INFOPOLIS Newsletter

Editorial

Dear members,

This year's EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK was a great success, with many cities and regions across Europe showing their commitment to safer and more sustainable mobility. Ten cities and regions signed the declaration “The New Paradigm for Safe City Streets”, launched on 16 September by Polis and EUROCITIES. The declaration highlights the key role that local and regional authorities play in building safe mobility ecosystems. If you are willing to sign the declaration, please contact Dagmar Koehler. A signing ceremony is planned as part of the closing plenary session at the Polis conference on 28 November.

October will be an exciting month, with many interesting events on mobility taking place. We hope to see many of you next week in Graz at the CIVITAS Forum Conference 2019. Many members of the Polis staff will be there, moderating sessions and hosting workshops, so don’t hesitate to come talk to us! If you haven’t signed up yet to attend the Working Group meeting on Traffic efficiency, held in cooperation with EMTA on 14-15 October in Paris, you can do so here. Make sure to stay in Paris afterwards for the Autonomy summit and join us for the Polis-Autonomy ‘Get our Cities Moving’ programme! Head to our key events section for a full overview of events you should look out for.

I wish you a pleasant read and hope to see many of you soon at one of our events!

Kind regards,

Karen Vancluysen
Secretary General

QUICK NEWS

Secretary General Karen Vancluysen gave a keynote speech on micromobility in cities at the World Collaborative Mobility Congress on 19 September in Bern.

Senior Project Manager Florinda Boschetti was interviewed by Italian magazine Canale Energia on the new SUMP guidelines.

Read the full interview in Italian here.

Calendar

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Polis Network News

Cities sign "The New Paradigm for Safe City Streets" declaration

Deputy Mayor for Mobility and Safety in the city of Lisbon, Miguel Gaspar, along with Polis and Eurocities launched the new city declaration on road safety on 16 September in Brussels.

Get Our Cities Moving: Join us at the AUTONOMY Summit!

The one-day event Get Our Cities Moving, co-organised by Polis and Autonomy, will connect high-level decision-makers from local authorities with leading mobility innovators to reflect on cities’ mobility challenges and the innovative solutions that can help solve them. This event will take place in Paris, on 17 October 2019.

European Week of Regions and Cities: Polis-ERRIN Session on "Integrating New Mobility Services in Public Transport", 8 October 2019, Brussels

Join the open dialogue with cities and regions who will discuss how to identify needs and requirements of local and regional authorities in regulating and integrating new mobility services with public transport.

Register for the joint Polis-EIT Climate KIC workshop "SuSMo–Shared Urban Sustainable Mobility" on 28 29 November 2019 in Brussels

The EIT Climate-KIC project on Sustainable Shared Mobility will kick off in Brussels in 2019 its first workshop, in a series of four events, targeting local governements, and other public and private stakeholders working in shared mobility and micromobility. The SuSMo Project has travel fund for a limited number of Polis members attending the event.

Members in action

Applications for the 8th SUMP Award on Safe Walking and Cycling are open

The call for applications for the 8th SUMP Award was officially launched at the occasion of the 6th SUMP Conference, in Groningen, on 17 June 2019. For this edition, the theme of the SUMP Award is "Safe Walking and Cycling". Applications can be submitted until 31st October 2019.

Brussels’ air up to 80% less polluted during car free Sunday

This year’s edition of car-free Sunday, which was part of the EUROPEAN MOBILITY WEEK, lead to a drop of up to 80% in the levels of pollution, the Brussels Times reports.

European projects

“From Dream to Reality”: Leading Smart City Projects to Share Results in Brussels at EU Regions Week 2019

The three Smart Cities and Communities projects GrowSmarter, Remourban and Triangulum will host the session “From dream to reality: sharing experiences from leading European Smart Cities” at the European Week of Regions and Cities.

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The SPROUT Project: Cities leading the urban mobility transition through the development of innovative policy responses

The new EU-funded project SPROUT kicked off on the 18^th and 19^th of September 2019 with its first project meeting in Zaragoza.

News from the institutions

Rovana Plumb nominated as EU Commissioner for Transport

European Commission (EC) president-elect Ursula von der Leyen presented on Tuesday, September 10, her team and the new structure of the next EC, officially proposing Romanian MEP Rovana Plumb for the position of EU Commissioner for transport.

Complete the questionnaire for the public consultation of the EU Urban Mobility Package

The public consultation of the EU Urban Mobility Package has been approved by the SG and launched just yesterday, September 11, 2019. Responding to the questionnaire will be possible from September 11 to December 4, 2019.

New: Urban Road Safety Award - applications are now open!

European Commission launches new EU Urban Road Safety Award.

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