CIVITAS: Testing Integrated Strategies for Clean Urban Transport

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• CIVITAS Testing Integrated Strategies for Clean
  Urban Transport
• Jakarta, 24 November 2005
• Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia Learning
  from Europe?
• María ALFAYATE, European Commission,
• DG Energy and Transport

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Contents

• The CIVITAS Philosophy
• The CIVITAS Forum and the policy dimension
• First achievements and looking to the future
• Some first conclusions after 4 years of work
• The PARAMOUNT project

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• The CIVITAS Philosophy

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What is the CIVITAS Initiative about?

• CIVITAS helps to implement and test real change
  integrated packages of technology and policy
  measures in the field of energy and transport
• 8 categories of measures
• Building up critical mass and markets
• CIVITAS is coordinated by cities
• In the heart of the local partnerships
• Political commitment and involvement
• Policy and planning frameworks
• Laboratories learning and evaluating

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CIVITAS A comprehensive approach
Large scale demonstration projects with leading
follower cities
Demo II
Demo III
Demo IV
Demo I
Independent cross-site evaluation External
Monitoring European wide awareness
dissemination Development of policy
recommendations
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The CIVITAS Community and its actors
Adding efforts and financial resources Building
up on plans that are in the pipeline
Member States
European Cities
Local Stakeholders
European Commission
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CIVITAS Cities
Göteborg Stockholm Malmö
Bristol Winchester Norwich Preston
Kaunas
Aalborg Odense
Tallinn
Rotterdam
Cork
Berlin Bremen Stuttgart
Gdynia Krakow
Lille Nantes Toulouse La Rochelle
Prague
Bucharest Suceava Ploiesti
Graz
Ljubljana
Pecs Debrecen
Rome Genoa Venice Potenza
Barcelona Burgos
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CIVITAS Budget

• Supported by the 5th 6th RTD Framework
  Programme
• 35 EU funding
• Total EU contribution to CIVITAS I CIVITAS II
• 100 Millions Take-Up Measure 4M

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CIVITAS measures (1)

• Energy-efficient cost effective clean vehicle
  fleets for public and/or private transport using
  alternative fuels (bio-fuels, natural gas, hybrid
  vehicles) and innovative fuelling infrastructure
  (mandatory)
• Schemes for access control, limiting access to
  clean vehicles only, walking cycling, parking
  management
• Integrated pricing strategies, including
  congestion charging and area-specific pricing
  schemes
• Stimulating collective passenger transport and
  quality, including safety, security and
  accessibility aspects

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CIVITAS measures (2)

• Encouraging new forms of vehicle use/ownership,
  less car-dependant lifestyles
• New concepts for the distribution of goods,
  including freight logistics services and clean
  vehicle fleets
• Innovative soft measures for managing mobility
  demand,including walking and cycling, road safety
  aspects
• Integration of transport management systems,
  information systems and passenger services

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CIVITAS I measures by policy field

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• The CIVITAS Forum and the Policy Dimension

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The CIVITAS Forum

• A space of exchange of ideas experiences
  between CIVITAS cities and other cities
• A tool to develop the CIVITAS philosophy
• An open door to the outside world (e.g. US
  Clean Cities Programme)

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The CIVITAS Policy Advisory Committee

• Political steering group of the CIVITAS Forum
  Group of highly motivated politicians from
  CIVITAS Forum cities
• Identify policy priorities, stressing relevance
  of CIVITAS goals
• Provide input to Forum (e.g. identification
  policy issues, themes, speakers)
• Represent on ad-hoc and informal basis, the
  CIVITAS family at high-level EU events BUT has
  no formal power of representation

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• First achievements and looking to the future

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Some achievements of CIVITAS

• Bristol Establishment of a freight integrator
  among retailers in city centre led to a 66
  decreased of their initial traffic
• Rome Introduction of restricted traffic zone in
  city centre produced 20 decrease of
  traffic in this area
• Cork Introduction of Park Ride systems in
  Ireland
• Berlin Each Euro invested by the Senate of
  Berlin has induced an additional 3 Euro
  investment by other organisations /
  companies outside the CIVITAS project
  budget, though on activities aligned with the
  CIVITAS local objectives

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Some achievements of CIVITAS (II)

