EPOMM Newsletter June 07

A successful 11th ECOMM lies behind us. We provide you with the most striking findings and, connected to the issue, the state of the art of mobility management in 11 countries in Europe, as well as in the MAX research project. We would appreciate feedback on the e-news; also feel free to forward it to other persons so they have the possibility to subscribe. If you do not want to receive the e-news any more, please unsubscribe. If the format of the e-news on your screen is not OK, please click here to see the full screen version.
ECOMM Lund 2007
	130 delegates from Sweden, 170 other delegates from 26 other countries attended a very interesting conference - containing 22 Seminars with 56 presentations, several excursions, a lecture on mobility management, for the first time a scenario workshop and a session on the state of the art of mobility management. The presentations and abstracts can be downloaded here. An overview of the most relevant plenary presentations: Professor John Whitelegg provided his vision of the role of MM in the 21st century and ensuing research needs from a global mobility trends perspective. Download (1.524 kByte). Peder Jensen presented the viewpoint of the European Environment Agency. Download (663 kByte). Päivi Elmkvist, the local organisator, presented the advanced state of mobility management in Lund. Download (2.701 kByte) Muriel Hugosson showed the newest results on the Stockholm congestion charging scheme. Download (2.495 kByte) In the final session, Hans Kramer and Karl-Heinz Posch presented the ambitious programme of EPOMM - partly resulting from preceding workshops at the ECOMM. Download (222 kByte) Christer Ljungbergs made a great summary presentation of the conference. Download (2.567 kByte)
State of the Art: 11 countries reported
	For the first time at the ECOMM, there was a workshop on the State of the Art of Mobility Management in Europe. 11 experts from 11 Western European countries delivered 10-15 page reports on the State of the Art of Mobility Management in their countries, in this way providing a unique, up to date overview of the situation in Western Europe. The reports can all be downloaded here. Next year, these papers will be updated (and also a bit more standardised) and completed with reports from other countries in Europe. A superbrief resume can sum up the following: In the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden mobility management is institutionalised and wide spread In Italy and France it is partly institutionalised but not so wide spread In Germany, Austria and Switzerland it is wide spread but not so institutionalised In Denmark and Flanders the situation is mixed Portugal and Spain are more in a pioneer phase of mobility management The knowledge on other countries in Europe is feeble The overall overview over the 11 countries as presented in the ECOMM State of the Art Workshop can be downloaded here (1.653 kByte). It contains a summarising slide on each country as well as some comparison tables and conclusions. The consequences from this workshop were presented in the final session of the EPOMM, see above - and download here (222 kByte). Highlights: EPOMM will strife to achieve an even better ECOMM - more innovation, higher level involvement, more scientific quality EPOMM will strife to be the network of all European mobility management projects EPOMM will aim to set the European Reseach Agenda in mobility management, starting with a Research Task Force defining the major research needs EPOMM will have more influence in European Mobility Management Policy, a first result being a comment for the forthcoming Green Paper on Urban Transport (see below).
State of the Art: first results from MAX
	MAX is the EU's latest framework research project on Mobility Management (MM) and Travel Awareness (TA) in transport. Four thematic work packages will link these topics to develop products of use to MM and TA practitioners: WP A New approaches and innovative campaigns in MM WP B Development of a predictive tool, based on a new behaviour change model WP C Linking MM to Quality management - leading to MM certification WP D Integrating planning and MM More information is available on the MAX-website, an overview on MAX was also presented at the ECOMM. Download here (231 kByte). The four work packages have each just produced their State of the Art reports, and they are available exclusively in this EPOMM newsletter. Go to this link
ECOMM London 2008
	The upcoming ECOMM 2008 will be in London. A brief presentation (held in Lund) on the ECOMM in London can be downloaded here (846 kByte). London is a world city with enormous traffic problems and very interesting solutions. Caused by its projected population growth, there will be an increase of 5 million trips per day (a 15% increase) in the next 20 years. London aims to have all these extra trips supported by walking, cycling and public transport In 2012, London will host the Olympic Games. London aims to cover traffic to the Olympic locations mainly on sustainable modes London was the first big city to successfully introduce congestion charging, and it has recently extended this scheme London implements large scale mobility management, reflected for example in the aim that each school should have a travel plan by 2009 The programme of the next ECOMM is under development. However, it will aim for the higher quality as set down in the EPOMM ambitions (see above), and it will most probable contain the following topics Tourism and leisure Travel plans Innovations in marketing and promotion of mobility management New mobility management techniques Pricing techniques Comments are welcome, please send them to EPOMM.
ELTIS Training
	ELTIS - Europe's N° 1 web portal on urban transport and mobility carried out it's first training programme for urban mid career transport professionals from new member states and accession countries. In Graz, Austria people from PL, CZ, SI, HU, BU, RO, LV, EE and CS participated in the 3 days course (incl. study visit) with 3 topics: Mobility management and Travel Awareness, Parking Space Management and Alternative Fuels and Vehicle technology. The second 3-days training session also for the target group of mid career transport professionals from new member states and accession countries will be organised in the week from 15th - 19th of October in Tallinn, Estonia., with the topics: Public transport: competition and contracting, Transport efficient land use planning Preparation and submission of proposals for calls in European Programmes. This course presents a unique opportunity to urban transport officials with an interest in developing their professional skills in sustainable mobility. Limited spaces in this course will be awarded to those applicants who demonstrate their commitment and capability to contribute to improving urban transport and mobility. The participation in the training and exchange of experience is free of charge. Training materials are included. More details and how to apply can be found under: www.eltis.org. Please contact Gabor Heves at GHeves@rec.org at the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) to obtain a registration form and detailed agenda.
Brandnew
	The dutch "Fietsberaad", a government sponsored agency to assist in the development of cycling and possibly the premier authority on cycling policy in the world, published a very interesting report in the English language on cycling in the Netherlands. Download (4.120 kByte) (free!).
Talked about…
	"It is therefore essential that any modern city develops a transport strategy that is clearly linked to the land use policy and has a focus not only on service and infrastructure provision but on genuine demand management through mobility management strategies" From the EPOMM Comments and recommendations on the forthcoming Green Paper on Urban Transport. Download (802 kByte)
To come
	From this newsletter on, each newsletter will have a topic. Fitting to July, the newsletter will be on mobility management and leisure traffic. By then, the new website will be online - the layout of this newsletter already gives a first impression of the new look.