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Selection from the CIVITAS Policy Note Series:
Guidance for using ICT’s and social media in
Urban Planning and Operations
20 May 2015
Teije Gorris, TNO/CIVITAS
72% of Europe’s citizens live in cities
40% of CO2 from road transport
70% of other pollutants from urban traffic
Millions of hours are spent in urban and
regional congestion
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EC Policy Dimension
• Mobility: Urban Mobility Package (COM)
• Air quality: New Air Quality Directive
• Climate / Energy: Strategy for competitive,
sustainable and secure energy (COM)
• Noise: Sound levels motor vehicles Directive
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Other Developments
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Decreasing public financial resources
Multi stakeholder cooperation
Apps, data, technology
Online and social media
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Social media
ICT for transport (ITS)
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Event
management
Involvement
Public
services
Planning
Operations
Traffic
management
Listening
Monitoring
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Feyenoord football club – Accessibility App
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Twitcident – sensing sentiment
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CIVITAS
• > 200 M€ EC investment
• 69 demonstration cities
• 220 cities member of the
Forum Network
• 700 measures tested
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To help practitioners in cities to
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Choose and define suitable ITS/Traffic Management measures for their city
Choose and define suitable social media strategies for their city
Convince their councillor an citizens of these measures (explain added value)
by providing overview, explanation, guidance and examples
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Step by step guidance
Understanding your
city, using data and
smart (free) tools.
Awareness of legacy
Policy plan
Multi objective,
in line with other
policy
instruments
Current situation
& bottlenecks
Assessment and
selection of measures,
using measure
catalogue
Services
Redistribution
Mode choice
Departure time
Measures
Selling the story, funding
opportunities, smart
partnerships
Implementation
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Measure catalogue: example
What it is
Implementation
barriers
How it
looks like
How it works
in other cities
Benefits
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Infographics
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Upcoming developments – Intelligent crossing
All road users
and
infrastructure
Accurate
situational
awareness
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Understanding your city and your citizens
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Network characteristics
Mobility patterns
Identification of bottlenecks
Prioritisation of bottlenecks
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Closing remarks
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Do not jump into solutions – first identify local
challenges and targets
Turn key solutions available – some of them
are free of charge
Cooperate with Involve other stakeholders
CIVITAS knowledge base contains valuable
information – use it
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