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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 THE CIVITAS INITIATIVE IS CO-FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION 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 THE CIVITAS INITIATIVE IS CO-FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION Other Developments • • • • Decreasing public financial resources Multi stakeholder cooperation Apps, data, technology Online and social media • … THE CIVITAS INITIATIVE IS CO-FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION Social media ICT for transport (ITS) 5 Event management Involvement Public services Planning Operations Traffic management Listening Monitoring 6 Feyenoord football club – Accessibility App 7 Twitcident – sensing sentiment 8 CIVITAS • > 200 M€ EC investment • 69 demonstration cities • 220 cities member of the Forum Network • 700 measures tested THE CIVITAS INITIATIVE IS CO-FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION 2 CIVITAS Policy Notes To help practitioners in cities to • • • 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 10 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 11 Measure catalogue: example What it is Implementation barriers How it looks like How it works in other cities Benefits 12 Infographics 13 Upcoming developments – Intelligent crossing All road users and infrastructure Accurate situational awareness 14 Understanding your city and your citizens • • • • Network characteristics Mobility patterns Identification of bottlenecks Prioritisation of bottlenecks 15 Closing remarks • • • • 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 16 Read our policy notes | Join the discussion | Achieve more Visit and follow us: civitas.eu | LinkedIn Urban Mobility | @CIVITAS_EU | Facebook/CIVITAS Further questions? Contact me! Teije Gorris | [email protected] | about.me/teije