On 26th August, 48 Swiss Cities across Switzerland ratified the „Charter on Sustainable Mobility“. The Charta has been developed by the cities of Basel, Luzern, St.Gallen, Wintherthur and Zurich and can be seen as a milestone for Swiss traffic policy.
For the first time the majority of swiss cities has agreed on objectives and basic principles of a common trafficplanning policy. Such principles are e.g. the emphasis of coexistence between motorized individual mobility and alternative mobility modes, coherence of traffic planinng and a sustainable spatial and settlement development or the improvement of connectivity between rural and urban areas.
Following the holistic approach that traffic systems are part of urban systems as a whole, and thereofre need to consider ecological, economic and social aspects in order to ensure sustainable spatial planning and urban development, the charter is strongly related of the „Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities“.
For more information:
www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/zuerich/staedtetag_verkehr_mauch_1.7340668.html
ICMA is honored to be invited to the NW Europe Annual Event in Dortmund, Germany on 6th June 2012. ICMA will contribute to a workshop focusing on impacts of INTERERG transport projects especially the difference made on the ground by working with...
On behalf of Transport of Greater Manchester TfGM, the City of Genk and the Public Welfare Organisation OCMW Genk, as well as on behalf of the whole partnership of the EU-funded Interreg IVB NWE mobility project ICMA amobilife, we would like to...
In January 2012, a transnational scenario development team, consisting out of 12 selected students from 5 universities,started working on developing a synthesis of NWE mobility project results in form of scenarios for future seamless...
