Transport links
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European Commission - DG Mobility & Transport
EU transport policies aim at fostering clean, safe and efficient travel throughout Europe, underpinning the internal market of goods and the right of citizens to travel freely throughout the EU. The DG Mobility & Transport page on Europa contains links to key policies, legislation, events and other useful information.
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Clean Vehicle Europe Portal
The Clean Vehicle Portal aims to ensure a level of demand for clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles and encourage manufacturers to invest in development of vehicles with low energy consumption, CO2 emissions and pollutant emissions. It offers access to a large and innovative database system of vehicle data which allows the user to achieve comparable listings of vehicles in order to search terms and procurement requirements and collect individual selections in personal watch lists.
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CEMR / CCRE - Transport Page
The Council of European Cities and Regions (CEMR) works with the European Commission to promote sustainable transport policies. Public transport is one of the major competences of local or regional governments across Europe. Access to transport is also central to ensure social cohesion and inclusion.
Web: http://www.ccre.org/champs_activites_liste_news_en.htm?ID=1
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BESTUFS - BEST Urban Freight Solutions
BESTUFS has established and maintained an open European network between urban freight transport experts, user groups/associations, ongoing projects, interested cities, the relevant European Commission Directorates and representatives of national, regional and local transport administrations in order to identify, describe and disseminate best practices, success criteria and bottlenecks with respect to the movement of goods in urban areas.
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CIVITAS Initiative - Cleaner and Better Transport in Cities
The CIVITAS Initiative helps cities to achieve a more sustainable, clean and energy efficient urban transport system by implementing and evaluating an ambitious, integrated set of technology and policy based measures. The aim is to achieve a significant change in the modal split towards sustainable transport modes.
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Clean@uto Magazine
The French magazine Clean@uto specializes in non-polluting transport.
(Only in French)
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EEA - European Environment Agency - Transport Page
The Transport Page on the EEA website includes indicators of the transport and environment reporting mechanism (TERM) that help to monitor the progress of the EU's transport and environment integration policies. In additrion, there are EEA Reports relating to transport and
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ELTIS - The Portal on Urban Mobility
Eltis facilitates the exchange of information, knowledge and experiences in the field of urban mobility in Europe. It provides a regular news round up, case studies, videos, a photo library, policy reviews, handbooks, on-line tools and much more.
Web: http://www.eltis.org
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EPOMM - European Platform on Mobility Management
EPOMM is the European Platform on Mobility Management, a network of governments in European countries that are engaged in Mobility Management (MM). They are represented by the Ministries that are responsible for MM in their countries. The main aims of EPOMM areto promote and further develop Mobility Management in Europe and to support active information exchange and learning on Mobility Management between European countries
Web: http://www.epomm.eu/
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EU Transport Research Knowledge Centre
The Transport Research Programme Knowledge Centre provides a library of significant findings underpinning policy developments in transport. The aim is to provide a reference point for decision-makers from national, regional and local administrations, industry and researchers. The site includes project results and reports, thematic overviews, publications, links and contacts.
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Fuel Cell Today
The Fuel Cell Today website includes news, reference centre, knowledge bank, events, discussion board and industry forum, careers and a shop.
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Google News Service - Transport
The Google News Service enables you to search for news stories on a specific topic, such as transport.
Web: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=transport
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Green Motorsport
The mission of Green Motorsport is to become the premier motorsport company solely devoted to environmental racing, with emphasis on research into alternative future energies, electric drive trains, Hydrogen and Fuel cell systems, Nitrogen propulsion systems, Ethanol and appropriate technologies. The website includes the latest news affecting motorsport and environmental issues, an events diary, Green Motorsport's history and aims, and enables you to buy batteries, fuel cells and other items. There is also an extensive gallery of photographs on the site and links to other sites that may be of interest.
Web: http://www.greenmotorsport.com/green_motorsport/1,1,388.html
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Schoolway
The Schoolway website is a European network for cool kids and smart schools to make journeys to school safe and enjoyable. It includes numerous sections to assist schools in their planning and teaching.
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SUSTRANS - Safe Routes to Schools
Sustrans' School Travel team encourages children to walk and cycle to school through a range of practical and educational measures. Their goal is to get the whole school community working together to make the school journey safer, healthier and more enjoyable for everyone. The project's aims are to improve road safety and reduce child casualtie, to improve children's health and development and to reduce traffic congestion and pollution.
Web: http://www.sustrans.org.uk/what-we-do/safe-routes-to-schools
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CIVITAS MIMOSA project
Making Innovation in Mobility and Sustainable Actions (MIMOSA) is an innovative project bringing the cities of Bologna, Funchal, Gdansk, Tallinn and Utrecht together. Using their 69 measures, the five cities have joined forces to work together with the citizens towards a new and innovative concept of urban mobility.
