Dear project partners, clients and friends, this year brought many changes, new challenges and fascinating tasks, and so will the next. We are looking forward to welcoming new staff and starting new projects. We wish you all joyful days with family and friends and a happy, successful year 2013! As usual, we have donated to “Ärzte ohne Grenzen” (Doctors without borders, Médecins sans Frontières.)
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Brazil adopted a national policy on Urban Mobility in early 2012 making it obligatory for any municipality with more than 20,000 inhabitants to develop an urban mobility plan by 2015.
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The ACTUATE partners met for the second time from 5 to 6 December 2012 and discussed their concepts for safe eco-driving trainings against the background of defined minimum criteria for the trainings.
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The new year will bring two more senior consultants, two more junior consultants and 2 additional trainees to Rupprecht Consult
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The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) organised a one day conference on 'Achieving the goals of the White Paper on Transport: how civil society can help with delivery' in Brussels, 7 December 2012. Rupprecht Consult presented practical experiences on participatory decision making in CIVITAS projects.
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The INTERREG NWE project SYNAPTIC is pleased to present the recently-published winner brochure for the 2011-12 SYNAPTIC Awards for Excellence in Seamless Mobility.
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The TIDE project gathered more than 60 participants from all over Europe for a workshop to discuss the potential of innovative urban mobility measures for urban areas. The workshop took place on 28 November 2012 in Perugia, Italy, and was a pre-event to the annual Polis conference.
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On 14 October 2012 the CIVITAS ELAN project with its five project cities Ljubljana, Gent, Zagreb, Brno and Porto has officially ended. At the end of the project a 372 pages book has been published summarising the results from the project from a scientific point of view. The full title of the book is: “Rethinking everyday mobility – Results and lessons learned from the CIVITAS ELAN project”.
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The European Territorial Cooperation currently runs an inclusive process for medium to long-term strategies and priorities for the Alpine Space – through stakeholder workshops in all Alpine countries and an online consultation (open until 10 December 2012)
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The TIDE projects invites to suggest and prioritise innovative measures in the field of pricing, non-motorised modes, advanced traffic management for traveller information systems, electric mobility and public transport organisation.
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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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