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SEVILLA 2007 FIFTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE CITIES & TOWNS MUNICIPALITY OF ROME

SEVILLA 2007 FIFTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE CITIES & TOWNS MUNICIPALITY OF ROME ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT CYCLING OFFICE Marco Contadini. The context Cycling in Rome. The problems The strategies Conclusion. RADIAL TRIPS. LAND USE. The city of Rome.

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SEVILLA 2007 FIFTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE CITIES & TOWNS MUNICIPALITY OF ROME

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  1. SEVILLA2007 FIFTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE CITIES & TOWNS MUNICIPALITY OF ROME ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT CYCLING OFFICE Marco Contadini

  2. The context • Cycling in Rome • The problems • The strategies • Conclusion

  3. RADIAL TRIPS LAND USE The city of Rome

  4. Supply and transport demand

  5. Main actions concerning the urban mobility system • Development of subway and tramway network • Development of peripheral interchange nodes • Development of reserved and priority lanes for public transport • Development of AVM system • Parking charging and access control • Development of urban cycling

  6. CYCLING IN ROME

  7. The scheme Metro, railway and tram network Main cycling network Local cycling network LTZ Limited traffic zone Central and semi-central areas – Parking pricing Bike sharing Exchange nodes

  8. The problems • Lacking, though rising, sensibility toward cycling • An overly articulated administrative system • 3 local authorities with competence over urban mobility • (Region – Province – Municipality) • 5 Councilors and related Departments involved with mobility issues • A large municipal territory split in 19 boroughs • (each with own politicians, technicians and police) • Some 10 cycling associations • 7 public companies involved in mobility issues Actors characterized by overloading bureaucracy • Shortage of economic resources

  9. Development of intermodality between bicycle and public transport ENVIRONMENT COUNCILOR 2004 TABLE ON THE INTERMODALITY BETWEEN BICYCLE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT

  10. Further Collaborative Process • A participated process started in December 2006 to • plan and develop local cycling networks: • Department of urban planning (technical offices and political authority) • Department of environment (technical offices and political authority) • Department of mobility (technical offices and political authority) • 19 Local Administrations (technical offices and political authority) • Municipal police • Cyclist associations

  11. Main cycling network Existing lanes 160 km (50 in the green areas) • Lanes under construction 20 km • Lanes in the design phase 70 km • Planned lanes about 150 km

  12. Equipping interchange nodes

  13. BONELLI MAGLIANA PALASPORT FS MAGLIANA FERMI LAURENTINA METRO B MAIN CYCLING NETWORK RAILWAY LOCAL CYCLING NETWORK

  14. THE FIRST PROTOTYPE THE FINAL PROTOTYPE BMB M 321/1U Ingresso e Uscita Bici ZONA BICI Bicycles onboard public transport

  15. Bike sharing • FREE-STANDING SYSTEM • Problems: • Thefts • Complex monitoring • and management • Benefits: • Maximum flexibility • for users FIXED PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF LOCATIONS Problems: Public space for bicycle racks Start-up costs Benefits: Planning and monitoring Easy management

  16. Eco-taxi by rickshaw • THE PROJECT, CURRENTLY AT THE START-UP, PROPOSES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A RICKSHAW-OPERATED EXPERIMENTAL SERVICE FOR INDIVIDUAL MOBILITY IN THE CITY’S HISTORICAL CENTRE MENAGED BY DISADVATAGED PERSONS. • THE PROJECT PARTNERS ARE: • 1) Ministry for justice (Leader) • 2) City of Rome • - Councillorship for environmental policies • - Councillorship for work policies • 3) The Social cooperative Blow-up (Proposing) • THE CORE OF THIS EFFORT WAS THE SYNERGY BETWEEN: • human/social recovery (recovery of disadvataged persons, like certain • categories of prisoners) • environmental preservation (the promotion of environmentally sustainable • means of transportation)

  17. Sensibility toward the environment and cycling is a function of an articulated communication plan

  18. Shortage of economic resourceshypothetic financing schemes • Public funding, EU, national and local • Taxes levied from drivers • Project financing • Revenues form user charging • Sponsors http://spicycles.velo.info/

  19. Conclusion • Several measures are being introduced in Rome for dealing with such problems: • opening participative and consensual processes of decision • making • 2) “pressing” the bureaucratic system for speeding up decisions • connecting public policies (environmental, cultural heritage • preservation, eco-tourism, social development, sport etc.) in • order to realize a significant increase in efficiency and mutual • interest • 4) re-internalising transportation costs by supporting cycling • with funds from revenues on automobiles • involving the private sector by, in example, management of • toll’s income, advertising, public communication etc.. • In conclusion it can be stated that the most important obstacles against the transformation of a large city like Rome in a bicycle city are threefold: • The persisting cultural gap in the • environmental awareness; • 2) the lack of financial resources; • the complexity of managing the urban • system.

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