INFOPOLIS Newsletter

Editorial

Dear members,

Let me thank you all for having made the 2017 Polis conference a true success! On 6 and 7 December more than 500 delegates attended the conference and learned more about how to address local mobility challenges through urban transport innovation. We received positive feedback both from you as well as other delegates about the quality of the presentations, discussions, and the opportunities for networking. All conference presentations are available on the Polis website. If you wish to see the conference in pictures, a selection of photos is available here while a Twitter recap is under the hashtag #polis17.

We would also like to thank you for your active involvement in our Annual General Assembly, your input will directly feed into the services we’ll be offering you next year and the priority topics we will address. Congratulations to Transport for Greater Manchester for their unanimous election as Polis President, as well as to Helmond, Aarhus, Madrid and La Rochelle for their equally unanimous election as new Management Committee members! Let me take this opportunity as well, to thank the Rotterdam team once more for their commitment throughout the two years of their presidency!

Finally, congratulations again to our member Île-de-France Mobilités which won the Thinking Cities Award for its innovative mobility solution "Vianavigo", a travel planner that not only includes public transport information but also the offers of several carpooling companies in the region. If you didn’t have the opportunity to pick up a paper copy of Thinking Cities Magazine #9, an online version can be downloaded here.

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For now, I wish you a good read, and on behalf of the whole Polis team, happy holidays and all the best for the year to come!

Kind regards,

Karen Vancluysen

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Polis Network News

Polis TE&M WG meeting: automation, governance/regulation, data privacy & traffic signal strategies

The next meeting of the Polis working group on Traffic Efficiency and Mobility will be hosted by Dublin City Council on 23 March 2018. The meeting will take place the day after the final CODECS C-ITS City Pool workshop.

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Members in action

Utrecht Spring Conference - 23rd – 25th May 2018

Building on the 2012 “Learning Cities Platform” event held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the Utrecht Spring Conference 2018 is inviting professionals and thinkers from all around Europe to join a new edition of a Learning Cities Platform event to discuss, debate and explore new ways to approach urban development with all its socio-economic, technical and governance issues.

A Green Start of The Year: Nijmegen European Green Capital 2018 teaser event

Sign up for the Nijmegen European Green Capital 2018 teaser event, hosted by the Dutch Permanent Representation to the EU, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgium and ERRIN.

Polis member Toulouse is happy to kick-off its UIA project COMMUTE

COMMUTE's first goal is to contain, then to reduce traffic and pollutants in the area by encouraging employees to shift car-use towards softer modes.

INVITATION - Smart cities rule the future ! - conference invite 6-7 February 2018 - Murcia

Join Polis member Eindhoven at the event “SMART CITIES RULE THE FUTURE! Roads for a joint green transformation towards 2050” initiated by the R4E Project - 6-7 February 2018, Murcia, Spain

EBSF_2 Gothenburg demo showcase Electric bus and urban infrastructure

Which opportunities for cities and passengers when noise and local emissions disappear?

European projects

FLOW and TRACE projects event will ask how walking and cycling can help reduce congestion (13-14 March 2018)

The FLOW and TRACE projects join forces and invite to their joint final conference on 13 and 14 March 2018 in Brussels. The interactive event includes a TRACE "tracking tour", training sessions, presentations, breakout sessions, political debate, world café and awards.

Integrating health in transport: Handbook of good practice for walking and cycling promotion & policy recommendations

How can cities increase the level of physical activity through transport measures? Which are the most successful measures, and how can these be implemented? Eight good practice examples from cities across Europe which promote active mobility as part of transport infrastructure were compiled into one handbook now available for download.

Registration is open for the CIVITAS Urban Freight Conference, 23-24 April 2018

The CITYLAB, NOVELOG, SUCCESS, U-TURN projects join forces and invite you to the “CIVITAS Urban Freight Conference”, an interactive event including presentations, posters and exhibitions, breakout and training sessions, workshops and awards.

BuyZET Transportation Mapping Reports now available online!

BuyZET aims for procurement of innovative solutions for zero emission urban delivery of goods and services.

CITYLAB MAMCA workshop to discuss urban freight initiatives

The aim of the CITYLAB MAMCA workshop was to explore if different types of stakeholders consider the tested CITYLAB implementations feasible in their city or region.

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News from the institutions

Improved mobility for older people - EUR2 million prize to win!

The European Commission's Horizon Prize for Social Innovation will reward the best solutions for improving the travel mobility of older people: EUR 1 000 000 will be awarded to the best solution and the four runner-up prizes will receive EUR 250 000 each. The prize was launched during the “Opening up to an era of social innovation” conference in Lisbon on 27 November 2017. Submissions will be accepted until 28 February 2019 and the prize will be awarded in the second or third quarter of 2019.

Apply now for the European Start-Up Prize! Deadline 8 January

The European Startup Prize for Mobility, cofounded by Karima Delli together with Via ID and the Boston Consulting Group, will reward the most innovative European startups in the mobility sector by supporting them in their international development.

Funding opportunities and partner search

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Around Europe and beyond

European New Mobility Expert Survey 2017/18

Green Business Development is currently conducting the international “European New Mobility Expert Survey 2017/18”

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