The workshop was part of the European project “ACTUATE - Advanced Training and Education for Safe Eco-driving of Clean Vehicles” and took place in Salzburg on 7 May 2014.Read more
12 external stakeholders gathered in Europe's "Green Capital" to discuss the implementation of the Transport White Paper. Read more
Following an exhibition of artwork by Franz Wieland and Claudia Böse, our walls now host photographs most of which have been captured by Rupprecht Consult's employees.Read more
On May 1st, Hana Peters started work in Cologne.Read more
On April 28, Kristin Tovaas joined the team.Read more
Ralf Brand gave a guest lecture at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul on April 22nd 2014. The title of his talk was “The role of technology, citizens and technizens in the sustainable city”. The deliberate hybrid term technizen signals his proposal to steer clear of simplistic technical or social “fix” approaches in the discourse around sustainable urbanism. Instead, Ralf argues for a “synchronisation” or “co-evolution” between social and technical change. The audience consisted of staff and final-year students of Bahçeşehir’s architecture programme, which offers a special focus on sustainable architecture and urbanism. Ralf followed an invitation of Prof. Bengü Uluengin, assistant dean of the faculty.Read more
Rupprecht Consult were very pleased to attend the SmartMove kick-off meeting in Vienna on 8th and 9th April, hosted by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU - Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien). Read more
The successful Flemish campaign Traffic Snake Game enters a new era. Aim of this game is to stimulate young children to walk and cycle to school. Starting next school year, after summer holidays, the campaign will be implemented in at least 18 European countries. Preparations behind the scenes have just started as the kick-off meeting of the newly installed Traffic Snake Game Network took place in Leuven, Belgium.Read more
We are happy to present the third issue of the TIDE newsletter. With the project being half way, the 65 TIDE cities have completed their first training workshop and are currently preparing for the second training event: ‘Making innovation reality, how to get started’. In addition to a summary of the first workshop that took place in Stuttgart, this newsletter also features an article about the TIDE Innovation toolbox: 15 inspiring transport measures that can change your city. In this issue, the city of Donostia/San Sebastián is put in the spotlight. The 2016 European Capital of Culture has extensive experience in the field of www.tide-innovation.eusustainable mobility. Pedestrians and cyclists have a strong presence and in 2013 the city commissioned the first 100% electric public bicycle sharing system. You will also find the latest news from the other TIDE cities and an overview of upcoming events across Europe which you may [...]Read more
On March 31st, Siegfried attended the ceremony in Brussels.Read more
Transport Innovation Transferability Workshop: Best Practice Examples from TIDE and SOLUTIONSRead more
Learn about innovative mobility solutions in your own office or home on your own scheduleRead more
Timothy Durant, geographer and city & regional planner, joins the Team on April 7. Read more
Four further thematic stakeholder workshops will be organised by TRANSFORuM for the spring of 2014. The purpose of these events is to consolidate the 2.0 draft version of the roadmaps. Read more
Our latest newsletter contains information about our previous work and events and also includes an outlook at our forthcoming spring workshops, main deliverables and final conference.Read more
CIVINET members can – in their mother tongue - get to know and better assess concepts and experiences of other cities as well as European mobility policies and plannning concepts and their effects on the members‘ own situation. Read more
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