Caravel CiViTAS II Project Tomasz Zwolinski , UMK 18.04.07 Krakow University of Technology

1. Caravel CiViTAS II Project Tomasz Zwolinski, UMK 18.04.07 Krakow University of Technology

2. CARAVEL- Travelling towards a new mobility - • “The participating cities intend to establish a new culture for clean mobility in European cities in support of sustainable development, citizens well being and safe access for all”. • CARAVEL: Part of the CIVITAS initiative approved by the the European Commission • Four participating cities Burgos, Genoa (leading city), Krakow, Stuttgart • Timeframe 01.02.2005 – 31.01.2009 • Total cost 29,8 million €, 13,19 million € co-funding from the CIVITAS II Programme 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

3. Burgos • Inhabitants: ca. 170.000 • Well-known worldwide because of ist cultural,monumental and artistic heritage • Privileged geographical position being locatedhalf way between Madrid and the French border • Strategic value for varied and dynamic industries • Modal Split: on foot (53%), private car (36%), public transport (11%) • 7.500 parking spaces, bus network with 28 lines and total load of 40.000 passengers daily • Measures developed within the CIVITAS project will be focused on the historical city area, the city along the river and residental neighbourhoods, peri-urban areas, industrial and university areas and new neighbourhoods • CARAVEL Budget: 6.077.853 €, co-funding 2.405.482 € (40%) 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

4. Genoa • Called „la Superba“ (the Proud) • Inhabitants: ca. 630.000 • Features one of the most commercial ports in the Mediterranean Sea • European Capital of Culture in 2004 • Very difficult street layout due to the lack of space and the absence of alternative routes • Densely populated area in the central part of the city, characterised buy a big Historical Centre with a thick net of narrow streets • Measures developed within the CIVITAS project will be focused mainly in the central and eastern part of the city • CARAVEL Budget: 11.414.355 €, co-funding 4.717.041 (41%) 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

5. Krakow • Inhabitants: ca. 760.000 • European Capital of Culture in 2000, enlistedto the World Natural and Cultural Heritage • About 140.000 students at „Jagiellonian University“, the oldest University in Central and Eastern Europe • 1100 km of road network, ca. 700.000 daily trips by Public Transport • Modal Split: Public Transport (43%), on foot (29%), private car (27%), bicycle (1%) • 3-zone traffic restriction scheme was introduced in the city centre in 1988 • Measures developed within the CIVITAS project will be focused on the city area within the second ring road and major transport corridors • CARAVEL Budget: 3.903.949 €, co-funding 1.771.400 (45%) 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

6. Stuttgart • Inhabitants: ca. 592.000 • Centre of the conurbation „Stuttgart Region“ („Greater Stuttgart“) with 2,6 million inhabitants and 1,3 million persons employed • Well-known for the automotive and mechanicalengineering companies • Radially designed trunk roads, only partially existing supplementing ring connections due to topography and landscape protection • Public Transport with 1 million passengers/day • Modal Split: private car (43%), on foot (27%), public transport (24%), bicycle (6%) • Measures developed within the CIVITAS project will be carried out in the city centre of Stuttgart, the event area of Cannstatter Wasen and the Stuttgart Region • CARAVEL Budget: 4.287.350 €, co-funding 1.668.393 (39%) 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

7. Technical Workpackages(representing the eight policy fields of the CIVITAS Programme) • Clean and energy-efficient vehicles • Access management • Integrated pricing strategies • Stimulation of collective transport modes • New forms of vehicle use and ownership • New concepts for the distribution of goods • Innovative soft measures • Telematics 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

8. Clean and energy-efficient vehicles • Objectives • To substantially increase the use of clean vehicles and alternative fuels in the municipal fleets • To stimulate the demand for clean vehicles among mobility service operators and private car owners • To increase the share of renewable energy consumption in the cities • Measures • Transition strategies towards clean vehicle fleets in all transport areas. Implementation in Genoa, Burgos and Krakow 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

9. Access management • Objectives • To create/enlarge access-controlled and “clean zone” areas • To find solutions to comply with European air quality legislation • To achieve social consensus for integrative policy on use of scarce public space • To enforce access control in inner-city areas • Measures: • Expansion of access controlled area and enforcement of access restrictions in Krakow • Establish a “clean zone” with access control and develop parking strategy and management in Burgos • Development of policy options for access restriction in Stuttgart 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

10. Integrated pricing strategies • Objectives • To significantly reduce the number of cars in protected areas through integrated pricing strategies • To improve economic and social vitality and maintain necessary accessibility of protected areas by clean modes/vehicles • To achieve wide social consensus for the road user charging policy • Measures • Set up an integrated access control and enforcement strategy in Genoa and enlarge and implement a full-scale road pricing scheme in central Genoa 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

11. Stimulation of collective transport modes (1) • Objectives • To increase the quality, accessibility and attractiveness of Public Transport (PT) • To provide efficient flexible (demand responsive) PT services and integrate them also institutionally • To offer innovative services “bridging the gap” between conventional large volume PT and new mobility demands • To provide innovative services for new user groups (i.g. tourists) • To improve the intermodality in PT • To improve PT security through comprehensive strategies 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

12. Stimulation of collective transport modes (2) • Measures • Establish clean high mobility corridors in Genoa and Krakow and high mobility services in Burgos • Agency for flexible transport services in Genoa • Collective mobility services for target users and new mobility services for visitors in Burgos • Demand-responsive transport services and integrated ticketing and tariffs in Krakow • New leisure related mobility services in Genoa and Krakow • Security action plan for public transport in Krakow and suburban railway in Greater Stuttgart 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

