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InfoPolis
InfoPolis #173
October 2017 |


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Members in action
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Member in the Spotlight: How fast cycling in Gelderland encourages modal shift |
Sjors van Duren is Policy Advisor for the Province of Gelderland in the Netherlands and Programme Director of Velo-city 2017, the major cycling conference that takes place from 13-16th of June in the Arnhem and Nijmegen Region. He tells Florinda Boschetti more about his job as the lead Cycling Officer and Programme Director of the world’s leading cycling event.
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Milan and Florence launch free floating bicycles |
Two dockless bike operators have responded to the public tender published by Milan City Council last June. The first fleet of 4,000 free floating bikes was deployed in the streets of Milan on August 30th. A total of 12,000 bicycles will be progressively introduced by the end of the year 2017.
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European projects
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Electric freight in cities: ELIPTIC and FREVUE joined forces in Barcelona |
On Wednesday 13th September, the FREVUE and ELIPTIC projects organised a joint workshop in Barcelona on the theme of "the use of electric PT infrastructure for charging freight vehicles". The workshop was followed by site visits in the city.
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FREVUE comes to an end |
After 4.5 years of demonstration and research activities, the FREVUE project came to an end this month. Find all the final results online and read the project's recommendation to local authorities.
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New conference gathering research results from H2020 road transport projects |
On 29 and 30 November, the 1st EGVIA-ERTRAC conference is taking place in Brussels, entitled "Results from Road Transport Research in H2020 projects". With the support of the European Commission, the conference shall be a display of research results from road transport projects funded under Horizon2020.
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Travel funds available to Local Authorities for the “Active Travel for Healthy Cities” workshop, 19 October 2017 in Paris |
Polis, in cooperation with PASTA project will host the workshop “Active Travel for Healthy Cities” during Autonomy’s Urban Mobility Summit in Paris. The workshop aims to present the new Health economic assessment tool (HEAT) and city case studies of the use of HEAT to inform sound transport policy and Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP).
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Electric freight in cities: ELIPTIC and FREVUE joined forces in Barcelona |
On Wednesday 13th September, the FREVUE and ELIPTIC projects organised a joint workshop in Barcelona on the theme of "the use of electric PT infrastructure for charging freight vehicles". The workshop was followed by site visits in the city.
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NOVELOG cities stories - workshop in Brussels, 11 October! |
Over the past two years, the NOVELOG project has developed four tools to support city logistics policy formulation and decision-making, which have been tested in 12 cities. The preliminary outcomes from selected city cases will be presented at this workshop.
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SULPITER training programme recruits |
SULPITER selects cities and regions for joining its training programme on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans in Functional Urban Areas. The call is open until 15th October 2017.
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Cities & Regions invited to "The European Reality of SUMP" conference - Registration open |
The REFORM conference “The European Reality of SUMP” will take place at the POLIS offices in Brussels on 26 October 2017.
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News from the institutions

Around Europe and beyond
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SUMP Award: Shared mobility in sustainable urban mobility planning |
Each year, the award focuses on a specific theme. For the 6th edition of the SUMP Award, the theme is "Shared mobility in sustainable urban mobility planning". Applications from European cities and regions are welcome until 3rd November 2017.
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