Project Details

Project goal

SOLUTIONS - Sharing Opportunities for Low Carbon Urban TransporTION

SOLUTIONS' overall objective was to make a substantial contribution to the uptake of innovative sustainable mobility solutions in cities across the world by:

• Facilitating dialogue and creating networking opportunities, and sharing experience on topics of common interest
• Promoting European transport policy and urban transport solutions offered by European industry around the world
• Providing guidance and tailored advice to city officials through several regional analyses and specific implementation examples
• Fostering future cooperation on research and development
• Promoting innovative platforms for knowledge exchange between European cities and cities across the world.

SOLUTIONS addressed a variety of regions, i.e. the Mediterranean, Asia (in particular China and Singapore) and Latin America. SOLUTIONS brought together some of the leading experts and city networks from these regions, aiming to foster knowledge exchange and boost the uptake of innovative sustainable urban mobility solutions through the further exploitation of existing knowledge, focusing primarily on policy and the assessment of implementation processes.

Building upon previous experience in Europe, China, Singapore and Latin America, as well as the experience gained during the various phases of this project, the SOLUTIONS transferability guidelines aimed to bring about detailed steps towards the uptake of innovative sustainable urban mobility solutions and technologies in Europe and beyond.

The cities selected for the various phases of this project represented a range of comparable urban environments in the target regions. The focus was less on mega-cities and more on second-tier cities, aiming in that way to achieve a high level of transferability.

The regions addressed in this project presented different levels of maturity in terms of experience with sustainable urban mobility related actions. This was addressed by adopting different approaches to these regions.

SOLUTIONS focused on testing the transferability of innovative sustainable mobility solutions around six thematic clusters

1. Public transport
2. Transport infrastructures
3. City logistics
4. Integrated planning/Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans
5. Network and Mobility management
6. Clean vehicles

Results

SOLUTIONS aimed at the following results:

• Develop and implement the take-up of innovative and green urban transport solutions (e.g. network management, clean vehicles, public transport, transport infrastructure, city logistics), which are adapted to the specific framework conditions of cities across the world. Beyond a structured take up of innovative solutions, the action will develop recommendations for future cooperation between European cities and cities across the world and in particular from Latin American Countries, China and Singapore.
• Share experiences of topics of common interest and propose innovative and green urban transport solutions (e.g. in the area of public transport, transport infrastructure, city logistics), which are adapted to the specific framework conditions of cities from Mediterranean partner countries. The action will develop recommendations for future research cooperation.
• The proposal should take into account the results of previous and on-going EU research activities on international cooperation and other projects, which have developed results at European level of great interest for international cooperation. Appropriate links with the related bilateral research cooperation frameworks should be established.

Project partners

• Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie, Wuppertal, Germany
• Rupprecht Consult GmbH, Cologne, Germany
• Polis, European Cities and Regions Networking for Innovative Transport Solutions, Brussels, Belgium
• ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH, Freiburg, Germany
• ICLEI South Asia, ICLEI SEA, Quezon City, Philippines
• EMBARQ México, Centro de Transporte Sustentable de Mexico Asociacion, Mexico City, Mexico
• EMBARQ Brasil, Centro de Transporte Sustentavel do Brasil, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• World Resources Institute Inc, WRI, Mumbai, India
• EMBARQ Turkiye Sud, Surdurulebilir Ulasim Dernegi, Istanbul, Turkey
• EMBARQ Andino, Arequipa, Peru
• CERTH - The Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
• FEHRL - Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories, Brussels, Belgium
• UN-HABITAT - United Nations Human Settlements Programme
• IFSTTAR, l'Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l'aménagement et des réseaux, Marne la Vallée, France
• AustriaTech (ATE), Federal Agency for Technological Measures Ltd., Vienna, Austria
• CATS - China Academy of Transportation Sciences, Beijing, China
• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IIT, Haifa, Israel
• Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), Manila, Philippines
• LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Lisbon, Portugal
• Mobility-T, Tunis, Tunisia
• ICCT - The International Council on Clean Transportation, Berlin, Germany
• Zaragoza Logistics Center, ZLC, Zaragoza, Spain
• AVERE - The European Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, Association européenne pour la promotion des véhicules électriques à batterie, hybrides et à pile à combustible, Brussels, Belgium

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