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Conference LAND USE, ACCESSIBILITY and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT 12-14 APRIL 2010 MUSEU DO ORIENTE - Lisbon CITIES, MUNICIPALITIES TRANSPORT OPERATORS TARGET GROUPS AGENCIES, ASSOCIATIONS, NGOs PUBLIC AUTHORITIES COMPANIES RESEARCH AND TEACHING INSTITUTIONS PROFESSIONALS ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 2

COMPONENTS DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 MOBILITY PACKAGE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT CIVITAS IN PORTUGAL PROJECTS FAIR award of TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY PRIZE (cocktails) MOBILE CITIES launch of the PORTUGUESE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT NETWORK Presentation of CIVITAS projects COIMBRA FUNCHAL PORTO ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 3

BACKGROUND IMTT is organising a conference on LAND USE, ACCESSIBILITY and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT. The initiative is being planned in cooperation with EPOMM (European Platform on Mobility Management) which Portugal joined in 2009 via IMTT, and with the Portuguese member cities of the European Comission CIVITAS Programme Coimbra, Funchal and Porto. The conference will last three days: Day 1 is devoted to the presentation and discussion of the objectives and content of several studies conducted by IMTT with the assistance of a range of Portuguese experts, which comprise the MOBILITY PACKAGE : Methodology and Guidelines to approach accessibility, transport and mobility issues in land use planning and management tools (PMOT Municipal Land Use Plans) National Directives on Mobility and Transport Guidance for Mobility Plans Collection of thematic and technical fact sheets to support action Guide to Company and Services Mobility Plans (large and medium-sized journey generators/attracters) Day 2 will feature contributions by leading international experts on key aspects of MOBILITY MANAGEMENT Day 3 will be devoted to the dissemination of Portuguese experiences under the European Comission CIVITAS programme, with contributions by the Portuguese cities of COIMBRA, FUNCHAL and PORTO and the Spanish-Portuguese CIVITAS Network, which includes several other Portuguese and Spanish cities. During the three days, the proceedings will be punctuated by a number of round table discussions aimed at ensuring maximum interaction between the experts, guest speakers and the audience, reflecting on solutions to current mobility problems in European society. The conference will also feature two high profile initiatives: The award of the 1 st TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY PRIZE, launched by IMTT in 2009 on Day 1; The launch of the MOBILE CITIES PORTUGUESE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT NETWORK (joining the EPOMM European network), symbolically represented by a group of founder members and to which other existing mobility networks in Portugal will contribute on Day 2. It is hoped that the conference will attract a large number of delegates from cities, municipalities, transport operators, agencies, associations, NGOs, public authorities, research and teaching institutions and professionals from the sector. The conference is showcased on a dedicated website http://www.conferenciamobilidade.imtt.pt/ with links to key web pages on the conference themes and to the websites of all the conference partners. During the three days, a PROJECTS FAIR will take place in parallel to the conference a place to visit during coffee or cocktail breaks and other intervals. Attendance at the conference is free of charge, but advance registration is required. ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 4

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF IMTT In October 2007, the European Commission launched and put out for discussion its Green Paper on Urban Transport Towards a new culture of Urban Mobility. Starting from the knowledge that towns and cities are today the context of living for the majority of the population, the document also identifies a set of common problems at local, regional, national and European level with highly negative impacts on the quality of life, the health and safety of citizens, the economic development and competitiveness of cities and on their environmental sustainability. It recognises that European towns and cities are all different. But they face similar challenges and are trying to find common solutions. The Green Paper throws down the challenge to the whole of the European Union to pool our thoughts.. in a joint effort which will make it possible to encourage the search for innovative and ambitious urban transport solutions with a view to arriving at a situation where towns and cities are safer, less polluted and more accessible and where traffic within them flows more freely. In recent years, Portugal has approved national Plans, Strategies and Directives in the land use, environment, energy, transport and road safety sectors, has drawn up and is in the process of approving Regional Land Use Plans for all the country s regions and has begun a comprehensive process of revision of Municipal Structure Plans in many municipalities. Many of these instruments contain important guidance on the planning and operation of transport at local and regional level, both for municipalities and for transport operators and other bodies. More recently, the Lisbon and Porto Transport Authorities have been approved and new regulations on the public procurement of transport services have come into force. The Government, through the Secretaries of State for Transport and the Environment, has supported the preparation of a vast number of Mobility Studies and Public Transport Networks and Services Restructuring Studies" and a Programme in 40 municipalities known as Sustainable Mobility Projects. Meanwhile, the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013 has been co-funding actions in the mobility area such as Supramunicipal Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans and Intermunicipal Mobility Plans. Recognising that these initiatives are not always set in a proper conceptual framework or within an operational philosophy capable of producing the hoped-for results in terms of the efficiency, fairness and sustainability of the accessibility, mobility and transport system IMTT believed that the time had come to make an objective contribution to the necessary clarification of the technical/scientific and institutional plans. ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 5

