Project description
Sustainable transport measures in smaller cities
Innovative transport measures are crucial for addressing the challenges of congestion and pollution while improving the quality of life in urban areas. However, small cities lack the necessary capacity to implement sustainable transport initiatives effectively. The EU-funded SUITS aims to bridge this gap. It will focus on capacity building in local authorities and transport stakeholder organisations, with a particular emphasis on smaller cities. By modelling knowledge gaps and understanding weaknesses in participating cities, SUITS will develop tailored strategies to enhance capacity and transform transport departments into learning organisations. Key outputs include a capacity-building programme, resource-light learning assets and decision support tools. It will also measure the effectiveness in reducing transport problems.
Objective
SUITS takes a sociotechnical approach to capacity building in Local Authorities and transport stakeholder organisations with special emphasis on the transfer of learning to smaller sized cities, making them more effective and resilient to change in the judicious implementation of sustainable transport measures. Key outputs will be a validated capacity building program for transport departments, and resource light learning assets (modules, e-learning material, webinars and workshops), decision support tools to assist in procurement, innovative financing, engagement of new business partners and handling of open, real time and legacy data. SUITS argues that without capacity building and the transformation of transport departments into learning organisations, training materials will not provide the step change needed to provide innovative transport measures.
Working with nine cities to model gaps in their understanding, motivation, communication and work practices, will provide each city with a map of its own strengths and weaknesses with respect to sustainable transport planning. From this, strategies to enhance capacity, based on each authority’s needs will be developed and organisations provided with the necessary techniques to increase their own capacity, mentored directly by research partners. Local champions will be trained to continue capacity building after the project. Using the CIVITAS framework for impact evaluation, the effectiveness and impact of SUITS in enabling reductions in transport problems such as congestion and pollution while improving cities capacity to grow as well as the quality of life for urban dwellers and commuters through the development of inclusive, integrated transport measures will be measured in the cities and at individual, organisational and institutional levels. All project outcomes will be disseminated in a stakeholder engagement program at local, national and EU wide levels, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful transport measures.
Fields of science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- social sciencessocial geographytransporttransport planning
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebusiness intelligence
- social sciencessocial geographytransportsustainable transportintelligent transport systems
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
CV1 5FB Coventry
United Kingdom
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Participants (23)
10129 Torino
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00136 Roma
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A63 NH90 KILCOOLE CO WICKLOW
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
46980 Paterna
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2795 197 LINDA A VELHA
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546 27 Thessaloniki
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
09133 Vilnius
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
98693 Ilmenau
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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546 25 THESSALONIKI
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
023953 Bucharest
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
10122 Torino
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10122 TORINO
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CV1 1GF Coventry
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55132 KALAMARIA
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46002 Valencia
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54628 THESSALONIKI
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8230 BALATONFURED
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
42103 Wuppertal
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
00145 ROMA
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510134 Alba Iulia
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N1 9AB LONDON
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B193SD Birmingham
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