The CIVITAS ELAN project has published its 6th newsletter, summarising project activities and achievements of the last months.
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Rupprecht Consult has launched a trainee programme for EU project managers for promising young professionals.
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TROLLEY held a series of events during the week from 22 to 26 October 2012 in Leipzig in the framework of the new mobility/ Euregia fair 2012.
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As signatory no. 145, Siegfried Rupprecht has today signed a Declaration initiated by EU Vice President Siim Kallas to support the Connecting Europe Facility. Other signatories include major infrastructure owners, industry and operators of transport services from all sectors have signed a declaration calling on senior EU policymakers to support and approve the Connecting Europe Facility. The future of the Connecting Europe Facility is reaching a critical phase as Member States are expected to decide the EU’s budget for 2014-2020.
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Rupprecht Consult presented the EU’s SUMP concept at the PUMAS Kick-off Meeting in Venice on 10/11 October 2012
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The CIVITAS ELAN consortium has published a publication “Citizen Engagement in the Field of Mobility” presenting the work and the lessons learned related to the citizen engagement activities implemented in the CIVITAS ELAN project between 2008 and 2012 in the five partner cities Ljubljana, Gent, Zagreb, Brno and Porto.
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The new TIDE project (FP7) on the take-up of urban transport innovation started on 1st October 2012. The project is coordinated by the city network Polis. Rupprecht Consult is in charge of the technical coordination and will support the thematic area of non-motorised transport.
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The concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) will be promoted as a new way of urban mobility planning at the new mobility conference in Leipzig.
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Share your examples of innovation in mobility by the end of 2012 for a chance to win a free trip to the 2013 ECOMM conference in Gävle, Sweden.
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At the 10th CIVITAS Forum in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), CIVITAS ELAN city Porto won for its smart phone travel planning application and DYN@MO city Gdynia made it to runner-up in the Technical Innovation category.
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Rupprecht Consult staff member Sebastian Bührmann held a Master Lecture on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans at the well-attended PIMMS CAPITAL Conference in Birmingham on 25th September.
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Rupprecht Consult cooperates with the "Transport and Urban Life" Commission of UITP in the preparation of a UITP Focus Paper on sustainable urban mobilty planning
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Frank Wefering presented the concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) at a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) workshop in Belgrade on 21 September 2012.
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Today, the CIVITAS ELAN Final Brochure was officially published and distributed during the CIVITAS Forum in Vitoria-Gasteiz taking place from 24-26 September 2012. The brochure summarises the main results and achievements from the five project cities: Ljubljana, Gent, Zagreb, Brno and Porto.
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Our CENTRAL EUROPE project "Trolley - Promoting electric public transport" has been chosen as project of the week by the European Commission’s DG Regional Policy.
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The technical training seminar in Helsinki is targeted at local planners and implementers in Finland.
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At the first Aachen Conference on Mobility and Transport (ACMOTE) and the 13th Aachen Congress on Mobility and the City (AMUS) on 14th September 2012, Rupprecht Consult together with the City of Aachen presented "Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans in Europe" and its application in Aachen. The Conference, organised by the Technical University of Aachen, addressed the future shaping of mobility in cities and scientists, practitioners, researchers and developers discussed a variety of themes related to mobility and transport. ACMOTE forms an ideal platform for interdisciplinary exchange between transport and urban planners, traffic management, transport related information technology, road and rail transport engineering and decision makers from the political and administrative level.The presentation and discussion on SUMPs in Europe confirmed that there is growing need for exchanging between different disciplines and promoting a multi-stakeholder approach for advancing a new mobility [...]
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Each European Mobility Week focuses on a particular topic related to sustainable mobility, the so-called focal theme. This year, the motto is "Moving in the right direction"
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Bernd Decker from Rupprecht Consult participated at the Sixth Session of UN-HABITAT's World Urban Forum (WUF6) which was held in Naples from 1-7 September 2012. The World Urban Forum is a biennial expert forum established by the United Nations General Assembly to address the pressing challenge of rapid urbanisation and its impacts on communities, cities, economies and the environment. Under the overarching theme "The Urban Future" the Dialogue Session on urban mobility, energy and environment brought together experiences and knowledge gained in addressing the urban mobility challenge. The Future City calls for a new paradigm which embraces new approaches to urban planning and design such as "giving the street back to citizens", creating public spaces, establishing more robust public transport systems and promoting active modes of transport such as walking and cycling as feeders to public transport systems. In a special event on Sustainable Transport following Rio+20 [...]
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The German Government approved today the National Cycling Plan 2020 (Nationaler Radverkehrsplan 2020 NRVP)
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