n° 1Directorate General for Energy and Transport

How can the European Commission enhance the acceptability and success of local transport policies?

Seville, 22 March 2007

Eleni KopanezouHead of Unit

Clean Transport and Urban Transport DG Energy and Transport

European Commission

n° 2Directorate General for Energy and Transport

Cities are a central partnerBecause…

cities with good transport attract employment and facilitate growth

some 80% of Europeans live in an urban environment and they move inside and between our cities

cities can take the leadership in fighting climate change and pollution through clean and energy efficient transport solutions

n° 3Directorate General for Energy and Transport

LilleNantesToulouseLa Rochelle

Cork

BristolWinchesterNorwichPreston

Graz

Aalborg

Odense

Göteborg Stockholm Malmö

BerlinBremenStuttgart

Bucharest Suceava Ploiesti

Kaunas

Rotterdam

Prague

Gdynia Krakow

RomeGenoaVenice

Potenza

Barcelona

Burgos

Pecs Debrecen

Tallinn

Ljubljana

CIVITAS cities

n° 4Directorate General for Energy and Transport

CIVITAS I evaluation – main results

Measures with high success rate: Clean vehicles and alternative fuels, mobility management, cycling measures, parking measures and intelligent transport management and information

Measures with high failure rate: Goods distribution and logistics, multimodal interchange, zones with controlled access and road pricing

Measures ‘in between’: Promotion of public transport and shared car ownership or car use

n° 5Directorate General for Energy and Transport

CIVITAS evaluation – main lessons

Measure acceptability can be increased by:

a strong early commitment from stakeholders structural and visible partnership arrangements exploiting the opportunities of policy synergies using different tools to increase user acceptance sound financial management and planning targeted marketing and public relations ensuring availability and maturity of new technology financial and political commitment from the EU

n° 6Directorate General for Energy and Transport

“Intelligent Energy Europe” is the Community support programme to increase renewable energy sources and energy efficiency by overcoming the non-technological barriers (legal, financial, institutional, cultural, social barriers)

Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE)

It is not funding• costs for investments in demonstration nor • large-scale technology applications• infrastructure• research on technology

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Intelligent Energy EuropeTransport-related themes

ALTENER - Biofuels: stimulate production/supply STEER - Alternative fuels and clean vehicles:

stimulate demand STEER - Energy-efficient transport:

promote a reduction of energy use in transport

Common project objectives / expected impacts: Enabling policies Market transformation Behaviour change Training

n° 8Directorate General for Energy and Transport

Intelligent Energy EuropeCall 2007

Call expected in April 2007 Closing date end September 2007 Information Day envisaged in Brussels, 19 April

2007

More information:http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html

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Green Paper on Urban Transport

Origin

Preparations

Main messages till now

Follow-up

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EU added-value to urban mobility

How can the Commission help in enhancing the acceptability and success of local sustainable transport policies? promotion of research and the sharing of good

practices setting frameworks and guidelines setting standards and ensuring interoperability facilitating better co-ordination and co-operation collecting harmonised data offering financial support legislation

n° 11Directorate General for Energy and Transport

Join the preparations of the new Urban Transport Green Paper

Internet consultation, open until 30 April 2007

Conference in Brussels on 4 June 2007 Visit our webpage for up-to-date information,

background and reportshttp://ec.europa.eu/transport/clean/index_en.htm

Thank you for your attention!eleni.kopanezou@ec.europa.eu