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Reducing transport noise in cities: CityHush final expert seminar and city workshop. Stockholm, 11 December 2012
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The European CityHush project supports city administrations with the development and implementation of noise action plans according to the directive EC 2002/49. Noise action plans made with existing technology suffer from major shortcomings: there is a poor correlation between hot spots and annoyance and complaints, most measures lead to increased emissions, and only indoor noise comfort is addressed. In order to reduce noise in city environments, CityHush developed suitable problem identification and evaluation tools and designed noise reduction solutions for hot spots that show a high correlation with annoyance and complaints. The final results on research and recommendations regarding quiet zones, noise score rating models, low-noise vehicles, low-noise road surfaces, and noise barriers were discussed at this conference. Presentations are available online.
European Network for Housing Research Conference 2011. Toulouse, 5-8 July 2011
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The main theme of this conference was Mixité” (“Mixité”:an urban and housing issue?).While many researchers have reservations about a certain ideal of diversity that is supposed to banish the evils afflicting contemporary societies (segregation, ghettoisation, the disintegration of social ties), they also question the normative or prescriptive dimensions of the injunction for social diversity that inspire a number of public policy acts. Mobilising debate and analysis of researchers from various countries is of quite some interest in that Europe, as a whole, encompasses different views of what it means to live together. Papers are available online.
Achieving the goals of the White Paper on Transport: how civil society can help with delivery. Brussels, 7 December 2012
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The EU Transport White Paper requires swift implementation. So far, the lack of progress in EU transport policy has been partly due to the fact that there has been insufficient involvement of civil society in both policy-making and policy implementation, and any involvement there has been has not been adequately structured. This conference aimed to assess the weaknesses in current practice and propose new means of getting the civil society on board. It also provided insight into the forms that a truly cooperation-based decision-making process could take at different levels of governance (European, national and local). Presentations are available online.
Land use planning tools for local adaptation to climate change
Posted on: 7 January 2013
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This report provides a collection of land use planning tools for local adaptation to climate change being used by municipalities across Canada.
Rail 2020
Posted on: 7 January 2013
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The House of Commons Transport Select Committee had published the findings of its rail inquiry launched in March 2012. It took the McNulty report and the Government’s rail Command Paper as its starting points but sought from the start to take a broad view of the rationale for Government support for rail and the strategic vision for rail for the rest of the decade.
Can interior design improve the quality of life in extra care housing?
Posted on: 4 January 2013
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This Factsheet is intended to be used as a discussion tool and aid when considering the interior design for a new build or refurbishment housing scheme for older people, including extra care housing. It is not about building regulations and correct design guidelines, but rather about finding inspiration for making purpose-built housing desirable and an attractive place where older people want to live.
Housing in London 2012
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Housing in London is the evidence base for the Mayor’s London Housing Strategy. The Mayor formally adopted his London Housing Strategy in February 2010 and in December 2011 he consulted on proposals for a new Strategy. Housing in London is divided into two sections, reflecting the thematic chapters of the public consultation draft of the new London Housing Strategy: covering demographic pressures, housing affordability, the wider housing market, mobility, housing need, housing supply, empty homes, the private rented sector, decent homes, accessible housing, energy efficiency and fuel poverty.
Reading list on financing sustainable urban transport
Posted on: 4 January 2013
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The updated document aims to provide policymakers with an easy-to-access list of available material on financing urban transport which can be used in their everyday work. It gives an overview of available resources that highlight the importance of financing transport in cities and show how the existing situation could be improved.
Reducing sign clutter
Posted on: 4 January 2013
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The Department for Transport has published advice on the removal of unnecessary traffic signs to highway authorities in Great Britain.
CIVITAS Guide for the urban transport professional
Posted on: 3 January 2013
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Since the year 2002, the CIVITAS Initiative provides opportunities for European cities to implement innovative sustainable urban mobility measures. So far, 59 cities across Europe have implemented more than 730 innovative urban mobility measures within the CIVITAS Initiative, and eight more cities are ready to test additional innovative measures in two new projects starting in 2013. The document shows to what extent CIVITAS contributes to the intended paradigm shift towards new urban sustainable mobility. It offers urban transport professionals insights into the various results, lessons and practical examples that have been generated in the first ten years of the CIVITAS Initiative.
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