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European Commission page: Clean transport, Urban transport
The DG Mobility and Transport page on the European Commission's goals concerning Clean transport and Urban transport.
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ManagEnergy Sectoral Information Kit 6: Energy Efficient transport: moving sustainably!
The sectoral information kit was a service provided by ManagEnergy in 2007 and 2008. The information kits gathered together a wide range of different themes related to sustainable energy such as energy use in buildings, energy education, behavioural change, etc.
Web: /resources/1032
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European Mobility Week
The European Mobility Week is an awareness raising campaign aiming at sensibilising citizens to the use of public transport, cycling, walking and at encouraging European cities to promote these modes of transport and to invest in the new necessary infrastructures.
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EMTA - European Metropolitan Transport Authorities
EMTA brings together the authorities responsible for public transport in the main European cities. It promotes the exchange of information and good practices in the field of public transport organisation, planning and funding.
Web: http://www.emta.com/
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POLIS - European Cities and Regions Networking for Innovative Transport Solution
Cities and Regions for Better Transport. Polis is a network of European cities and regions working together to deploy innovative technologies and policies for a more sustainable mobility.
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UITP - International Association of Public Transport
UITP is the international network for public transport authorities and operators, policy decision-makers, scientific institutes and the public transport supply and service industry. It is a platform for worldwide cooperation, business development and the sharing of know-how between its 3,400 members from 92 countries. UITP is the global advocate of public transport and sustainable mobility, and the promoter of innovations in the sector.
Web: http://www.uitp.org/
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PROCEED - Principles of successful high quality public transport operation and development
The PROCEED project was officially finished in January 2010. All findings of the research conducted within PROCEED have been synthesised to produce the "Guidelines for High Quality Public Transport". These practical guidelines include the most important experiences and have been designed to help decision makers, public transport planners and operators to efficiently and effectively develop, upgrade, finance and manage urban bus systems and related mobility services.
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LUTR - Land Use and Transportation Research: Policies for the City of Tomorrow
The LUTR cluster links several different projects in the area of sustainable urban mobility, including land use, transportation, and the environment. The common objective is to develop strategic approaches and methodologies in urban planning that all contribute to the promotion of sustainable urban development. This includes issues of transportation demands and related land use planning, the design and provision of efficient and innovative transportation services including alternative means of transportation, and the minimisation of negative environmental and socio-economic impacts.
Web: http://www.lutr.net/
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Low Emission Zones in Europe
This website, supported by the European Union, provides a single source of information on Low Emission Zones across Europe. Low Emission Zones (LEZs) are areas or roads where the most polluting vehicles are restricted from entering. This means that vehicles are banned, or in some cases charged, if they enter the LEZ when their emissions are over a set level. They are also know as Environment Zones, Umweltzonen, Milieuzones, Lavutslippssone, Miljozone, Miljözon.
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Marco Polo Programme
Marco Polo aims to ease road congestion and its attendant pollution by promoting a switch to greener transport modes for European freight traffic. Railways, sea-routes and inland waterways have spare capacity. Companies with viable projects to shift freight from roads to greener modes can turn to Marco Polo for financial support.
Web: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/marcopolo/about/index_en.htm
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The Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) action plan
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) can significantly contribute to a cleaner, safer and more efficient transport system. A new legal framework ( Directive 2010/40/EU) was adopted on 7 July 2010 to accelerate the deployment of these innovative transport technologies across Europe. This Directive is an important instrument for the coordinated implementation of ITS in Europe. It aims to establish interoperable and seamless ITS services while leaving Member States the freedom to decide which systems to invest in.
Web: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/its/road/action_plan/action_plan_en.htm
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Travelwise Merseyside
Transport is an important part of our daily lives. How you travel affects your wallet, your health, home life, work, education - and even the future of the planet. There's something in it for you - so let's make Merseyside TravelWise!
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Marco Polo video library
The European Commission's Marco Polo programme helps to reduce the costs of transport to the environment, the economy and society. It is accompanied by a series of multimedia tools such as videos which are free and available to view or download on this website.
Web: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/marcopolo/promotional-tools/videos/index_en.htm
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ESC - European Shippers’ Council
The European Shippers’ Council (ESC) represents the freight transport interests (import and export and intra-continental, by all modes of transport) of business in Europe, whether manufacturers, retailers or wholesalers – collectively referred to as shippers.Members are drawn from national transport user organisations/shippers’ councils, a number of key European commodity trade associations and corporate members.
