The Smart Move project promotes the use of public transport in rural areas through the active mobility consultancy (AMC) concept. The central objective of the project is to promote the use of existing public transport services via a personalised travel marketing approach. As part of the SmartMove project we have developed a free, easy-to-use online course that offers insights into the SmartMove approach. It provides background information and presents the first-hand experiences of SmartMove project partners. The course discussion forum allows you to discuss your concerns and questions with other participants and the project team. In addition, every Tuesday between May 24 and June 28 we are offering virtual office hours. Please contact us between 10:00 and 12:00 and we will provide our assistance and advice on developing an AMC campaign. Please click here to access both the course and the forum. The SmartMove team!Read more
Registration now open! June 22, Cologne, GermanyRead more
The project team has gathered for their 3rd consortium meeting in Lisbon, Portugal - which included an Exchange Cities workshop and Lisbon local forum from 27-29 April 2016. Read more
Joint Traffic Snake Game Workshop successfully held at Rupprecht Consult from 10-11 May 2016Read more
The first ELIPTIC - CiViTAS webinar took place on the 29th of April 2016. The webinar was entitled “Optimised braking energy recovery in electric public transport systems” and it is the first of a series of three scheduled throughout the ELIPTIC project. Read more
It was the principal annual event for all those involved in turning the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan concept into practice.Read more
Practical advice for campaigns to promote a switch from car-based travel to active modes of travelRead more
The SWITCH online course has been made open to the public on Rupprecht Consult’s learning platform www.mobility-academy.eu/SWITCH. The course is among the key outputs of the SWITCH project, which supports cities that wish to organise and run campaigns that encourage citizens to “switch” short urban trips from their car to active modes of travel such as walking and cycling. The SWITCH methodology is based on four key elements: - Personalised Travel Planning, that is, individually tailored support for individual people through information, advice, recommendations for cycling routes etc. - Positive and personalised health arguments to highlight the direct and concrete benefits one can gain from active transport. - Use of ICT tools that can monitor, reward and remind people of active mobility routines; this is intended to deepen new forms of mobility to lasting habits. - A focus on people in a so-called life change moment (e.g. when they [...]Read more
Article published about German traffic snake “Zora Zisch”Read more
“Transport in action: boosting the takeup of sustainable urban mobility solutions”Read more
The last Russian Fact Sheets from the Infrastructure section are now available for downloadRead more
Breda University students joined our company for a study tripRead more
Available on CH4LLENGE and ELTIS websites in March 2016Read more
Service contract "Towards a Single and Innovative European Transport System"Read more
Cycling Measures - A Cause of Congestion or a Solution to It?Read more
... like dressing up for Weiberfastnacht or Wieverfastelovend (Women's Carnival)Read more
In 2015, we at Rupprecht Consult saved 10.961 kg of CO2 by travelling by rail rather than car.Read more
After TRANSFORuM’s final outputs have already been released in 2015, the project has now officially been closed. We take this as an opportunity to invite everyone to again to peruse its key publications, mainly the four roadmaps towards the following goals of the European White Paper on Transport: o clean urban mobility o long-distance freight o high-speed rail o multimodal transport information, management and payment systems In addition, TRANSFORuM also resulted in “Recommendations on Joint Actions across Thematic Areas” and a “Strategic Outlook” document, looking beyond 2030. These documents and more are available on our own website and on the project library. Enjoy reading!Read more
The SUMP Conference is the principal annual event for all those involved in turning the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan concept into practice. Be one of the 300 delegates from across Europe to attend this free event. An outline agenda and the online registration are now available on the Eltis website. Read more
A happy new year from the DYN@MO consortium!Read more
Embracing active travel for healthRead more
Example of a successful campaign in the Liszki District near Kraków.Read more
Featuring examples from Kreis Euskirchen (DE) (webinar will be held in German)Read more
Final draft is now published!Read more
Public transport operators, authorities and cities met on 13 November in Berlin to discuss the needs and requirements for optimizing electric public transport in the 1st ELIPTIC User Forum.Read more
