Project description
Integrated mobility solutions for port cities
Port cities are unique urban environments that combine the best of both worlds – sea and land – and are thus ideal testing grounds for multidimensional urban mobility solutions. The EU-funded PORTIS project will design, demonstrate and assess integrated sets of sustainable mobility solutions in five major port cities located on the North Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the Mediterranean Sea (Trieste), the Black Sea (Constanța) and the Baltic Sea (Klaipėda), and in a major international follower port city on the East China Sea (Ningbo). The project aims to demonstrate that more efficient and sustainable mobility is instrumental in establishing vital and multimodal hubs for urban, regional, national and international mobility.
Objective
Port Cities can be seen as multidimensional laboratories where challenges connected with urban mobility are more complex due to the dual system of gravity centre: the city, the port, not to mention their shared hinterland.These peculiarities are at once a challenge and an opportunity, as they provide scope for planning, researching and implementing integrated mobility solutions in distinctively complex urban contexts.
Civitas PORTIS designs, demonstrates and evaluates integrated sets of sustainable mobility measures in 5 major port cities located on the North Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the Mediterranean Sea (Trieste), the Black Sea (Constanta), and Baltic Sea (Klaipeda). The project also involves a major international follower port city on the East China Sea (Ningbo).
Thanks to the Civitas Initiative, the partner cities expect to prove that more efficient and sustainable mobility is conducive to the establishment of vital and multi-modal hubs for urban, regional, national and International movements of passengers and goods. To do this, they establish integrated living laboratories clustering local measures according to four major aspects of sustainable urban mobility:
1. Governance: to increase port-city collaborative planning and participation, leading to enhanced forms of SUMPs. 2. People: to foster less car-dependent mobility styles, leading to modal shift in favour of collective and more active transport. 3. Transport system: to strengthen the efficiency of road traffic management to/from the port and through the city, and foster the use of clean vehicles. 4. Goods: to enhance logistics and freight transport, improving the efficiency and coordination of city, port and regional freight movements.
Working with port cities, Civitas PORTIS will generate a strong and twofold replication potential: 1) specifically to other port cities, and 2) more generally to cities presenting major transport nodes and attractors for the benefit of the whole CIVITAS Initiative.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
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Participants (33)
2030 Antwerpen
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2018 Antwerpen
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2800 MECHELEN
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1060 Bruxelles / Brussel
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9000 Gent
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2000 Antwerpen
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AB10 1FY Aberdeen
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AB16 5GB ABERDEEN
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AB11 5SS ABERDEEN
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AB24 5AA ABERDEEN
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AB10 7QB Aberdeen
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34121 Trieste
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34143 Trieste
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34149 Trieste
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34144 Trieste
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34127 Trieste
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900725 Constanta
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900725 Constanta
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900488 CONSTANTA
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900527 CONSTANTA
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900552 CONSTANTA
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900900 Constanta
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LT-91502 Klaipeda
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92235 KLAIPEDA
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09133 Vilnius
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315211 NINGBO
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AB24 3FX ABERDEEN
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3010 Leuven
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011186 Bucuresti
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8010 Graz
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WIT 4TP London
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00187 Roma
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53343 Wachtberg
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