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City of Graz Gentle Mobility & Space for People. Graz : . • European Sustainable City Award 1996 • UNESCO World Heritage 1999 and 2010 • Cultural Capital City of Europe 2003 Hosting the CIVITAS Forum 2003 • Osmose Award – Biodiesel bus fleet / Toulouse 2006
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City of Graz Gentle Mobility & Space for People
Graz: • • European Sustainable City Award 1996 • • UNESCO World Heritage 1999 and 2010 • • Cultural Capital City of Europe 2003 • Hosting the CIVITAS Forum 2003 • • Osmose Award – Biodiesel bus fleet / Toulouse 2006 • •CIVITAS City of the Year 2008 • Award Parking Measures 2010 • City of Design 2011
Graz – some facts 270.000 inhabitants 183.000 employees 10.692 companies 136.000 dailycommuters 4 universities with 40.000 students surfaceof 127 km²
historic“ traffic specials Gentle Mobility – an ideabecomes a philosophy Platz für Menschen / Space forpeople – implementationandextensionofpedestrianareas in thehistoriccitycentre 30/50 speedlimit – 30 km/h speedlimitfor all residentialareas in Graz – all overthecity
Start 1994 in the area around Graz since March 1997 in the whole Region of Styria
Styrian Traffic Association / Geography / services 16.000 km2 association area 1,2 million inhabitants 535 municipalities till 2012 63 transport companies 500 lines 7.500 stops 13.500 connections/working day
Bus Bahn Bim information With www.busbahnbim.at you enter at home and plan your route ! Put in your start- and final destination address / the Door – to door information finds : the right stops and the right timetable. Additionaly describes a plan The exact way including walking to your final address – in the whole Province of Styria – the area of the Styrian Traffic Association www.busbahnbim.at The „Door-to-door“ Information
Public transport 98,2 mio. passengers ( tram 52,3 mio ) 3,2 mio. km tram- and 8,2 mio. km bus-mileage 70 trams und 134 buses 6 tramlines und 37 buslines linelength of tramnetwork 49 kmlinelength of busnetwork 343 km
• Better Public Transport • Low floor buses and trams • Passenger Information System • PT priority • Bus tangentiallines • Ecological buses / Biodiesel • Better interchange facilities Important „Gentle Mobility“ Projects
CIVITAS IT Measures Graz • Passenger Information System • Bus / Tram Priority • Integrated Traffic Management • BUS – BAHN – BIM online Info • Handy Ticket • Handy Parking • Handy Traffic Information
Study visit in Graz / Graz Transport Company Transport Controll Centre
First Austrian Mobility Centre – Mobil Zentral Since 1997 - new dimension with CIVITAS trendsetter 2004
URBAN I: Wien / URBAN II: Wien / UPP elmas: Gran Canaria Vila do Conde Leon Granada Bilbao Bordeaux Besancon Turin Neapel Mailand BrindisiAlexandropolis West-Athen Brüssel Dublin Leicester Huddersfield (Kirklees) Randers Utrecht Bremerhaven Friedrichshain (Berlin) Dortmund Leipzig / CIVITAS trendsetter: Stockholm Lille Prag Pecs / Guidemaps: Madrid Ille-de-France Cologne Brighton Surrey Essex Bochum Saarbrücken Erfurt Prag Brno LundbyGävle Maribor Panorama / Tecnoman: Wien Thessaloniki KalkidikiPieria Chemnitz-Zickau Pilzen Ostrava Wroklow Belgrad / URB-AL Cultura: Buenos Aires Gent CriciúmaErechim Vitoria Santiago-La Pintana Cuenca Bilbao Valladolid / PIMMS: Frankfurt SerresBromley Treviso Almada Stockholm TerrassaURBACT chorus:AnderlechtBastiaVolosCosenza Foggia Napoli Siracusa Belfast Krakau Vila do Conde GironaOurense Toledo / URBACT Partners4action: Brüssel Kopenhagen Gera Chemnitz Liverpool Nottingham Lille Nicosia Riga Amsterdam Porto Budapest / URBACT citiz@move: Charleroi Sambreville La Louviere Brüssel AarhusAalborg Gera London Valencia Athen CosenzaMisterbianco Turin SiracusaDerry Sevilla Toledo Pecs / HistUrban: Kaufbeuren Regensburg Wismar FaenzaTeramo Verona Salzburg Sanok Sopot Arad Oradea Pilzen / ASTUTE: London Dublin Siracusa Granada Budapest / SUGRE: Sofia Bremen Berlin Heidelberg Berkshire Lyon Thessaloniki Reykjavik Rom Turin Rotterdam Warszawa AlmadaOeiras Bukarest Stockholm Bratislava Ljubljana Celje Madrid Budapest / Transpower: Görlitz Magnesia HalandriL'Aquila Skopje Groningen Sibiu Timisioara Niš CIVITAS Catalist: Brüssel Berlin Bremen Köln Bristol Nantes Toulouse Genua Rom Kaunas Rotterdam Krakau Bukarest Göteborg Stockholm Szentendre / URBACT II CityRegion.Net: München Châlons-en-Champagne Trikala Arezzo Częstochowa Kielce Oradea Zürich / URBACT II HerO: Regensburg Liverpool Poitiers Neapel Vilnius Valletta Lublin Sighisoara Valencia / Act4PPP: Berlin Erfurt Rostock Schwerin Frankfurt Venedig Asti Sopot PoznaňBedzin Bratislava Ljubljana Ostrava / URBAN plus: Graz und 16 Umlandgemeinden / City Network Graz Maribor: Maribor RM Graz-GU / GoPedelec: Naples Utrecht Stuttgart Prag /City Regions: Leipzig RM Graz-GU Breslau Prag Turin Region Sachsen Böhmen Doloslaskie / RURBANCE:Milano Lombarda Region Grenoble Rhone Alpes Zurich Veneto Piemont Munich Allgäu Turin Ljubljana
PT Priority • Objective: Delay zero • Passage oftramsandbusseswithoutstop on trafficlights • Basis: Traffic management system • Implementation • Priorisationsuccessful on 83trafficlightintersections • goalisreachableby 70- 85 % of PT vehicles Geidorfplatz
Further „Gentle Mobility“ Projects: Blue Zone Parking / Green Zone Parking 7.500 cars Since 1997 chargeable short term parking zones Private Controlling since 1991/ 2008 Since April 2004 „Eco-Parking“ Extension of blue parking zones from 8.500 to 14.300
Eco – Parking / no hightec system but it works Petrol vehicles: Euro IV Norm <140g CO2 / km Diesel vehicles: Euro IV Norm <130gCO2/km +Particulate filter Gas vehicles: Euro IV Norm <140gCO2 / km
Better public transport - Extension of 3 tramlines Stand: April 2004
ProvinceofStyria – Investment in Commuter Train Service Start 2007
Investment in PT Projects – ÖBB / ProvinceofStyria / Graz Nahverkehrsdrehscheibe Hauptbahnhof
Modal Split – mode choice PT 19,9 / car-driver 35,7 / 9,5 / bike 16,1 / walking 18,8(mobility survey2008)
Platz für Menschen Thank you for your attention gerhard.ablasser@stadt.graz.at
Gerhard AblasserCity of Graz The Executive Office for Urban Planning, Developmentand Construction, European Programmes and International Cooperation Unit Europaplatz 20 / A 8020 Graz / AustriaT ++43 316 872 3580Mail : gerhard.ablasser@stadt.graz.at