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COMMUNICATION
CIVITAS PORTIS PORTIS
Port cities deal with some unique cities work together to generate and involvement and participation in the
challenges, from getting cruise ship build innovation, while assessing how field of sustainable mobility has been
passengers to the city center, to effective their efforts are. It transfers set up in Constanta, while in Klaipeda,
routing truck traffic, to docking ships. the most useful innovations to other the transport system has been
Given their multi-modal nature – port cities and marketplaces. The improved and alternative transport
road, air, rail and sea – they are the brand new second edition of the modes have been promoted. All of
perfect place to try out new solutions CIVITAS PORTIS innovation brochure the measures implemented thus far
encompassing all aspects of mobility. is available for download at the are already having positive effects on
CIVITAS PORTIS webpage. the modal split of the cities involved.
CIVITAS PORTIS – “Innovative
and sustainable urban mobility CIVITAS PORTIS has already brought Thanks to improved mobility and the
solutions for European port cities” is about some significant changes with re-development of public spaces,
implementing a number of initiatives consistent gains for public transport, CIVITAS PORTIS will also contribute
in five geographically, culturally walking and cycling in all cities’ living significantly to employment and
and climatically diverse port cities laboratories. economic growth in the ports and
in Europe, located on the North their surrounding areas. The living
Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the The umbrella brand, “Smart Ways to laboratory areas are expected to
Mediterranean Sea (Trieste), the Black Antwerp”, involves a huge number attract more than 300 new businesses
Sea (Constanta), and the Baltic Sea of partners and stakeholders and at least 3,300 new jobs. l
(Klaipeda), as well as in a follower working together to create a shift
port city in China (Ningbo). towards sustainable mobility, aimed
at informing, raising awareness,
The five living laboratories are testing supporting the development of
49 innovative mobility solutions innovative mobility solutions and
ranging from newly-emerging achieving behavioural change. In
technologies to policy-based and soft Aberdeen, the way people approach
measures in four areas: better city- travelling in and around the city has
port cooperation; healthier and more been re-defined and road space
sustainable port cities; integrated, for collective and active travel
clean mobility systems; and more modes has been recovered. Trieste
efficient freight transport. is developing a sustainable urban
mobility plan, centered on new
But the living laboratories are not the opportunities arising from the recent
only ones who will benefit from these incorporation of the “Porto Vecchio”
measures: CIVITAS PORTIS helps area, a city within the city. Real civic
For further information
please have a look at
https://civitas.eu/portis
or contact:
Marijke De Roeck
Marijke.DeRoeck@stad.
Antwerpen.be
Project Coordinator
Silvia Gaggi
sgaggi@isinnova.org
Project Manager
Ingrid Briesner
briesner@fgm.at
Dissemination Manager
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
