KP7 - Sustainable Surface Transport - Civitas 2011 - Move

Call identifier: FP7-SST-CIVITAS-2011-MOVE

Meeting the EU's medium and long term economic, energy and environmental policy goals will require radical changes to urban transport. CIVITAS Plus II aims to support cities in designing, deploying and evaluating ambitious new policies and technologies for more sustainable urban transport. CIVITAS Plus II will continue to advance knowledge of innovative, integrated urban transport systems, provide networking for cities to assimilate best practice, evaluate impacts and disseminate results. Taking account of the Commission's Action Plan on Urban Mobility, effort in this call should build on past CIVITAS experience and focus especially on deployment and validation of innovative mobility solutions for both urban passenger and urban freight transport.

Expected impacts
Delivering results and knowledge on designing, procuring, deploying, managing and assessing innovative urban transport solutions which integrate new technologies and supporting policy measures. Specific impacts include:

• Promotion of integrated approaches to sustainable urban transport planning and financing, linked with inter-urban networks for passengers and freight.
• Development, demonstration and validation of new policy approaches and innovative transport technologies and systems for improving urban mobility whilst reducing accidents, congestion, energy consumption, air and noise pollution, etc.
• Networking of cities to promote political dialogue, joint public procurement for new technologies, enhance mutual learning and disseminate results and good practice.
• Development of methodologies for assessing cost-effectiveness and long term financial viability of integrated packages of mobility measures.

7.2.3. ENSURING SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY
7.2.3.4. Innovative strategies for clean urban transport (CIVITAS Plus II)

SST.2011.3.4-1. Design, implement and test innovative strategies for sustainable urban transport

Projects funded under this topic will design, implement and test integrated transport strategies that address sustainability, whilst improving city vitality, mobility and quality of life. Proposals should include both "leading" and "learning" cities with ambitious, shared objectives to plan, implement and assess similar, innovative, integrated packages of transport measures. Proposals should include opportunities for feasibility studies and joint procurement of innovative new transport technologies.

- SST.2011.3.4-2. Support action for coordination, dissemination and evaluation, CIVITAS Plus

As part of this CIVITAS call, one separate Support Action is envisaged to develop and implement a programme of European-level coordination, dissemination and awareness raising activities that target all relevant audiences.

Content/scope
This Support Action should cover the following tasks:

1. The development and implementation of a European programme for dissemination and awareness raising activities, in close co-operation with the cities. This includes providing information on content and results of the city-projects as well as promoting the CIVITAS Initiative as a whole. This shall include the development of appropriate communication and dissemination tools for the CIVITAS Imitative, in close cooperation with the demonstration projects and the other support actions.

2. The coordination and facilitation of certain activities, primarily in the areas of communication, dissemination and training that are common for all cities and demonstration projects and that will be decided after a user needs assessment. Coordination shall include all activities foreseen by the demonstration projects that are of general interest.

3. The Support Action shall also implement a network of Thematic Groups (virtual and real) as platforms for exchange of experience, discussion and cooperation in specific areas across the CIVITAS Initiative and with third cities and other stakeholders. Thematic Groups shall be established for each of the eight CIVITAS Categories and for a number of other (horizontal) topics of high relevance to sustainable urban mobility, e.g. joint procurement schemes as a stimulus for deploying innovative new technologies, urban transport modelling, evaluation, and monitoring, development of sustainable urban transport plans, etc. The Thematic Groups should also propose actions to involve third party cities with recognised expertise in these areas (e.g. workshops, training placements) and also international cooperation.

4. Providing the secretariat for the CIVITAS Initiative and for the CIVITAS Political Advisory Committee (PAC), including maintenance and further development of the website and database for the CIVITAS Initiative and the organisation of the annual CIVITAS Forum conferences and other events.

5. Ex Poste evaluation of the impacts of the Integrated Projects supported under the FP6 CIVITAS II Call. This should review the ongoing impacts, any unexpected consequences, lessons learned, whether there has been up-scaling and technology transfer.

6. Additionally, research activities may be carried out to develop improved tools and methodologies for informed policy making in the field of urban mobility (e.g. improved cost-benefit analysis / modelling / planning toolbox, RTD on mobility indicators, etc.).

7. The consortium should assure an appropriate level of continuity of approach with that ofthe previous Support Actions funded under CIVITAS Plus to enable meaningful comparisons.