| Description of work |
CIVITAS SMILE provides the strategy to combine a set of measures to develop an intelligent, sustainable and intermodal city traffic that makes it possible to live an active life independently of use and ownership of private cars.
The project addresses these issues through promotion of bio fuels, clean vehicles and intelligent travels from door to door in order to provide better urban air quality, increased quality of life and better health, safety and security to all of city’s inhabitants irrespective social status, gender and other issues.
We will work together to demonstrate and evaluate in our cities what is required to ensure the rapid deployment and take-off of clean urban transport systems in the EU.
The objectives of CIVITAS SMILE are: improved urban air quality, create a sustainable, safe and flexible traffic system that improves the quality of life in two leading cities, Malmö (Sweden) and Norwich (UK), and in three follower sites, Tallinn (Estonia), Suceava (Romania) and Potenza (Italy). It will cut the current trend of increased use and ownership of cars, promote sustainable alternatives and stimulate efficient and clean city distribution of goods. CIVITAS SMILE cities typify the urban policy issues facing the many historic medium sized cities in the European Union and in Accession Countries, giving a level of transferability.
CIVITAS SMILE contains totally 27 partners who will implement 50 demonstration measures, which will directly lower the hazardous emissions from city traffic. In the long run it will create a modal shift towards public transport, cycling and car-sharing.
The measures are divided into 8 work packages following the policies of the CIVITAS programme. |
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| Expected Results and Exploitation Plans |
At a strategic level, the overall impact of the CIVITAS SMILE project will be to advance knowledge on implementation, transition and effectiveness issues associated with innovative transport measures. This will include developing a body of knowledge on how bold integrated packages of transport measures can help address key issues in comparable medium sized cities across Europe and
contribute to policy goals.
The CIVITAS SMILE cities have, for a long time, been actively engaged in promoting the European sustainability agenda by participating in European processes and carrying out ambitious programmes and projects to improve the environmental situation in the cities. In this proposal the cities are developing new forms of co-operation to find solutions to a wide range of economic, environmental and societal challenges facing medium-sized cities within EU and in the accession countries.
This proposal takes their collaboration further, by addressing:
• The knowledge transference of scientific, technical, commercial and financial steps necessary for the successful development and marketing of new or improved clean vehicles and sustainable travels from door-to-door;
• The strengthening of the European research area through promoting the mobility and capacity building of accession country researchers, and strengthening the involvement of small and medium-sized enterprises in research dissemination, product development and innovation;
• The involvement of the public in the research evaluation in innovative ways to raise the public’s understanding of sustainability and travel behaviour.
The measures in this proposal are expected to have significant impact in solving the problems of:
• dependency on fossil fuels
• competitiveness of clean vehicles and alternative fuels
• congestion in urban areas
• deteriorating environmental quality in the cities, i.e. air and noise
• security in the city
• social inclusion and equal opportunities
• road safety
• economic efficiency and competitiveness of the cities
• fall in the modal share of the public transports |
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| Contacts |
Project Manager:
Christian Resebo
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Project Evaluation Manager:
Alan Lewis
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Project Dissemination Manager:
Chris Humphrey
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