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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Within the framework of its Sustainable Urban Mobility campaign, the European Commission today launched the EU’s first award to encourage the adoption of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) by local and regional authorities. Under the inaugural theme ‘stakeholder and citizen participation’, local and regional authorities can submit their applications for the award of EUR 10 000.
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Results and Lessons of the long term evaluation of the CiViTAS initiative
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An overview of the concept of SUMPs - sustainable urban mobility plans
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Urban sustainable mobility experts please apply for the posts of junior and senior consultant at Rupprecht Consult by 20 Sept. 2012.
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Answers to the 20 most frequently asked questions related to Pedelecs are given in the new brochure To cycle electric or not to cyle... It is the last publication of the PRESTO project.
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On 21 September, the United Nations Development Programme is holding a workshop on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Following a very positive evaluation result the European Commission has invited the TRANSFORuM project for official project negotiations. The proposal gained 14 out of 15 points in the recent call of 7th European Framework Programme.
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A new FP7 project that will foster the take-up of 15 innovative concepts for urban mobility is currently under negotiation with the European Commission. The tentative starting date is October 2012. The project will be coordinated by Polis. Rupprecht Consult will be in charge of the technical coordination and supports the topic of non-motorised transport.
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Venice, Torino, Munich, Lyon, Vienna, Nova Gorica, FernUni in Hagen and UIRS have submitted the PUMAS project in the final call of the Alpine Space Programme. The programme has approved the joint proposal on 28 June 2012. The project will start in September 2012 and end in June 2015. Alpine Space cities face common urban mobility challenges which call for innovative & cost-effective mobility solutions. PUMAS (Planning sustainable regional-Urban Mobility in the Alpine Space) offers these solutions. It coordinates the development of the sustainable regional-urban mobility planning (SUMP) concept which the EC strongly promotes and, in its 2011 Transport White Paper, even suggests as a mandatory approach.The PUMAS partnership is a complementary consortium aiming to: advance SUMP, which focuses on participation, integration, evaluation, and cost internalisation, as a new paradigm in mobility planning; develop, implement & evaluate 6 pilots using SUMP methods and tools; [...]
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TROLLEY is all about knowledge exchange, competence building and competence sharing on trolleybuses. Therefore, TROLLEY has developed an eLearning module and the European Trolleybus Knowledge Centre to further contribute to promoting the trolleybus as a smart, clean and green urban transport solution. The eLearning module about trolleybus basics aims at trolleybus novices and can be accessed via the project’s website (registration window). The module enables users to learn quickly and conveniently all about trolleybus basics regardless of distance and time. The module is available in English but designed in a way that also those not speaking English fluently can take part. Two more modules (about energy storage systems for trolleybuses and the take-up of trolleybus systems) are expected for the end of 2012. The three modules will build up a full trolleybus eLearning course. Furthermore, TROLLEY established a European Trolleybus Knowledge Centre. It shall serve as main European [...]
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