The European European Agency's annual Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism report (TERM 2013) provides impetus for the European-wide take-up of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. Read more
CIVITAS CAPITAL is supporting the take-up of sustainable urban mobility measures in Europe through an Activity Fund. This co-financing mechanism will encourage the transfer of successful measures from ‘pioneer’ cities to ‘take-up’ cities. Read more
CIVITAS DYN@MO is pleased to announce the second edition of its DYN@MO Summer University, 14 - 16 May 2014 in Palma. The topic of the event is "How to learn more about city and citizen friendly electric vehicles".Read more
RC staff member Miriam Lindenau has successfully completed the World Bank’s MOOC “Turn down the heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided”. The five-week course covered climate projections for the 21st century including droughts, heat waves as well as sea-level rise and the implications on food and water security.Read more
On 30 November 2013 the CIVITAS DYN@MO project has completed its first project year.Read more
The TRANSFORuM project held its 2nd Joint Forum Meeting in Vienna on January 28th and 29th 2014. It was a continuation of the 1st Joint Forum Meeting (Gdansk, June 2013) and four theme-specific workshops in the autumn 2013. The purpose of all TRANSFORuM events is to listen to and learn from stakeholders and practitioners in various fields of transport and mobility. This is a crucial approach for TRANSFORuM because its ultimate outputs – roadmaps towards a better mobility future – will have to be “stakeholder-driven” in order to have any likeliness of being accepted and implemented. The stakeholders attending the Vienna event represented the four thematic areas, which TRANSFORuM focuses on: Clean urban mobility, long distance freight, high-speed rail and multi-modal travel information and ticketing systems; each of them corresponding to one goal in the European Commission’s Transport White Paper from 2011. Stakeholders therefore represented, to name just a few, a large rail [...]Read more
An extensive web-based summary of the CIVITAS DYN@MO Summer University on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans held in Palma on 26-28 June 2013 is now available from: http://gitmot.uib.es/USB%20Summer%20University/START.htmlRead more
We thoroughly enjoyed this year's cooperation with you, our business partners, clients and friends, and are looking forward to staying in contact with you in exciting activities in the new year.Read more
On December 20, the team got together at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnology in Cologne. Read more
On 11 and 12 December 2013 the ACTUATE consortium came together for a successful mid-term partner meeting in Salzburg, Austria. In addition, external experts from other EU-funded projects in the field of professional driver training participated in an ACTUATE meeting and contributed to a vivid discussion and inspiring knowledge exchange. After a short welcome note by the host Salzburg AG, day one began with the presentation of the first of a series of ACTUATE e-learning modules. Within ACTUATE individual e-learning courses will be developed for hybrid buses, trams and trolleybuses. Over the next months all partners will integrate the e-learning courses into their in-house campaigns aiming to encourage drivers to use their newly acquired eco-driving skills in their daily routine.Also the partners reported on first evaluation results regarding training quality and energy savings achieved during the training sessions and in daily operation. Test drives conducted in real traffic as part [...]Read more
Over 45 participants from all over Europe attended CH4LLENGE’s second SUMP Challenge Training Workshop which focused on institutional cooperation in sustainable urban mobility planning.Read more
The Guidelines on Developing and Implementing a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, written by Rupprecht Consult, were released on 17 December 2013 in conjunction with the official announcement of the European Commission’s Urban Mobility Package. Read more
The SOLUTIONS project website has been launched on November 27.Read more
TRANSFORuM’s fourth theme-specific stakeholder workshop was held on November 25 – 26 2013 in Basel, Switzerland. This was the last of our workshop series in the autumn of 2013; a second series of four workshops will be held in the spring 2014.Read more
Ten experts from 7 countries attended TRANSFORuM's first workshop on high-speed rail, representing a variety of stakeholder organisations.Read more
Rupprecht Consult has been invited to participate in urban mobility planning seminars in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul. Read more
An interactive workshop on innovative transport ideas measures and how to transfer themRead more
Eco-friendly travel by rail instead of car and plane helps to reduce emissions, especially when the train is powered by "green electricity".Read more
TRANSFORuM's series of stakeholder workshop continues. Six more to come.Read more
On 6 November 2013, stakeholders from the German-speaking regions of Europe founded the association “CIVINET deutscher Sprachraum“ at the HOLM Forum in Frankfurt.Read more
TRANSFORuM combines face-to-face stakeholder events with online tools such as the newly created thematic group surveys.Read more
The TIDE project has selected 53 cities from 23 countries to participate in the learning and exchange opportunities through its Circle of Innovative Cities Read more
TRANSFORuM continues its stakeholder involvement process with four thematically specific workshops in the autumn of 2013.Read more
On October 16, 1998, Rupprecht Consult changed from a single enterprise to a limited company (GmbH). Read more
Fact sheets on cycling infrastructure and promotion from the PRESTO project are now available in RussianRead more
We are happy to present you with the second issue of the TIDE newsletter. With the first year of the project over, the TIDE 'handbook for transferability analysis in urban transport and mobility' has been completed and the build-up to the local innovation forums and implementation scenarios for take-up is gaining full momentum. This newsletter also reports on the Cost-Benefit Analysis workshop that took place in Budapest. The city which enters the spotlight this time is Milan. With the planned extension to its road user charging zone and the plan to equip every parking lot with sensors able to control and apply sanctions for infringements, this municipality has clear aspirations to further advance urban transport. Click here to read the second TIDE newsletter!Read more
