How can different vehicle types and actors use public transport charging infrastructure efficiently? How can green and locally produced energy be fed into the grid? How can this be planned for? And what can we learn from current innovative research projects about this fascinating topic?
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Last week, we organised a webinar on Urban Vehicle Access Regulations for the German speaking mobility community and the CIVINET, a network for cities to connect and exchange experiences on sustainable transport.
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Invitation to the webinar "Urban measures for vehicle restriction" of the CIVINET network of the German-speaking region
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A brand new SUMP Topic guide has just been released as a direct result of the findings from the SUNRISE project, which was coordinated by Rupprecht Consult. The guide describes the relationship between sustainable mobility planning efforts at the neighbourhood level and the city-wide (SUMP) level. It also provides tips on how synergies between these two planning levels can be maximised.
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After 4 years of workshops and project development to improve mobility in 6 pilot cities, we now look at all the results that the Horizon 2020 project has yielded.
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The TANGENT project started on 1 September 2021 as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme in support of the European Union’s Green Deal. TANGENT aims to develop new complementary tools for optimising traffic operations in a coordinated and dynamic way from a multimodal perspective and considering automated/non-automated vehicles, passengers, and freight transport.
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Leading city networks and research organisations team up to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions by 2030
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Last Monday 27 September, the SOLUTIONSplus Africa training program was launched. Around 50 local authorities and city representatives from various African countries joined and participated actively during the webinars.
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The meeting gathered city partners, counterparts, beneficiaries of the 19 projects and 5 actions of the EUROCLIMA+ Urban Mobility component.
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How can we increase the share of renewables in the transport sector, and what role can public transport play in this? That's our topic at the #EURegionsWeek.Join us at this cool online EfficienCE workshop, Oct. 12, 14:30-16:00!
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Lisa Blondrath (soon) holds a Master’s Degree in Business Engineering with a focus on Transportation from Bergische Universität Wuppertal. She wrote her Master Thesis on “the Integration of Automated Vehicles in the City of the Future” and was led to Rupprecht Consult through her last job at the Institute for Systems Research in Information, Communication and Media Technology at Uni Wuppertal, where she worked on a project on automated mobility. She is supporting the CIM team as trainee.
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Episode #5 "Cars or kids? Mobility planning at the neighbourhood level" is out now
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On Monday 20 September, the SOLUTIONSplus Latin American regional training started! Around 200 local authorities and city representatives from the Latin American region joined to discuss on e-mobility critical issues.
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Over 50 planners and stakeholders from Arequipa join the first Course on Resilience and Sustainably Mobility Planning.
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Our colleague Katy Huaylla co-authored a book chapter in the recently published Nectar Book: Transport in Human Scale Cities in August 2021
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The new EU-funded Project, Ride2Autonomy, will promote automated shuttles' integration into public transport.
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Webinar on parking management - in German only
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Be sure to save the date for the enlightening event on September 15, 2021 and register now. Be there and participate online or in presence in Aachen.
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The finale brochure of the trolley:2.0 project has been released. Read about the results of our research, demonstrators and the lessons learnt during the project. Among the concepts of In-Motion-Charging as a central element of a smart and sustainable trolley network and innovative solutions you will find project results on shared and multi-purpose charging infrastructure, lightweight designs for a new midi trolleybus type, automated cabling technology, concepts for the integration of renewable energy sources and tools for advanced cost-benefit analysis.
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Smaller cities and towns often have fewer resources and expertise for strategic mobility planning, making it more difficult to develop SUMPs.
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