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF IMTT Accordingly, it proposed to define a REFERENCE FRAMEWORK FOR THE PREPARATION OF ACCESSIBILITY / MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT PLANS, which is currently being developed. This project, which we have christened the MOBILITY PACKAGE, comprises a series of studies being conducted simultaneously with the assistance of various consultants to produce directives for land use planning in Portugal and guidelines on various aspects of accessibility, mobility and transport. In order to ensure consistency between the various documents in this system, and a broad consensus in the technical/scientific community on the objectives and content of these documents, a number of working sessions were organised under the aegis of IMTT between the teams and invited experts. It is now time to broaden the debate and thinking to a wide and varied range of agents cities, municipalities, transport operators, agencies, associations, NGOs, public authorities, companies, universities and research centres, and professionals. To that end, IMTT is organising a three-day Conference on 12, 13 and 14 April entitled LAND USE, ACCESSIBILITY and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT which on its first day will encourage a wide debate centred on the Mobility Package ; on the second day it will present the European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM), which Portugal joined in 2009 and will hear contributions from invited experts on European experiences; and on the third day, will receive inputs from Portuguese cities with practical experience of implementation in the context of the European CIVITAS programme. Convinced as I am that the wisdom and experience of everybody are essential, on behalf of the Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes Terrestres IMTT, I have great pleasure in inviting you to participate in this event. President of IMTT António Crisóstomo Teixeira ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 6

Monday 12-04-2010 MOBILITY PACKAGE TIME THEME 09:30 Reception + coffee projects fair Entrance Hall + Foyer 10:30-10:40 OPENING ADDRESS President of IMTT 10:40-11:10 INTRODUCTION TO THE THEME KEYNOTE SPEECH João Ferrão 11:10-11:30 PRESENTATION of the MOBILITY PACKAGE Isabel Seabra 11:30-12:00 Networking projects fair coffee Foyer + Salão Macau 12:00-12:30 A 12:30-13:00 B Methodology for the treatment of accessibility, transport and mobility issues in Land Use Management Tools (PMOT) Guidelines National Directives on Mobility Guide to the preparation of Mobility and Transport Plans Bruno Soares Arquitectos Luís Jorge Bruno Soares/ Robert Stussi/ António Perez Babo Mª do Rosário Partidário/ Bruno Lamas TIS José Viegas/ Faustino Gomes/ Daniela Carvalho/ Susana Castelo 13:00-14:30 Meetings - projects fair (lunch ad lib) Foyer + Salão Macau 14:30-15:20 Round Table THEMES A + B Experts and technical teams (A+B) Fact Sheets on sustainable mobility solutions Transitec 15:20-15:40 C Fact Sheets on methodologies and technical instruments Jorge Vargas/ Christian Camandona/ Discussion Fredy Wittwer / Margarida Neto 15:40-16:10 D Guide to Company and Services Mobility Plans (large and mediumsized journey generators/attracters) DHV Joep Coompmans/ Mª João Silveira/ Teresa Serra 16:10-16:30 Networking projects fair coffee Foyer + Salão Macau 16:30-17:10 Round Table THEME D Experts + technical team + entities 17.10-18:00 Presentation of the results of the round tables Interventions of Secretaries of State 18:00-18:45 Cocktail TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY PRIZE Salão Macau Rapporteurs + Secretary of State for Transport, SS Environment SS of Land Use + IMTT ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 7

Tuesday 13-04-2010 MOBILITY MANAGEMENT TIME THEME 09:00 Reception projects fair coffee Foyer + Salão Macau 09:30-10:45 BACKGROUND + WHAT IS EPOMM? OPENING ADDRESS INTRODUCTION TO THE THEME Mobility Management, a tool to protect the climate and stimulate the economy The Austrian klima:aktiv mobil experience Robert Stüssi +Karl-Heinz Posch (Coordinator of EPOMM) António Crisóstomo Teixeira, President of IMTT The Secretary of State for Transport Robert Thaler Lebensministerium Vienna 10:45-11:15 Mobility Management evolution and experiences since 1990 Bart Desmedt TRAJECT Gent 11:15-11:45 Networking projects fair coffee Foyer + Salão Macau 11:45-12:20 Max European Project Karl-Heinz Posch AMOR Graz 12:20-13:00 Café Concerto + Discussion All the morning s speakers 13:00-14:30 Meetings projects fair (lunch ad lib) Foyer + Salão Macau 14:30-14:55 Integration of land use planning + Mobility Management in the planning of a big traffic generator: The case of Sihlcity Zurich Roberto Tommasi Synergo Zürich 14:55-15:40 Mobility Pact with the city Ángel López City of Barcelona 15:40-16:50 Urban distribution (urban micro-logistics using clean vehicles) Jacques Mollard - La Rochelle (France) 15:50-16:30 Sharing/Transport: Are we on the right road? 16:30-17:00 Networking projects fair coffee Foyer + Salão Macau Eric Britton - New Mobility Agenda/ World Streets Paris 17:00-18:15 Highlights + Café Concerto Presentation of EPOMM + Launch of the Portuguese mobility management network MOBILE CITIES Speakers - IMTT Karl-Heinz Posch Initial signatories of the Network 18:15-19:00 Cocktail Foyer + Salão Macau ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 8

