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Thessaloniki (Greece)
Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece and a major economic, industrial, commercial, and political center, as well as an important transportation hub. In 2021, Thessaloniki adopted its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), with the vision of promoting cultural heritage and entrepreneurship in a vibrant, resilient and functional urban environment for both residents and visitors, where sustainable transport modes can be easily accessed and combined.
The strategy of the city, according to its SUMP, is to promote pedestrian movement through the redistribution of public space, to develop low traffic areas, as well as organize city logistics by using alternative means of transport to upgrade the urban environment and reduce GHG pollutants. Thessaloniki acts as a large-scale ITS testbed for the implementation of cooperative mobility services.
Additionally, Thessaloniki’s planning promotes multimodality and the infrastructure of new modes through the development of hubs and stations for electric cars and bike-sharing. The deployment of a city-wide MaaS scheme, including public transport and shared mobility services, is part of the vision of the city. Additionally, the city is home to a Smart Mobility Living Lab, which aims to develop techniques for collecting, managing, and validating mobility data from multiple sources.
Thessaloniki is the host of the CIVITAS Forum 2026.
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325,182
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19,307 km²
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October 2010
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