• Introduced 2400 clean vehicles, more to come
• Graz 100 biodiesel fleet
• Stockholm worlds largest clean municipal fleet
• Toulouse Europes first CNG at home project
• Lille buses, biggest biogas plant in Europe
• CIVITAS is decisive for new Member States
• Pécs World Heritage Zone car free
• Biodiesel buses in Ljubljana, first large scale
  
• alternative fuel production in Slovenia

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Interactions among Urban Transport Dissemination
Activities
CIVITAS I Demo Projects
CIVITAS II Demo Projects
GUARD
METEOR
CIVITAS Dissemination Best practice Transfer
Action
General Dissemination Training activities on
Clean Urban Transport (e.g. ELTIS, PARAMOUNT)
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• Some conclusions after almost 4 years of work

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Experiences of 4 years CIVITAS

• Ambitious actions need strong political support
  and citizens acceptance
• CIVITAS commitment helps politicians
• Innovative measures difficult to implement
  mental, legal, organisational barriers
• Development of public-private partnerships
• Infrastructure doesnt solve everything!
• CIVITAS Forum - learning network -gt double
  benefit internal (experiences, arguments in
  debate), external visibility

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1. Cities are key stakeholders

• Eg. Clean vehicles
• Rome forced the European market of high
  performance electric buses through a tough
  tendering process
• Barcelona has signed agreement to use CNG as a
  regular fuel of the public transport buses,
  achieving a fleet of 160 buses, Lille, Nantes,
  Rome etc

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Cities are key stakeholders (II)
Eg. Fare integration and smooth shift of
mode Integration of services seldom happens
spontaneously Cities take the lead and unite
stakeholders offering car-sharing, bike ride,
fare information integration, etc. Cities
Lille, Barcelona, Bucharest, Graz, Bristol,
Bremen, Roma, Cork, Winchester and others
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Cities are key stakeholders (III)
Before
Supplier
Customer
Eg Goods distribution Uniting stakeholders
showed both environmental gains and a
profit Cities Stockholm, Göteborg, Graz,
Bristol, Bremen, Barcelona and others
Customer
Supplier
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2. Make citizens happy
When cities dare to put environment safety in
the forefront, citizens are happy Restrictions
for vehicles shop owners others normally
negative in first instance less parking,
strolling zones, congestion charging,
environmental zones, 30 km/h zones more
friendly cities, less accidents and increased
profit for shop owners Cities Graz, Pécs,
Rome, Bristol, Winchester, Cork, Göteborg,
Gdynia, Barcelona, Stockholm and others
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3. Citizen participation improves services
and their impact
Positive reactions and media attention for
successful campaigns and a competition aimed at
Young People, involving schools and youth
clubs Cities Berlin, Nantes, Bristol,
Winchester, and others
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4. Cooperation is fruitful

• Eg. International cooperation
• Pécs copied and improve idea of onion shell city
  with strolling zones in the middle, restrictive
  zone, 30 km/h zone and normal traffic
• Spin-offs
• Ethanol vehicles. Stockholm knows the vehicles,
  Rotterdam shipping harbour for ethanol.
• Car-sharing from Bremen to Nantes, etc

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5. Also small measures can be very efficient

• Eg. intelligent traffic lights
• 2 lights in Prague increased the speed of buses
  with 5
• 14 lights in Stockholm increased speed of buses
  with 15-20 all other vehicles with 10

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6. Be realistic

• CIVITAS support only small part of local
  budget...
• ..but even homeopathic doses can lead to strong
  impacts (if adequate to disease)

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Be realistic (II)

• BUT remember the mobility culture does
  matter !!!!
• How much is spend to promote the car ?
• Rarely seen in TV and cinema TV heroes using PT
  or bike...

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PARAMOUNT the global Dialogue

• A dialogue on policy / technology instruments
  measures and strategies to achieve a sustainable
  urban transport
• - Facilitate the transfer of know-how and good
  practices
• - Disseminate and promote European knowledge
• - Contribute to enhancing capacities among
  decision
• makers and practitioners
• Working with regions outside EU Balkans, Russia
  and neighbouring countries, Turkey, China, rest
  of Asia, Latin America
• Building on existing networks partnerships

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Thank you! Maria Alfayate European Commission DG
Energy Transport maria.alfayate_at_cec.eu.int www.
civitas-initiative.org ELTIS European Local
Transport Information Service www.eltis.org