The SWITCH progress meeting was held in our office in Cologne on December 1st and 2nd. Participants from Gdansk (Poland), Antwerp (Belgium), Vienna (Austria), Donastia/San Sebastian (Spain) and London Borough of Hounslow (UK) successfully presented first results from their behaviour change campaigns. RC is responsible for Follower Cities which would like to adapt the SWITCH approach to a local campaign. 11 cities have already drafted an implementation scenario for their cities which will be reviewed by our technical partners like Walk21, the European Cyclist’s Federation, and more. In a meeting break nearly all participants took advantage to test the new bike sharing system in Cologne. Not even the bad weather could stop the group. And a big compliment to Steven Windey (red circled) who cycled to the progress meeting! His starting point was his hometown Antwerp. Nearly 250 km for one way. Congratulation Steven! That is a real commitment and shows that not only short car [...]Read more
Fourth SmartMove newsletter releasedRead more
Apply now to become one of 9 Exchange Cities or 25-30 Follower Cities!Read more
Newsletter#5, November 2015 Read more
SWITCH Final Conference, 14 April 2016 Bremen, GermanyRead more
On this day of official mourning we join our friends in France and across Europe in commemorating the victims of the recent atrocities in Paris. Our sympathies are with everyone who has lost friends or relatives through these acts of violence. We declare our solidarity with all who are working for stronger cooperation and a better understanding of people from different cultures and backgrounds in Europe. Through our projects, we are trying to make a small contribution to this historical process of reuniting Europe - in hope for a more equitable and peaceful world. Siegfried Rupprecht, on behalf of the entire Rupprecht Consult team.Read more
Is your mobility plan a genuine Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan? You can now find out using the free, online SUMP Self-Assessment Tool available on www.eltis.org The SUMP Self-Assessment Tool has been designed to enable planning authorities to quickly assess the compliance of their plan with the European Commission’s SUMP Guidelines (January 2014). Self-assessment is based on a set of 100 clear and transparent yes-no questions that follow the steps in the well-known SUMP preparation cycle. By working through the questionnaire during plan preparation or once a plan has been finalised, planning authorities can gain feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of their approach. For anybody who is not yet familiar with the concept or the terminology, the Self-Assessment questionnaire is also linked to a newly published online version of the SUMP Guidelines, an informative SUMP Glossary and a range of online learning resources on the Mobility Academy website. On 20 November 2015, the [...]Read more
CIVITAS DYN@MO makes City of Koprivnica a Smart City by winning the Cities-of-the-Future-Inpuls-2015-AwardRead more
Between 9 – 12 November 2015, the ELIPTIC partners came together for a succesful consortium meeting in Leipzig, Germany. In addition, two ELIPTIC local technical workshops were organised in conjunction with the 10-11 November partner meeting, namely on 9 November 2015 in Leipzig and on 12 November in Eberswalde. Read more
Welcome to the first issue of our FLOW newsletter! The mission of the FLOW project is to put walking and cycling on an equal footing with motorised modes as a solution to tackle urban congestion, by developing a user-friendly methodology, involving traffic modelling, to assess the effectiveness of walking and cycling measures. FLOW is supported by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission. The FLOW newsletter aims to keep you informed about the projects progress and intermediate results. In this first issue you will learn more about the FLOW objectives, expected outputs and the work done so far, as well as about the exciting opportunities for cities to join the project through our Exchange and Follower city programmes. Each issue will also put one of the FLOW cities and partners in the spotlight starting with Budapest and the European Cyclist Federation. We encourage you to stay informed and sign up to receive the newsletter at www.h2020-flow.eu. We wish you a [...]Read more
At the CIVITAS Forum 2015 in Ljubljana the CIVITAS DYN@MO project presented two recently published new brochures focusing on electromobility and sharing schemes. The brochures are the two final ones of a series of four brochures that each focus on one specific topic addressed by the DYN@MO project.Read more
He has been awarded a German Chancellor Fellowship to research Non-Motorised Transport, Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning, and Integrated Urban Transport in collaboration with Rupprecht Consult. Read more
Rupprecht Consult has developed a pioneering SUMP Self-Assessment Scheme that is currently undergoing a period of testing by planning authorities and mobility practitioners. The free, online self-assessment tool enables planning authorities to demonstrate the compliance of their mobility planning process with the European Commission‘s Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) concept. Based on the plan-making steps of the „Guidelines – developing and implementing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan“ (January 2014), the self-assessment scheme comprises 100 questions divided into nine sections. These cover the early stages of planning, such as the commitment of a city to sustainable mobility principles, through to scenario development, mobility measure selection and finally plan adoption. The rationale for providing a SUMP self-assessment tool and the structure of the scheme were explained during webinars held on 22nd and 29th October 2015. The subsequent pilot phase for testing of [...]Read more
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