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The EU and urban mobility and transport

Vincent LEINER Clean Transport and Sustainable Urban Mobility

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Overview

Background The Challenges The near term – The Action Plan .

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The long term – EU vision for the future .

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Background

Transport is a pillar of all economic, social and culture life in the EU Europe 2020 Strategy underlines the importance of a mordernised and sustainable European transport system for the future development of the Union Over 70% of our citizens live in towns and cities; over 85% of the EU GDP is generated in urban areas Thus, the urban dimension of transport needs to be considered. Urban transport more prominent of EU’s polical agenda than ever Vincent LEINER | 3

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The Challenges

Maintain an effective and efficient EU transport system that meets the needs of citizens, businesses, .

and industry Reduce the negative impacts of transport on » Energy-supply security (oil dependency) .

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» » » Environment Citizens’ health and well-being Climate Maintain commitment in time of economic crises Subsidiarity requires that all levels of governance need to meet the challenges (local, national, EU) | 4 Vincent LEINER

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The short term

Green Paper on Urban Mobility in 2007 gave new impetus to debate on urban transport in Europe Extensive stakeholder consultation helped identify 20 concrete EU-level actions in six thematic areas for implementation until 2012 The Action Plan on Urban Mobility of September 2009 provides a coherent framework for these action Actions do not impose on-size-fits-all solutions but support and complement local efforts Review in 2012 | Vincent LEINER 5

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The short term

Promoting integrated policies Accelerate the take up of sustainable urban mobility plans (A1) » Information, best practice exchange, training, .

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» » promotion Longer term: incentives? Recommendations ?

Focussing on cizens Passenger rights in urban public transport (A4) Dialogue leading to voluntary commitments on quality indicators, complaint procedures, reporting, … Improve accessibility of urban transport (A5) » Include urban mobility in EU disability strategy Vincent LEINER | 6

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The short term

Focussing on citizens Improve travel information (A6) » Links between travel planners .

» » Ultimate aim: single travel information portal Campaigns on sustainable mobility behaviour (A8) Maintain support, incl. for European Mobility Week .

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Greening urban transport Research and demonstration for lower and zero emission vehicles (A10) Internet-guide on clean vehicles (A11) » Information on vehicles, facilitation of clean and joint procurement | 7 Vincent LEINER

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The short term

Strengthening funding Optimise existing funding sources (A14) Analyse needs for future funding (A15) » » Continue CIVITAS, define CIVITAS FUTURA .

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As part of reflection on next multi-annual financial framework: identify funding needs for urban mobility Sharing experience and knowledge Improve the availability of data and statistics for policy making in the field of urban transport (A16) Urban mobility observatory in form of a virtual platform based on ELTIS (A17) Vincent LEINER | 8

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The long term

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Europe 2020 Strategy underlined importance of a modernised transport system for the future .

development of the Union (incl. the urban dimension) Strategic vision for the future of the European transport system provided with the recent transport .

White Paper: Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area Urban transport Green Paper (2007) and “Future for Transport” (2009) were basis for wide debate on the challenges and opportunities for the transport sector in the long-term | 9 Vincent LEINER

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The 2011 White Paper

Urban transport has been mainstreamed in the EU transport policy and many of the 10 goals and 40 initiatives of the White Paper link to urban transport: » Halve the use of ‘conventionally-fuelled’ cars in urban transport by 2030; phase them out in cities by 2050; achieve essentially CO2-free city logistics by 2030 » By 2020, establish the framework for a European multimodal transport information, management and payment system » 2050, move close to zero fatalities in road transport » Move towards full application of “user pays” and “polluter pays” principles | 10 Vincent LEINER

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The 2011 White Paper Activities linked to action in urban areas:

» 31: support cities in establishing sustainable urban mobility plans and urban mobility audits, setting up a European Urban Mobility Scoreboard => link access to regional development and cohesion funds to cities with sustainable urban transport strategy » 32: Validated framework for urban road user charging and access restriction zones Vincent LEINER | 11

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The 2011 White Paper Activities linked to action in urban areas:

» 33: Define strategy for moving towards “zero emission urban logistics” and promoting joint public procurement » 16: “ Towards a ‘zero-vision’ on road safety, with particular attention to vulnerable users » 22: Seamless door-to-door mobility (system for interoperable and multimodal scheduling, information, online reservation, smart ticketing) Vincent LEINER | 12

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The 2011 White Paper Activities linked to action in urban areas:

» 27: Travel information and awareness raising » 30: Eco-driving requirements in future revisions of the driving licence directive Vincent LEINER | 13

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The 2011 White Paper Activities linked to action in urban areas:

» 24: A technology roadmap for innovation » » 25: An innovation and deployment strategy 26: A regulatory framework for innovative transport Activities aim to foster innovation and deployment of urban transport technologies (including vehicles, alternative fuels, management and information systems, etc.) through demonstration projects, standards, smart mobility partnerships, guidelines, public procurement … Vincent LEINER | 14

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Civitas – Developing tomorrow’s solutions

Development of new technologies and integrated concepts for urban mobility in demonstration projects City-led cooperation and information exchange across Europe Promoting an integrated approach Funded by EU Research Framework Programme Keyfigures: » » »

58 demonstration cities Over 200 network cities 200 M € funding since 2002

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EU Funding Instruments – Examples I

EU Research Framework Programme

- Total of 4.16 B € committed to transport theme in FP7

Structural and cohesion funds

- Approx. 8 B € allocated to clean urban transport - Provide e.g. financial support for 'transport investments and integrated strategies for clean transport’ and for 'promoting clean and sustainable public transport, particularly in urban areas.‘

Public Private Partnerships

- e.g. Green Cars Initiative of the European Economic Recovery Plan with a budget of 5 B € (1 B€ RTD grants + 4 B€ EIB loans) Vincent LEINER | 16

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EU Funding Instruments – Examples II

Marguerite - the 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change and Infrastructure -

joint initiative of Europe’s leading public financial institutions , including EIB - supports green field investments in a number of target sectors, including transport

Other instruments and programmes:

MARCO POLO, …

General grants and tenders

STEER, (e.g. for studies) Vincent LEINER | 17

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Conclusions

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An EU vision for the long-term development of the European transport system has been elaborated and embraces the urban dimension As the same time, the Commission will continue with the implementation of its Action Plan on Urban Mobility .

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THANK YOU!

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Contact:

Vincent Leiner Clean Transport and Sustainable Urban Mobility DG MOVE [email protected]

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Additional information:

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/index_en.htm

http://www.civitas.eu

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