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| CIVITAS - SUCCESS |
| The innovative cities of La Rochelle (Fr), Preston (UK) and Ploiesti (Ro) are developing a project entitled SUCCESS (Smaller Urban Communities in Civitas for Environmentally Sustainable Solutions), with the ambitious will to ensure a living environment for the 21st Century, for their inhabitants, as a response to the European Initiative Civitas II. |
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| Description of work |
La Rochelle, Preston and Ploiesti represent well the medium-sized cities in Europe, which face specific transport issues: small surface and volume area, which implies greater mixing and interconnection of activities; a lack of funding, which can be a barrier to the implementation of sophisticated technologies; a need to adopt political solutions quickly, unfamiliarity with the complexity of European projects, seasonality of transport uses...
The SUCCESS cities decided to use the latest technologies of clean vehicles allied with other measures to create places where citizens can enjoy a high quality environment and travel easily and safely, to build local partnerships to tackle sustainable mobility issues, to develop efficient management systems, and to adopt a new approach to urban transport.
SUCCESS will:
- Demonstrate that vehicles using clean and alternative fuels can be an efficient choice for urban transport: 12 hybrid buses, using biofuel and electricity will be implemented in the 3 cities; a diester fuelling station will be set up in La Rochelle; a process for recycling cooking oils for fuelling vehicles will be trialled in La Rochelle in cooperation with Ploiesti’s university);
- Demonstrate that, with an ambitious package of mobility and traffic management measures, significant results can be seen regarding sustainable transport and energy policy: around 20 km˛ of car-free and pedestrian zones will be realised in the city centres; new concepts and policies for the local distribution of goods will be tested, involving new urban logistics organisation and management; telematics systems will be implemented to provide real time information for travellers (using advanced integrated databases or via GPS system) and allowing integrated pricing strategies for the local ticketing systems;
- Demonstrate that accession countries, soon to be new member states, can learn from our previous mistakes and contribute to urban collective transport issues, while implementing at the same time actions promoting alternative transport modes: park-and-ride, dedicated bus lanes, accessibility improvements at interchanges, higher bus frequencies, improved infrastructures, cycling routes or walking streets; with all actions integrated within frameworks such as car or bike sharing plans, school or business travel plans...
- Contribute deeply to many different related research and assessment activities such as new, all-inclusive training and communication initiatives supporting the project objectives.
As an integrated project, SUCCESS will involve extensive investment in the participating cities, a large range of actors and integrated packages of demonstrative measures; it will also support extensive educational and dissemination activities to ensure that the lessons learnt are exploited widely across Europe. The project will also take into consideration the relevance of such measures to economic and social matters, as well as to cultural heritage and to related activities such as tourism.
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| Expected Results and Exploitation Plans |
The SUCCESS project will provide European local authorities and decision makers with a consistent and ambitious panel of best practices for managing urban transport in medium sized cities with respect to environment, citizen satisfaction, traffic congestion, safety and flexibility. The expected results include both policy recommendations and environmental progress.
Contributions to European and national policies, by:
- providing guidance on the procurement and operation of clean vehicle technologies in the urban setting;
- taking into account accessibility issues in the sustainable transport implementations;
- developing new technologies for implementing innovative transport processes
- contributing to new processes in administering transport policies at the city level, which could be transferred to other cities
- producing generalised conclusions about sustainable urban policies for other European cities
- helping accession countries to implement environmental friendly technologies
Environmental targets:
- use of alternative fuels: the target for all the vehicle fleets is a decrease of 20 % in the use of fossil fuels, 10 % in energy consumption and CO2 emissions and 10 % in Particulates, Nox and No2 emissions
- modal shift from private transport to public transport, walking and cycling: the target in La Rochelle is to achieve increases of 2% per year in bus trips and 5% per year in bike trips, and a 3% per year decrease in car trips; in the entire Lancashire County, the target is to restrict traffic growth to 5%, and in the city to achieve a reduction of 5% in car use, and an increase of 25% in bus and non-motorised transport.
- land-use and transport integration will help reduce travel distances and harmful effects of noise due to motor vehicle traffic, making the number of accidents decrease, and doubling the share of parcels and pallets delivered by the logistics centre.
The 3 SUCCESS cities have been involved in other European projects and can benefit from their membership of international and national networks (POLIS, ACCESS, GART, UITP, CEMR...) to disseminate the results.
Ploiesti, responsible for dissemination in the SUCCESS project, will be particularly active at that level, producing promotional material such as leaflets, posters, CD-Rom, and the WebSite.
The cities will organise Civitas Promotion presentations through seminars, conferences or special national occasions linked to the transport issues.
They will also organise targeted communications, for students or workers, training sessions - including participative and all-inclusive ones such as „learning the city without car”, „building a sustainable city”, regional and national courses addressed to local authorities and other community actors with the relevant experts.
There will also be technical exchanges between the participant cities and between them and other national cities.
Finally, the cities will jointly produce a methodological guide built on their case studies to promote a market oriented integrated package of clean technologies.
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| Contacts |
Project Coordinator:
Jean-Marie Grellier
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Project Manager:
Elodie Richard
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Project Evaluation Manager:
Tom Parker
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Project Dissemination Manager:
Milena Perpelea
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Project Technical Manager:
Dominique Breuil
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Project Support:
David Blackledge
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