The European Commission today signed a grant agreement worth €4 million with a consortium of 14 European research institutes, associations and consulting companies — including 10 SMEs — for a three-year project known as "Civitas Capital".Read more
Electric buses take center stage in 27 cities in 15 European countriesRead more
The dates and locations for this years thematic workshops have been confirmed! Read more
Related project updates, key moments from our workshop in Gdansk, interview with Jolanta Skalska and more!Read more
The TIDE project is offering learning and exchange opportunities through its Circle of Innovative Cities - Application Deadline is 20 September 2013Read more
Transferring Walking Innovation in the European ContextRead more
The Baltic Sea Region Competence centre on Sustainable Urban Mobility PlanningRead more
Over 70 international participants attended!Read more
In line with TRANSFORuM's commitment to full transparency and accountability we provide the minutes of the 1st Joint Forum meeting, which was held in Gdansk on June 24 and 25. Please visit the event webpage for a summary and links to the actual minutes. We are also pleased to report that the keynote speakers from Gdansk kindly agreed make their presentations publicly available on the TRANSFORuM website: Monika Bak: EU Transport Policy from the Perspective of the White Paper 2011 Dr hab., Prof. UG, Chair of Comparative Research of Transport Systems. Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk Stefan Back: Civil society and the EU White Paper on transport policy – the EESC experience Chairman of the Permanent Study Group on Transport Policy White Paper Implementation, European Economic & Social Committee (EESC) and Director sustainable logistics TransportGruppen Sweden David Banister: TRANSFORuM: Challenges and Opportunities Professor of Transport [...]Read more
ACTUATE's project coordinator Rupprecht Consult visited Gdynia's public transport operator PKT to exchange knowledge on safe eco-driving training concepts for trolleybuses.Read more
Two important TRANSFORuM documents were recently approved by the European Commission and are now available!Read more
TRANSFORuM is now on Facebook, LinkedIn and TwitterRead more
The NRW.ProjektArbeit invited Rupprecht Consult on 10 July 2013 to present the PRESTO project (2009-2012) in the framework of a workshop focusing on “Bike stations Phase 2 – Inspiration, Innovation, Initiative”. Read more
The TROLLEY Roadshow Report provides an overview of the Roadshow events which took place between May 2011 and February 2013 in the TROLLEY partner cities across Europe. It contains information about the identification of relevant target groups, the development of key messages to be sent and provides insights into the planning process and realisation of each of the local events. You can download a PDF copy of the Roadshow Report here.Read more
From 2nd to 3rd July, urban transport professionals from 27 European cities gathered in Gent to discuss how to enhance participation processes in the development of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP). The workshop was hosted by the City of Gent, one of the most advanced cities in stakeholder involvement and citizen participation. Gent is a partner city in the EU-co-financed project CH4LLENGE, which offers project partner cities and follower cities four in-depth training workshops, each dedicated to one SUMP challenge. This first workshop took a closer look at participation concepts and methods in the SUMP process. With support of the workshop organizer POLIS (Ivo Cré) participants reflected on the status of their SUMP processes and talked about main barriers to progress in SUMP. They shared experiences of different participation approaches tested in their cities. Rupprecht Consult as the coordinator of CH4LLENGE presented the concept for the involvement of follower cities [...]Read more
On June 24th / 25th 2013, over 70 transport experts from all of Europe followed TRANSFORuM's invitation to its 1st Joint Forum Meeting in Gdansk. Half of the attendees were external stakeholders, including CEOs of leading transport companies, top-level management representatives of authorities as well as policy makers such as Pawel Stelmaszczyk, Head of the Unit Intelligent Transport Systems within DG Move at the European Commission.They all brought their real-world experience in one of the following topics to the discussion: Clean Urban Transport and CO2-free city logistics Shift of road freight to rail and waterborne transport Complete and maintain the European high-speed rail network European multimodal information, management and payment system These are four key goals (no. 1, 3, 4 and 8 respectively) of the 2011 Transport White Paper to whose implementation TRANSFORuM aims to contribute.The event was kick-started with a very informative keynote speech of Prof. Monika Bak [...]Read more
On 18 June 2013, urban mobility and energy stakeholders gathered for the first time to discuss synergies between the EU-promoted concepts of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) and Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP). Read more
Rupprecht Consult is part of the new project "ENDURANCE" which brought together representatives from 30 partner organisations to its Kick-Off meeting in the Swedish city of Gävle on 28 May 2013 - one day prior to the European Conference on Mobility Management (ECOMM). The project assists cities and regions in developing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) by facilitating networking, mutual learning and sharing of experience and best practises across countries.Read more
SHAPE-IT Project kicks-off in SwedenRead more
Last week, on 12 and 13 June the ACTUATE consortium came together for a successful third Partner Meeting in Parma, Italy.Read more
Find out what the dyn@mic cities active for sustainable mobility are planningRead more
First TIDE newsletter online!Read more
Rupprecht Consult, who co-ordinates the TRANSFORuM project, welcomes this high level endorsement very much.Read more
Planning for People! Cycling promotion as part of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans Read more