Dear <<Name>> <<Surname>>,
Mobility is still at the top of citizens’ and policy-makers’ concerns. It is all the more true during this critical time, where our mobilities are restricted due to the COVID-19. In these circumstances, the Urban Transports Community’s achievements and resources are of the greatest interest to urban mobility planners and policy-makers.

For this reason, we are organising several events this autumn and would like to count on your active participation (see below the details). Most notably, we organise a side event on the occasion of the Urban Mobility Days, a workshop at the European Week of Regions and Cities, and MedCities organises with the MOBILITAS Project a thematic seminar to engage our Community in a closer dialogue with Southern Mediterranean Cities.

To promote your results and achievement, we have just published the Urban Transports Community Position Paper as part of our participation in the EU Public Consultation on “Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy” that closes on September 23rd. The elaboration of this position paper has been the occasion to gather the Community and discuss the most needed strategic actions the EU Institutions should take to promote sustainable and resilient mobility solutions post COVID-19.
 
On 30th June 2020 some of you have attended the webinar “Smart and Sustainable Mobility Measures in Tourist Destinations”, co-organised with the Sustainable Tourism Community and the CIVITAS Destinations project. The report and the recordings are available on our Community's website here.

Besides all these activities, we are also preparing a series of webinars on the thematic of “Implementing Sustainable Mobility in the Mediterranean” where we invite local authorities, civil society organisations, Universities, mobility planners and private companies. The objective of these webinars is to set the ground for future cooperation by discussing sustainable mobility strategic issues among our Community. More information will be available soon.
 
Thank you very much for your attention and all the best

Ermete Mariani
On behalf of the Urban Transports Community

The Urban Transports Community organises a side event at the Urban Mobility Days “Sustainable mobility solutions in the Mediterranean: Successes and lessons learnt of pioneer cities” on 2nd October 2020, 14:00-15:00 

Is your city interested to learn about successful and innovative solutions on shared mobility, bike promotion or the use of technology to reduce traffic? Brought by the Urban Transports partners, this session will unveil what the Urban Transport Community can offer you to not only learn about successful sustainable mobility solutions but to be mentored through the process of adapting them to your local context.

>> Register at http://www.eumd.org/register

Register here until 27/10

This session will showcase the Urban Transports Community (UTC) catalogue of replicable solutions on sustainable mobility in the Mediterranean area. Local governments and mobility stakeholders from across the Mediterranean region will be briefed on the most recent trends and innovative measures ready to be replicated on soft mobility, car-pooling and shared mobility, data for smart traffic management and mobility in tourist destinations. Tourism and mobility will be at the core of the second part of the session, in which the UTC partnership and the Sustainable Tourism Community of the Mediterranean programme will unveil some of the most interesting practices being tested in the region, including cycling provision for tourists, integrated mobility planning schemes for tourists and locals and better management of tourist flows using big data.

Moderator:

_ Oriol Barba, Director, MedCities, Spain.

Speakers:

_ Cristina Núñez, Sustainable Tourism Community, Managing Director, NECSTouR, Belgium

_ Fabio Tomasi, Urban Transports Community, Head of International Project Department, Area Science Park, Italy

Insights into the "Handbook on Sustainable Mobility in the MED Area" 

MedCities has the pleasure to invite the city members of the network to an online session that will unveil some of the most impactful solutions on sustainable mobility being tested across the Mediterranean region. 

Discover the detailed agenda, inspiring speakers, and the concept note

Join us for an enriching discussion with experts and implementers of innovative measures to reduce the impacts of the transport and mobility sectors on the environment and to increase liveability in our cities. The session will focus on increasing public space while reducing the car-dependency in our cities, and promoting soft mobility for tourists and locals.
The session will also introduce the follow up of the GO SUMP project, the new Urban Transports Community project, led by MedCities, which is aimed at facilitating and promoting the adoption of some of the solutions in the Handbook across the Med area.
 
Registration is still possible! 
bit.ly/HandbookUTCRegistration

The Urban Transports Community is participating in the European Commission public consultation on the EU Green Deal, with a specific focus on “Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy". The project partnership, featuring the Urban Transports Community, has identified in this public consultation an important opportunity to promote a common stance on the future of sustainable mobility, grounded on the results of its seven territorial cooperation projects.

To succeed in drafting a Position Paper representing the whole Community, we have organised an internal consultation process and a brainstorming meeting. More than 30 participants attended the meeting on 16th September 2020, which featured the intervention of Curzio Cervelli (Coordinator, Interreg MED Programme Joint Secretariat) and Ivo Cré (Director, POLIS Network), moderated by Laia Vinyes (MedCities), Claudia Ribeiro (POLIS Network) and Ermete Mariani (UNIMED).

At the end of the process we have drafted the “Position Paper of the Urban Transports Community on the EU Public Consultation on Sustainable and Smart Mobility” that we invite all the organisations associated to the Urban Transports Community to share and attach to the survey for the Public Consultation.

>> READ MORE

This webinar brought together three big European projects dealing with the development of smart and sustainable measures in tourist destinations: two Interreg MED communities of projects on Sustainable Tourism and Urban Transports and CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project, funded by Horizon 2020. Those projects were introduced by Mr. Josep Rodríguez, Barcelona Provincial Council, on behalf of MED Sustainable Tourism Community; Mr. Oriol Barba, Medcities, on behalf of MED Urban Transports Community; and Mr. Panos Coroyannakis, CRPM, on behalf of CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project. Moderation was conducted by Ms. Sandra de Puig, NECSTouR.

The goal of this webinar was to share good practices on the integration of sustainable and smart mobility in tourism policy/products and to showcase some concrete examples and practical guidelines developed by those projects with a special focus on Mediterranean destinations.

_ The full video is available on the Urban Transports Community’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYgurWYHdoY&t=244s&ab_channel=UrbanTransportsGoSump

_ The audio podcast is available on the Sustainable Tourism Community's Castbox channel https://castbox.fm/episode/Webinar%3A-Smart-and-Sustainable-Mobility-Measures-in-Tourist-Destinations-id2231621-id288509344?country=it

>> READ THE REPORT HERE