CiViNET Poland in cooperation with Municipality of Warsaw kindly invites to take part in workshop dealing with carsharing development scheme for Poland. The workshop will be hold in Polish.
Top-ranking representatives of European government, especially from the field of environment, a glamorous gala, and above all the best environment projects in the world made the ENERGY GLOBE Gala Prague 09 an event to remember. ENERGY GLOBE Award is...
CiViTAS CARAVEL organised and hosted the first “Transferability Workshop” within the CiViTAS Initiative. Car pooling and Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) measures implemented within CiViTAS CARAVEL and particularly by the City of Krakow where...
Demand Responsive Transport Services: theoretic, technical and communication approaches - with this slogan CIVITAS CARAVEL invites students and young professionals to the third unit of the CIVITAS CARAVEL Summer University!
The new system of voice information for passengers, especially announcing the next stops, is based on the present position of the tram, either calculated by using a road module (counting meters travelled) or by using a GPS positioning system.As an...
The first months of the test helped to show preliminary the scale of number of illegal entrances to the “B” zone.
On May 27th, 2008 will be the inauguration of the Mobility Forum in Genoa. This Mobility Forum is the mobility information office of the city centre and will be called MOBI’ - LABORATORY OF THE SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY. It will be set up by the...
Soft Measures in Transport Planning - with this slogan CIVITAS CARAVEL invites students and young professionals to the second unit of the CIVITAS CARAVEL Summer University!
The Contest is intended for everyone owning an AMT bus subscription and/or an Ikea family card and/or a Car sharing subscription.It is possible to take part in the Contest with the whole own family and all the collected points will be gathered in...
The Municipality of Genoa, together with the Province of Genoa, the Handicap Consult, ANGLAT and with the contribution of the CiViTAS CARAVEL project, introduced to the Genova Car Sharing service a special car, equipped for the driving of...
The test operation of two signalized pedestrian crossings, which were newly built over the urban highway B 14 in Stuttgart, started in July 2006. The main aim was the harmonization of the traffic flow and the reduction of the traffic related...
With a new car-pooling campaign, Stuttgart’s car-pooling service “Pendlernetz Stuttgart” is searching for new users. Additional all users are asked to report about their experiences with “Pendlernetz Stuttgart”.
Stuttgart’s citizens keep particulate matter as a high environmental- and health risk and support even restrictive measures to improve the situation. Two-third of the citizens know about the “Clean Air Programme for Stuttgart”. This is the result of...
Mobility Point is the multi channel platform for the diffusion of multimodal services for the citizens of Genoa.Mobility Point provides alarms on the urban and motorways traffic state in real time, available parking places, more than 50 web cams,...
While awaiting the final measures (e.g. the contactless card), some of the important measures of CiViTAS CARAVEL have now been concluded, such as the installation of 31 information display panels that will provide real-time information, on waiting...
Thanks to the CiViTAS CARAVEL project and the clear idea of renovating the fleet, the old buses from Burgos will be given a new lease on life. Bureaucracy has held up the administration for some months, since ownership of the municipal assets has to...
The university location was always a problematic issue. In other European cities they have decided not to place these systems at a university due to the peak in demand for bicycles from that point when students enter and leave the premises.
Once again, thousands of citizens took advantage of the traffic-calming measures during the European Mobility Week 2007, including the experimental 30km/h-zones, which are included in a CiViTAS CARAVEL study. Other events organised were the ring-...
The first prize went to Ricardo Palomo for a magnificent idea with the slogan “Vini, Vidi, Bici” which now can be seen in one of the main Civic Centres of the City.
Following the previous campaign's ideas competition, including the presentation of the prizes, the third postcard campaign has now been launched.
Krakow University of Technology (PK), holder of the measure 9.2 “Carpooling system in Krakow” in CIVITAS CARAVEL has made a comprehensive national press, television and radio campaign to raise awareness of the Polish citizens about the carpooling...
The panel was multidisciplinary (environmental technicians, mobility experts, marketing and publicity personnel) and had to decide on the four best ideas which will continue in 2007 the very successful postcard campaign from 2006. The postcards will...
The information is in Spanish and is focussed on the national (and the latin-american) level. It is a very important tool in order to find information for those people who want to learn about the measures implemented in the framework of CIVITAS...
Vito Contursi participated also in a round table with José Holguín, Associated Professor of Renssealer Polytechnic Institute from NY (USA), Diego Fernández Malvido, Youth Councillor of the City of Burgos and Luigi del´Ollio, Professor of the...
“BiCiBUR” pretends to promote sustainable mobility through the free bicycle renting system. In order to facilitate and to promote the use of bicycles the Local Council has developed the initiative. Bicycles are located in four different points of...
Burgos has uploaded some useful information on the CIVITAS-CARAVEL website in Spanish and English. It is possible to see also the corporate design of the FORUM in movement, following the title of the Forum: Cities in motion. Especially for Spanish...
This system is part of measure 6.2 of the CiViTAS CARAVEL project in the City of Burgos. The system is connected with the Traffic Management Centre (measure 12.4) to ensure the necessary 24 hours per day availability. Many meetings have been...
The new Traffic Management Centre also provides, based on sensors, good information on the traffic flow in different parts of the city and soon it will incorporate also the new parking control camera implemented in the new vehicle which will enforce...
Many other cities have been in contact with the City of Burgos interested in the bike loan system in order to copy the system and to try to implement it also. The civil servants from the City Council of Burgos and the technicians from the Castille...
Trying to organise new events and new activities for the mobility week, Burgos moved mobility week to 25-29th September 2006 (same time as CiViTAS FORUM) and presented two clowns to explain good and bad habits about sustainable mobility and...
