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What can public transport do to support sustainable workplace mobility?
Predominant car-traffic infrastructure, shortage of public transport services, and hostility to active mobility are challenges that many cities face at the periphery of their cities. To support sustainable workplace mobility, public transport can develop a key role when planning for low-carbon mobility offers beyond administrative boundaries, as the general service area usually reaches into or covers the functional urban area (FUA). Thus, public transport operators can reach out to all important stakeholders and users, to understand their perspectives and needs. As mobility providers and planners, they have the expertise to co-develop solutions to mobility problems. This was realized in an integrated planning process at the level of the FUA in both Leipzig (DE) and Szeged (HU), based on a continuous dialogue with local companies in the planning areas, which resulted in the development of detailed action plans for sustainable workplace mobility for the two planning areas.
The close communication and interaction with their target group in the LOW-CARB project enabled the public transport operators LVB and SZKT and their partners to develop integrated measure packages that support attractive, intelligent, connected and, above all, intermodal mobility offers – from bus and rail, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic to sharing systems. Furthermore, the dialogue was used to create awareness and acceptance of existing low-carbon transport offers and to promote active mobility.
Find out more in the LOW-CARB recommendations for low-carbon mobility planning with companies in suburban areas (in EN).
And here is the way to all our other LOW-CARB resources including, e.g., our handbooks for low-carbon mobility pilots and strategies in all central European languages.
Gecko Webinar: How to regulate automated vehicles on March 24, 15-16:30
Join the GECKO project on Wednesday, 24 March at 15:00 – 16:30 CET for a webinar on Managing New Mobility: How to Regulate Automated Vehicles The webinar will provide an overview of regulations around automated vehicles in jurisdictions across Europe and beyond. A local authority (Michael Glotz-Richter, Bremen, Germany) and an expert on the regulatory perspective (Caroline Busquet, Absiskey) will share their views and present their priorities in navigating this emerging technology. Your participation in the following discussion is welcome! To reserve your spot, register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3742261905224230160
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LOW-CARB proudly presents its pilots & strategies handbooks
Planning for integrated and low-carbon mobility for public transport was at the heart of the LOW-CARB project. This was achieved when planners in municipalities, public transport authorities, and private companies joined forces to cooperate beyond their respective administrative, departmental, and organizational boundaries.
Our two newly released handbooks elaborate on how we created good planning practices in our pilot measures and development of IT-based tools, and provide strategic approaches to governance and data-based planning for practitioners.
Learn about our low carbon pilot measures and their potential for transferability: Read now in EN » (also available in all central European languages here)
Explore strategic approaches to governance and data-based planning for low-carbon mobility. Read now in EN » (also soon available in all central European languages).
Hello to SUMP in Bosnia and Herzegowina!
Nerman Palic is a researcher and lecturer at the University in Sarajevo and at the “CEPS-Center for Business Studies” in Kiseljak, where he works at the Faculty of Transport and Communications. “My area of interest is sustainable urban mobility and all the concepts on which it is based, such as the development and promotion of the use of urban public transport, traffic safety, planning, and environmental awareness in traffic.” We are happy to have you on board at the SUMP-Central, especially as we can link to your website where you promote the concept of sustainable urban mobility planning in Bosnia and Herzegowina in local language.