In solidarity with the victims of the cruel assassination of the Charlie Hebdo team.Read more
RC colleagues Miriam Lindenau and Susanne Böhler-Baedeker present state-of-the-art and new results on citizen and stakeholder involvement in sustainable urban mobility planning.Read more
Learn about innovative solutions for fostering sustainable urban mobility in cities and regions around the world from the comfort of your office or home!Read more
Did you miss the TIDE “brown bag lunch webinar” on integrating innovative transport measures into a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan?Read more