The first prize was presented by the Minister of Industry, Joan Clos, to the Councillor for the Environment, Cristina Ayala (the political representative of CiViTAS CARAVEL in the City of Burgos and a member of the PAC) during the Conference on...
In January and February 2007, after a very detailled preparation, the CiViTAS CARAVEL children's workshops were held in selected colleges, among different groups and age groups. One of the workshops explained to the children the problems caused by...
The average age of buses in the city has gone from eleven years at the start of the CiViTAS Caravel project to its current average age of a little over two years. The procurement, outside of the project, of 27 new buses able to run on 100% biodiesel...
One of the key monuments in the City of Burgos, the Arco de Santa María, will finally have the access it deserves, along a pedestrianized street over a bridge that provides an appropriate view. Other elements have been put in place in the centre of...
Professor Toshiyuki Yamamoto travelled from the University of Nagoya to Burgos after a detailed study of numerous European cities to see which offered the best solutions for implementation in Japan.
The presentation has been held within the Mobility Workshop E-Government & Mobility held in Sala Ascari in the morning of Thursday, November 14th, 2007.The CiViTAS CARAVEL partners AMI (Azienda Mobilità e Infrastrutture S.p.A.) and IIC (Istituto...
In Krakow, from September 16th to 22nd, 2007 the European Mobility Week was organized, including a Car Free Day, in order to promote sustainable transport modes and to establish a new mobility culture.The Krakow CiViTAS CARAVEL team was widely...
Together with the CiViTAS CARAVEL INFOMOBILITY BUS, a guide has been developed and distributed at all the Ligurian motorways' service stations, providing information on the easiest and most sustainable way to reach the fair.These initiatives have...
The Integrated Traffic Management Centre (ITMC) in Stuttgart with its event-oriented traffic management, which was implemented within the CiViTAS CARAVEL project, is operating very successful since May 2006.
With the new feature, event-oriented carpooling, the organisation of car-pools to big events in Stuttgart gets much easier. This new service is especially addressed to the visitors of home matches of VfB Stuttgart, Stuttgarts soccer team playing in...
After all testing activities, cost analysis and training for the first group of drivers and the first official presentation, which took place on 23rd of November 2006, the CNG buses are now in operation on the streets of Krakow.The adventages of...
The CIVITAS CARAVEL InfoMobility Bus was inaugurated on Monday, 20th of November, with an official ribbon cutting ceremony undertaken by the Mobility and Transports Councillor of the Municipality of Genoa, Arcangelo Merella, the President of AMT,...
The City Council of Burgos organised games for children and pensioners. The party finished at dusk with a big session of fireworks.Citizens and neighbourhoods have generally accepted the new area and are happy with the new scheme in the city centre...
Using Genoa Car sharing means a lot of benefits:You can choose the most suitable car each time you need it.You have a car but you don’t have to pay its fixed costs.You can park everywhere in the limited traffic zones (ZTL).You don’t have to think...
From February 13th, 2006 in Genoa, it is possible to book the conversion of your car, if matriculated from 1993 to 2000, to GPL or to methane, obtaining an incentive that amounts to 350,00 Euro. In order to obtain the above mentioned incentive, you...
The survey that has been carried out was directed to people going for working and studying near or in the hospital. 1.000 interviews were performed, 750 to people going to the hospital and 250 to students and people near the university area. The...
The IVR system is already functioning for the off-line reservation requests, that is the reservations that are not directly elaborated, but that are for example for the following week, while the IVR system for the reservation for the current day...
The big change in the operative way of the Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) service for disabled persons has been managed through a deep cooperation between Municipality of Genoa, AMI and ATI (3 operators specialized in transport for disabled...
The elaboration of the operational plan for the expansion and the improvement of the car sharing service in Genoa is in its completion phase.In the meanwhile, the design of the foreseen expansion of the car sharing service to the CIVITAS areas of...
Van sharing is Genoa car sharing service at convenient prices for all the economic operators (traders and craftsmen), who work in the historical centre area liable to access restriction for goods distribution.It is a flexible service: the access...
Now Genoa Underground is made of eight stations and two other stations (Corvetto Square and Brignole railway station) are under construction.For further information, please visit the official website of Genoa Underground
Visit it on www.caravel.genova.itIt is also available the first Mobility Forum on-line! (in Italian)
CIVITAS Education calls in mind the concept of “Civic education”. In the posters there are three pictures representing: 1. a young boy pushing a person on a wheeled chair on a disabled equipped bus. 2. a car sharing vehicle stopping in order to let...
The new parking places are located in the city centre: in Paolo da Novi Square and Marconi Avenue (Casaregis street corner).It is also possible to directly reserve your car from Genova Car Sharing service on-line, from the Car Sharing website.For...
The four CIVITAS CARAVELpolitical representatives agreed that their cities require strong and innovative policies in order to meet the challenge of sustainable development.
In June 2006, a big CIVITAS CARAVEL logo has been bill posted on one of Kraków trams, to increase the awareness of the citizens of Kraków on the different measures implemented by CIVITAS CARAVEL. But not only the tram is running under the flag of...
On Friday, July 7th, 2006 the CiViTAS-CARAVEL measure „New Leisure Related Mobility Services” was officially opened by MPK, the local public transport operator, in Krakow. 15 new bike carry facilities were installed on buses. This measure is...
After the publication of the Mid-Term Review of the White Paper on Transport in June 2006 and the announcement of a Green Paper on Urban Transport, this Forum was a perfect occasion to start a very productive exchange of views between all...
