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InfoPolis
InfoPolis #155
December 2016 |


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Polis Network News
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New issue of 'Thinking Cities' magazine released |
The latest issue of our magazine 'Thinking Cities' was released on 1 December at the 2016 Polis Conference, titled: "Creating the autonomous city?". 'Thinking Cities' is a cooperation of Polis with publisher H3B media. It is available as pring magazine and online.
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Video clip "Rotterdam, new cycling capital in the Netherlands" |
Polis conference delegate JP Amaral from Brazil has recorded a video clip about cycling in Rotterdam. Have a look (in Portuguese, soon with English subtitles)!
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Members in action

European projects
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Presentations of the 1st MAVEN stakeholder consultation with cities about automation are now online! |
MAVEN (Managing Automated Vehicles Enhances Network) organised its first stakeholder consultation meeting with local authorities and urban road stakeholders in Barcelona on 15 November. A short report and presentaitons are available to download.
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Call for Contributions: International Cycling Conference 2017 & PASTA final conference |
PASTA project - Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches, is organising its final conference in cooperation with the International Cycling Coference (ICC2017) in Mannheim on 19-21 September 2017. Save the date!
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Bike share takes off |
On Nov. 30th in Rotterdam, European city politicians gathered at the first European Bike Share conference and signed a ‘statement of support’ to promote bike sharing. In addition the 160 delegates heard of the plans to set up a global bike share platform to help cities, operators and others to run and spread bike share more efficiently.
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Read CityMobil2 final publication: Experience and recommendations |
The CityMobil2 project which demonstrated Automated Road Transport Systems (ARTS) in urban environment, officially came to an end in August 2016. However, the last publication of the project has been launched in early December at the Polis Conference in Rotterdam (1-2 December 2016). A summary of the CityMobil2 activities and results as well as the main recommendations of the project partners to local, national and European authorities are gathered in the new booklet: "CityMobil2 Experience and Recommendations".
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Successful year for the Smart Cities Marketplace (EIP-SCC) |
Have a look at the current state of play of the Market Place of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC) after a successful 2016.
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Final conference of the BiTiBi project, 7 March 2017 Utrecht |
The BiTiBi project promoting combining bicycles and trains for transport will hold its final conference in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on 7 March 2017.
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Electric Mobility Europe call for projects, deadline 6 February 2017, 17:00 CET |
To further promote and advance electric mobility in Europe, European countries and regions together with the European Commission and the European Green Vehicles Initiative Association set up the Electric Mobility Europe Call 2016 (EMEurope Call 2016).
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News from the institutions
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EC strategy on C-ITS deployment is published |
The European Commission has published its long-awaited strategy on cooperative ITS. The strategy sets out a number of actions under a range of areas. The option of using the ITS Directive, whose 5-year extension is currently being adopted, to mandate (some of) these actions is not ruled out.
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Around Europe and beyond
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ECOMM Call for Presentations open until 16 December |
The European Conference on Mobility Management (ECOMM) invites sustainable transport stakeholders to submit abstracts to present at ECOMM 2017. Next year's ECOMM takes place 31 May - 2 June 2017 in Maastricht, NL.
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OddEven.com: the non-profit research and information portal on the global Odd-Even traffic restriction phenomenon |
Polis would like to raise your attention on OddEven.com – a non-profit research and information portal that specialises in providing news and research on the global Odd-Even traffic restriction phenomenon.
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International conference on transport and health is accepting abstracts for presentation |
The International Conference on Transport & Health (ICTH) will be held June 27-29, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. The event is open to policy-makers, practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines involved in transport planning and engineering, public health, urban planning, spatial and architectural design, environmental planning, economics and beyond.
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Urban Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI) factsheets and policy papers available |
The Urban Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI), led by UN-Habitat in cooperation with the urban mobility SOLUTIONS network continues to support cities to develop implementation concepts for integrated sustainable transport measures. Polis is also a member of the UEMI.
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