Wednesday 14-04-2010 CIVITAS IN PORTUGAL TIME THEME 09.00-09:30 Reception + coffee projects fair Entrance Hall + Foyer + Salão Macau 09:30-10:00 10:00-10:30 COIMBRA 10:30-11:00 FUNCHAL OPENING ADDRESS INTRODUCTION TO CIVITAS 11:00-11:30 Networking projects fair coffee Foyer + Salão Macau 11:30-12:00 PORTO 12:00-13:00 ROUND TABLE CLOSE OF CONFERENCE 13:00 Projects fair (lunch ad lib) Salão Macau 15:00-17:00 António Crisóstomo Teixeira, President of IMTT Representatives from the cities of Coimbra, Funchal and Porto Bruno Pereira, Deputy Mayor of Funchal / PAC CIVITAS and Robert Stüssi João P. Barbosa de Melo, Vice-Presidente da CM Coimbra Luis Santos, SMTUC / Coordinator MODERN Coimbra Bruno Pereira, Vice-presidente, CM Funchal Claudio Mantero, HdF / Coordinator MIMOSA Funchal Gonçalo Gonçalves, Councilor for town planning and mobility Bruno André Outeiro da Silva Pereira, Coordinator ELAN Porto CIVITAS Plus cities and CiViTAS network cities Braga, Cascais, Coimbra, Faro, Funchal, Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia José María Diez (Burgos) - Representative of the Spain-Portugal CIVINET network EXPERIENCES of 3 CIVITAS Plus CITIES + Portuguese MEMBERS of the CiViTAS NETWORK (OPEN TO ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED) Themes: Measures and actions Evaluation Dissemination, etc. 09:30-13:00 EPOMM BOARD MEETING Sala Nova Deli Private meeting ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 9

Member countries of EPOMM Countries with EPOMM initiators ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 10

PROJECTS FAIR Examples of Good Practice in the Areas of Accessibility, Mobility and Transport Examples of projects in the above fields that are already implemented are welcome. The presentation should emphasise the content and benefits of the projects. Interested presenters may bring posters in Max height 80cm Max 95 cm to 100 cm wide, or other materials (flyers, brochures, etc.) containing information about the project. Presenters should ideally bring handouts for distribution pamphlets, brochures, etc about the presented projects or others. The fair is designed to promote and disseminate projects, not brands or companies. Examples of promoters: Cities, municipalities, transport operators, companies, etc. Closing date for confirming participation and for sending a mock-up of the poster 29 March Closing date for arrival of the poster at IMTT: Friday 9 April ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 11

A B Projects Study teams (main consultants) Experts Methodology and Guidelines for the treatment of accessibility, transport and mobility issues in land use planning and management instruments (PMOT Municipal Land Use Plans) National Directives on Mobility and Transport Guide to the preparation of Mobility and Transport Plans Bruno Soares Arquitectos Coord. Luis Jorge Bruno Soares Robert Stussi António Babo Maria do Rosário Partidário TIS.pt Consultores em Transportes, Inovação e Sistemas Coord. José Viegas Faustino Gomes Susana Castelo Daniela Carvalho Fernando Nunes da Silva (IST) José Manuel Viegas (IST) Manuel Fernandes de Sá Margarida Pereira (FCSH-UNL) Paulo Pinho (FEUP) Álvaro Costa (FEUP) Álvaro Maia Seco (Metro do Mondego) António Babo (FEUP) Fernando Nunes da Silva (IST) Robert Stussi C D Collection of thematic and technical fact sheets for sustainable transport and mobility planning Guide to the preparation of company and services plans (large and mediumsized generators/attracters of journeys) Transitec Engenheiros, Consultores Coord. Jorge Vargas Fredy Wittwer (suíça) Christian Camandona (Suíça) DHV Coord. Maria João Silveira Mrirjam Van der Wege (DHV Holanda) Joep Coopmans Maria Teresa Serra, José Gonçalves ROBERT LAND STUSSI, USE, COMISSÁRIO ACESSIBILITY DA CONFERÂNCIA and MOBILITY MANAGEMENT ROBERT STUSSI, CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER 12