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What is the CIVITAS Initiative about?

• The CIVITAS Initiative is an integrated approach
• to clean urban transport, which supports
• demonstration projects integrating both
• technologies and
• transport policies
• in clean urban transport, stressing both
• the energy and
• the transport elements

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CIVITAS CItyVITAlitySustainability

• Funding programme of DG TREN in the 6th framework
  programme
• Participants
• CIVITAS I (2002-2006) 19 cities in 4
  demonstration projects
• CIVITAS II (2005-2009) 17 cities in 4
  demonstration projects
• 2 horizontal support projects (METEOR, CIVITAS
  GUARD)

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The Demonstration Projects

• CIVITAS II
• CIVITAS-SMILE Malmö, Norwich, Potenza, Suceava,
  Tallinn
• CIVITAS-MOBILIS Toulouse, Venice, Ljubljana,
  Debrecen, Odense
• CIVITAS-CARAVEL Genoa, Krakow, Burgos, Stuttgart
• CIVITAS-SUCCESS La Rochelle, Preston, Ploiesti
• CIVITAS I
• CIVITAS-TELLUS Rotterdam, Berlin, Göteborg,
  Bucharest, Gdynia
• CIVITAS-VIVALDI Bristol, Bremen, Nantes,
  Aalborg, Kaunas
• CIVITAS-MIRACLES Rome, Barcelona, Winchester,
  Cork
• CIVITAS-TRENDSETTER Stockholm, Graz, Lille,
  Prague, Pecs

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Key elements for CIVITAS CIVITAS is
coordinated by citiesCities are in the heart
of local private public partnershipsPolitical
commitment as a basic requirementCities are
Laboratories learning and evaluating
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Background Information

• 36 cities all over Europe
• Volume of funding by EU 100 Mio
• Total budget over 300 Mio
• Objectives
• to promote and implement sustainable, clean and
  efficient urban transport
• to implement and test real change by integrated
  packages of technology and policy measures in
  the field of energy and transport in 8
  categories of measures
• building up critical mass and markets

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CIVITAS Measures (1)

• Energy-efficient, cost-effective and clean public
  and/or private vehicle fleets and the necessary
  infrastructure
• Demand management strategies based upon access
  restrictions to the inner city areas and other
  sensitive zones
• Demand management and revenue raising strategies
  based upon integrated area-wide pricing
  strategies
• Stimulation of collective passenger transport
  and the quality of service offered to passengers

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CIVITAS Measures (2)

• New forms of vehicle use and/or ownership and
  less car intensive lifestyles
• New concepts for the distribution of goods
• Innovative soft measures for managing mobility
  demand
• Integration of transport management systems and
  related information services

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CIVITAS II Family 4 Demonstration Projects in 17
Cities
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Exchange of Experience within the CIVITAS II
Family
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Specific Support Action CIVITAS GUARD

• Support for the CIVITAS demonstration projects
  cities
• Cross-site evaluation and european wide
  dissemination in cooperation with the
  demonstration projects
• Support in the organisation of the CIVITAS Forums
• Providing the Secretariat for the Policy Advisory
  Committee (PAC)
• Development of policy recommendations for a
  long-term multiplier effect of CIVITAS
• Support to EC in monitoring the demonstration
  projects

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Thank you Eric Speaker contact mail_at_mail.org www
.civitas-initiative.org