Moderation: Dr. Frithjof Reul and Bernd Szczepanski
Part 1
The workshop started with a presentation on “Sustainable Urban transport and Local Agenda 21” by Frithjof Reul. He presented contents and ideas of the LA 21 Berlin in the field of transport. A further topic was ”Mini-Audits” for European cities. Mini-Audits are part of the BIN-project. Main idea is to develop a set of transport related indicators which is comparable between different European cities. Such an indicator set would allow comparisons in terms of the developments in the transport sector and to monitor the effects of transport-related policies. Possible indicators, which are relevant in all European cities, easy to collect and easy to understand are
• Motorisation (passenger cars per 1000 inhabitants)
• CO2 emissions in the transport sector
• Data for Noise
• Data for air quality (PM10).
BIN-Project partners are requested to make suggestions for further common indicators and to collect data for the proposed indicators for their cities.
Part 2
The second part of the workshop started with ideas for a common project by Frithjof Reul. He suggested to develop a Compendium of Sustainable and Integrated Transport Planning for European cities. Target groups for such a compendium are NGOs, Local Agenda 21 initiatives, city and transport planners and municipalities. The Compendium should comprise recommendations in terms of integrated transport planning taken from an own survey to be carried out during the project, common European workshops, expert interviews and European examples (good practices – bad practices). Questions might be:
• What kind of integrated transport strategies do already exist?
• What are characteristics of such approaches?
• What’s about the implementation of such approaches? What seems to be successful? Where are the
difficulties?
• Is there a gap between planning and realisation?
The conclusion of the discussion in the workshop was that participation is the most relevant issue in terms of integrated planning in the participant’s cities. Hence a common European project should comprise the following elements:
• Identification of very concrete transport and planning issues in each project city where a
lack of participation is obvious (see workshop ideas below)
• Starting a participation process on this issues by special workshops including all relevant
stakeholders
• Preparation of case studies on the local level
These elements are representing the local (city) level of “integrated transport planning and participation”.
On the European level of the envisaged project the following activities should take place:
• Exchange of experiences in terms of project results
• Evaluation of the results
• Development of the Compendium “Integrated Transport Planning” with conclusions and
good and bad practices
The following topics were identified for a common project proposal:
Prague/Czech Republic:
• Parking management
• Transport and preservation of the world heritage
Budapest/Hungary:
• Development of the new government area
• Development of the waterfront/bank of the river Danube
Berlin/Germany:
• Climate change and the transport system: Reduction of CO2 emissions
• The Gleisdreieck: Green in the Citiy
• Airport Tempelhof: Transformation into Green zones
Kosice/Slovakia:
• Transport and preservation of the world heritage
• City development and shopping areas
Szeged/Hungary:
• Improvement of public transport
• Car free inner city
Wrocław/Poland:
• Bike traffic strategy
• Recreation areas
• Transport and European Football Championship in 2012
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