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Prosperity through innovation and promotion of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (Prosperity)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

PROSPERITY will:1. Produce a culture shift in terms of environment for SUMPs in member states and in the organisational culture of transport planning in city authorities.2. Get ministries and national agencies to play a national leading role on SUMPs, as in many member states these are the organisations from which cities take their main direction; where ministries are already playing this role, to ...
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Analysis of the European energy system under the aspects of flexibility and technological progress (REFLEX)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The future energy system is challenged by the intermittent nature of renewables and requires therefore several flexibility options. Still, the interaction between different options, the optimal portfolio and the impact on environment and society are unknown. It is thus the core objective of REFLEX to analyse and evaluate the development towards a low-carbon energy system with focus on flexibility ...
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Rethinking Urban Transportation through advanced tools and supply chain collaboration (U-TURN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

"The U-TURN project aims at addressing freight urban distribution, focusing on food logistics. The project will contribute to our understanding of freight distribution in urban areas, especially addressing the special requirements and needs of food transportation, and will suggest innovative collaboration practices and tools towards achieving more efficient operations from both an environmental an ...
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"Coordination, dissemination and evaluation of CIVITAS Plus II" (CIVITAS WIKI)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"The ultimate goal of the CIVITAS Initiative is to achieve “Cleaner and Better Transport in Cities”. Since 2002, a growing number of cities are interested to participate in the CIVITAS Initiative as demonstrator, learner or supporter of innovation in urban transport. The current fourth stage of CIVITAS (called CIVITAS Plus II) will build on the experiences of the previous and on going stages (CIVI ...
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BUSINESS MODELS FOR ENHANCING FUNDING AND ENABLING FINANCING OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN TRANSPORT (BENEFIT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

BENEFIT takes an innovative approach by analysing funding schemes within an inter-related system. Funding schemes are successful (or not) depending on the Business Model that generates them. The performance of the Business Model is affected by the implementation context and the transport mode. It is matched successfully (or not) by a financing scheme. Relations between actors are described by a go ...
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Living in a sustainable world focused on electrified rail (LIVINGRAIL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

LivingRAIL will develop scenarios on the state of living style, cultures, mobility and economic activities in Europe by 2050 and explore a vision on the future role of the environmentally friendly, electrified railways within them.LivingRAIL will elaborate prospective and normative scenarios investigating possible evolutions leading to a reduction of the environmental harm of transport and in the ...
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OPTIMISED CO-MODAL PASSENGER TRANSPORT FOR REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS (COMPASS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The work to be carried out in COMPASS can build on a substantial body of knowledge on co-modal and intermodal passenger transport already available from past and current projects, in particular KITE, LINK, INTERCONNECT, HERMES, CLOSER, ORIGAMI and USEmobility. From this basis, COMPASS’s specific scientific and technological objectives are:To identify key trends (demographic, societal, economica ...
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Support Action for Evaluation and Monitoring of CIVITAS Plus (POINTER)

Start date: Sep 15, 2008, End date: Nov 14, 2013,

CIVITAS POINTER is the Support Action to support cities and the EC with the monitoring (1) evaluation (2) of the whole CIVITAS Plus action. Objectives of CIVITAS POINTER are: 1. Independent formal monitoring of the project deliverables and reports from the demonstration projects and provision of specialist and independent advice to the European Commission; 2. Independent overall cross-site eva ...
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Assessing the social and economic impacts of past and future sustainable transport policy in Europe (ASSIST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The main objective of the ASSIST proposal is to provide the EU with sound policy advice on the possible social and economic impacts of future sustainable transport policies that would bear the potential to contribute to the strategic objectives of the EU given by the Lisbon Strategy, the Sustainable Development Strategy and the upcoming EU-2020 strategy.The ASSIST proposal follows a broad definiti ...
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Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions of transport beyond 2020: linking R&D, transport policies and reduction targets (GHG-TransPoRD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"In early 2007 the EU adopted the objective to limit climate change to 2 degrees Celsius. More specific, the European leaders defined a target to reduce greenhouse gases by at least -20% until 2020, or -30% if an international agreement is achieved, compared with the emission levels of 1990. Until 2050 the reductions of the EU emissions should reach -60 to -80%. Transport currently contributes abo ...
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DEveloping the MObility CRedits Integrated platform enabling travellers to improve urban TranspOrt Sustainability (DEMOCRITOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

"The 24 months project introduces the Mobility Credits Model as a transport specific platform that will enable travellers, mobility providers, technology providers and transport planners to understand the implications of climate policy and increasing prices for greenhouse gas emissions and to identify new opportunities in urban mobility first and in extra-urban mobility later. The concept of the M ...
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INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN SHORT AND LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT NETWORKS (INTERCONNECT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

"INTERCONNECT is concerned with the role of local and regional connections in the context of growing importance of interregional passenger journeys in the European Union. Poor interconnectivity among different transport networks and among different scales of modal networks might compromise the objectives of integration of the TEN-T network investments and policy measures. The proposal addresses t ...
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