13. New forms of vehicle use and ownership • Objectives • To establish collective vehicle use concepts in highly individualised cultures • To promote a new “bicycle culture” • To extend the Public Transport offer by new shared modes • To integrate new PT modes into the joint flexible service agency (with demand-responsive services etc.) • Measures • Operate new car-pooling concepts for various target groups in Burgos, Krakow and Stuttgart • Set up and extend car sharing services in Genoa • Study options for car sharing in Krakow • City bike scheme in Burgos and Krakow 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

14. New concepts for the distribution of goods • Objectives • To develop coherent access control system for goods vehicles to protected zones • To establish efficient goods distribution in protected zones (100% clean vehicles) • To improve quality of goods distribution • To achieve wide social consensus for goods vehicle access restrictions • Measures • Set up new goods distribution schemes in Krakow an Burgos • Extend the existing goods distribution system in Genoa 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

15. Innovative soft measures (1) • Objectives • To establish a new “mobility culture” in all cities based on a civic consensus building and consultation process • To create new psychological and economic incentives for sustainable mobility use • To ultimately develop a holistic concept for reducing the ecological footprint of mobility • To ensure accessibility of essential urban infrastructures through integrated mobility planning and mobility management • To emphasize crash prevention and to establish road safety monitoring institutions • To enable qualified decision-taking in transport planning • Conception and implementation of public awareness campaigns to change behaviour of road users and foster ecologically compatible transport modes 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

16. Innovative soft measures (2) • Measures • Sustainable mobility marketing in all cities, additionally development of an “€CO Points” scheme for individuals in Genoa • Set up a multi-stakeholder Mobility Forum in Genoa, Burgos and Krakow • Integrated mobility plans for the San Martino Hospital in Genoa and the Technical University of Krakow • Integrated mobility strategy for trade fairs in Genoa • Access for mobility impaired people, safe access for pedestrians and increasing bicycle use in Burgos • Monitoring centres for road safety and crash prevention in Genoa and Krakow, safety and crash prevention plan in Burgos • Decision support tool for environmental impact assessment of traffic planning measures in Genoa 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

17. Telematics • Objectives • To provide intermodal traveller information services based on Intelligent Transport Systems • To use ITS for PT quality improvements (bus lane enforcement and bus priority) and traffic control • To implement new services based on EGNOS/GALILEO • To manage mobility requirements of big events in a sustainable way • Measures • Infomobility platforms in Genoa and Krakow • Infomobility services and traffic visualisation system in Burgos • Bus lane control system in Genoa • Public transport priority system in Krakow • Event-oriented traffic management in Stuttgart 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

18. Project coordinationand management Evaluation Dissemination Integration and technical management Horizontal activities All in close cooperation with CIVITAS, GUARD 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

19. Project coordination and management • Objectives • To manage the integrated Project effectively • To ensure quality control • To ensure political direction to the project • Tasks • Financial and contract management • Management reporting and quality control • Risk management • Political and scientific guidance 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

20. Integration and technical management • Objectives • To coordinate site and workpackage activities • To coordinate liaison with GUARD and other CIVITAS projects • To facilitate a high-quality technical cooperation among partners • To supervise technical progress including gender issues • To achieve a fully integrated mobility policy approach • Tasks • Site coordination and technical integration • Technical coordination and progress reporting 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

21. Evaluation • Objectives: • To agree a uniform procedure of evaluation among the cities • To verify values of indicators for performance measures • To evaluate the impacts of the integrated package of measures and the individual measures of CARAVEL at city level based on common indicators, methods and tools • To cooperate actively on CIVITAS level evaluation activities (Guard and other CIVITAS Projects) • To identify opportunities for transfer of result • Tasks • Site evaluation • Reporting results • Analysing transferability 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

22. Dissemination, training awareness and exploitation • Objectives: • To widely disseminate CARAVEL results • To establish an intense process of experience exchange on the national, project, and programme level • To cooperate actively on CIVITAS level dissemination activities (GUARD and other CIVITAS cities) • To coordinate European-level training activities among other project cities • To ensure that all partners can capitalise on their investments, exploiting transfer potentials • Tasks • Dissemination media and events (e.g. brochure, website, newsletter) • Training and experience exchange • Summer University • Exploitation 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

23. M6.1 Integrated access control strategy in Krakow • More restricted areas and streets for individual cars means simply better conditions for public transport, pedestrians and cyclers, which are still most popular means of transport in Krakow (with modal split ca.: 61% for PT and 39% for individual cars). • Objectives • To enlarge access-controlled areas • To achieve social consensus for integrative policy on use of scarce public space • To improve conditions of public transport in the city centre • To make city centre more attractive for non-motorised transport users • To better promote in mass media the policy about car mobility restrictions 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

24. M6.1 Integrated access control strategy in Krakow • Innovations • Integrated access control scheme in Krakow • Concept of dividing city centre into "sectors" • New parking management scheme including elimination of on-street parking places • "Soft" elimination of transit moves across city centre • Mass media promotion of mobility restrictions 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

25. M6.1 Integrated access control strategy in Krakow 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

26. M6.4 Enforcement of access restrictions in Krakow • Objectives • Improving the system of access control into the B-zone in the city centre • Implementation and test of an electronic identification system • Decreasing the amount of cars getting into restricted area without permission • Elimination of traffic passing the old centre city • Improvement of the environmental conditions in city 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski

27. Thank you Tomasz Zwolinski zwolinto@um.krakow.pl www.civitas-initiative.org www.caravel-krakow.pl 18.04.07lKrakowlTomasz Zwolinski