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European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities: Strategic Implementation Plan
Posted on: 22 January 2014
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The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities & Communities seeks to significantly accelerate the industrial-scale roll-out of smart city solutions integrating technologies from Energy, Transport and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This is where there is most untapped innovation potential and most environment and societal benefits to be gained. The EIP has published its Implementation Plan, setting out the EIP’s ideas on how to best harness innovative technologies, innovative funding mechanisms and innovative public private partnerships. The focus is very much on societal and environmental benefits.
The impact of Crossrail on visitor numbers in central London
Posted on: 21 January 2014
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Arup was commissioned to undertake this study in order to help businesses, local authorities and other organisations revisit and plan for the likely impacts and opportunities that Crossrail may bring to central London. Driven by population and employment growth in London and the South East, the report reveals that Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road and Farringdon stations could serve as many as 250 million visitors into and out of central London by 2026. This figure represents 65 million more passengers than the 2004 estimates suggested. On an annual basis, this is equivalent to some 166 million additional passengers than use the three stations today.
Transport infrastructure investment: Capturing the wider benefits of investment in transport infrastructure
Posted on: 16 January 2014
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This report from the Royal Town Planning Institute argues that transport infrastructure, uniquely, has the ability to open up previously undevelopable land which can then be used for housing and provide new opportunities for employment activity, but because this is rarely an immediate consequence and the benefits are difficult to quantify, it is not fully accounted for in cost-benefit analyses. The result has been that too few infrastructure projects which could have acted as a catalyst to growth have been approved.
Rethink transport and climate change. Warsaw, 17 November 2013
Posted on: 8 January 2014
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Co-organised by the Bridging the Gap (BtG) and the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), the Transport Day is designed to bring together experts and Parties to facilitate discussions on how land transport can play a more visible role in a post-2015 era. Four streams of break-out sessions are: Mitigation Potential of Transport Sector; Policymaking on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport in the Developing World; Ensuring Effective Transport NAMAs; Integrating Adaptation in Transport Policies, and Financing of Sustainable Low Carbon Transport. Presentations are available online together with a summary of conclusions from the breakout sessions.
Smart, green and integrated transport. Brussels, 18 December 2013
Posted on: 8 January 2014
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The first round of calls under the Smart, Green and Integrated Transport challenge of the new Horizon 2020 Framework Programme will be published at the end of the year. To support the preparation of proposals, the Transport Directorate of the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Directorate-General is organising an Information Day on 18 December 2013from 9 AM till 6 PM in the Charlemagne building, rue de la Loi 170, Brussels. The aim of the day is to inform potential participants in the first round of calls under the Smart, Green and Integrated Transport Challenge of the new Horizon 2020 Framework Programme and to offer some unique opportunities for networking. Presentations are available online.
Economics of investment in high-speed rail. New Delhi, India, 18-19 December 2013
Posted on: 8 January 2014
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The roundtable has been convened to examine the key factors that drive the costs of high-speed rail investment and review the economic benefits delivered by high-speed rail services on the basis of papers that review experience in a range of countries that have developed large high-speed rail networks. Participants with expertise on the economics of smaller scale high-speed rail systems will also be invited to the discussions. The Roundtable will be held in New Delhi in order to contribute to deliberations on the potential for investment in high-speed rail in India. Presentations are available online.
Urban Land articles
Posted on: 7 January 2014
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Five of the most popular articles from the 2013 issues of Urban Land, published by the Urban Land Institute, can be read online. They include: the fading differentiation between city and suburb; Medellin voted most innovative city; new suburbanism: reinventing inner-ring suburbs; eight qualities of pedestrian- and transit-oriented design; and rail-centric construction gets back on track.
Door to door action plan
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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Efforts to make it easier for people to choose greener ways of travelling to and from public transport hubs are working, according to a new report. The door to door action plan, published by the Department for Transport, identifies the good work being taken forward that will help make door-to-door journeys by public transport, cycling or walking the norm. The report outlines progress on the door to door strategy which was launched on 14 March 2013.
Attitudes of Europeans towards urban mobility
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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The results of a survey looking into Europeans’ attitudes towards urban mobility has been published. The survey was designed to look at Europeans’: transport habits; experience of transport problems in EU cities; opinions of measures to improve travel within cities; and expectations for traffic improvements within cities and their opinions of who is responsible for these improvements.
CIVITAS Webinar: Revolutionary roads. 17 December 2013
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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This webinar was held to discuss innovative design solutions and road use for safer, smarter and more efficient streets. Presentations from the event are available online.
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