Project Details

Project goal

Activity 1: European Urban Mobility Observatory and Support including Web Portal Management, SUMP-Related Activities

• Hosting and management of the Eltis portal
• Keeping the Eltis portal up-to-date by including new content such as news items, case studies and video clips, and by preparing regular newsletters
• Promoting the uptake of SUMPs in Europe, including
  • Hosting SUMP guidance, covering both the overall SUMP concept, SUMP Guidelines themselves, as well as supplemental guidance provided in Practitioner Briefings and Topic Guides
  • Monitoring city-level activities in the development of SUMPs
  • Providing access to existing SUMPs through the City Database
  • Providing access to SUMP good practice examples (case studies and videos), tools and news items on the Eltis portal
  • Developing further, and disseminating, SUMP Guidelines
  • Maintaining a strong network of cities, through national SUMP contact points
  • Providing access to SUMP Guidelines and supporting guidance, in a selection of European languages
  • Improving the SUMP Self-Assessment Tool (https://www.sump-assessment.eu)
• Organising regular meetings of the Coordination Group of the European Platform on SUMPs
• Organising the Urban Mobility Days Conference in 2022

Activity 2: Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators (SUMI) and Benchmarking Tool

• Updating and improving the SUMI indicators available from transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/clean-transport-urban-transport/sumi_en
• Improving the benchmarking tool available from the same website
• Cooperating with 100 European cities to calculate the indicators and providing assistance to these cities through city-specific support, a SUMI secretariat, trainings and a data acquisition fund

Results

• Improved Eltis portal
• Regular provision of new content on Eltis portal
• Publication of regular Eltis newsletters
• Eltis presence on social media channels
• Updated SUMP guidance
• Improved SUMP Self-Assessment Tool
• Improved SUMI indicators and benchmarking tool
• 100 European cities which have calculated the indicators

Project partners

• Ricardo UK Limited, Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom
• Rupprecht Consult GmbH, Cologne, Germany
• Polis, European Cities and Regions Networking for Innovative Transport Solutions, Brussels, Belgium
• TRT Trasporti e Territorio Srl, Milano, Italy
• Transport & Mobility Leuven (TML), Leuven, Belgium
• Vision5 OG, Graz, Austria
• UITP - International Association of Public Transport, Brussels, Belgium
• Transport and Environmental Policy Research (TEPR), Crowborough, United Kingdom
• Ecorys Nederland BV, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Marlon bvba, Ghent, Belgium