PROJECT: „ISEMOA – Improving Seamless Energy-efficient Mobility chains for Al”

Supported by: Intelligent Energy – Europe

BUDGET: 1 557 468 €

DURATION: 36 months (2010 May – 2013 May)

PARTNERS: 19 organizations from 13 European countries (Austria,  Germany, Bulgaria,  Spain, Slovenia, Romania, Poland, Belgium,  Swеden, UK, Slovakia, Ireland, Italy)

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PROJECT SUMMARY: ISEMOA aims to help European municipalities, cities, and regions to increase energy-efficiency in transport by improving the accessibility of the door-to-door mobility-chains and thus enabling all citizens and visitors (including people with reduced mobility (PRM)) to adopt a less car-dependent life-style. Furthermore, improving the accessibility of public spaces and public transport will increase the quality and attractiveness of public transport, and contribute to increase safety in walking and cycling.

In order to achieve this goal, ISEMOA will develop tailor-made quality-management-schemes for continuous improvement of the accessibility of the whole door-to-door mobility-chain in European municipalities, cities, and regions (in the following text these schemes are called ISEMOA QM-schemes). These QM-schemes are a standardised quality management process with which a municipality, city or region can assess (together with an external auditor) the state of the art of accessibility in public space and public transport and on that basis develop strategies and measures to improve the quality of accessibility continuously.

The ISEMOA QM-schemes will apply a holistic approach by taking into account:

• the needs of all categories of PRM (i.e. people with disabilities, people with heavy/bulky luggage, people with small children, people with temporal impairments, older people,…)
• the whole door-to-door mobility-chain, including walking, cycling, public transport, multi-modal mobility
• all kinds of barriers (i.e. barriers related to physical conditions, organizational aspects, attitudes of people,…)

In order to elaborate these ISEMOA QM-schemes the project sets a strong focus on continuous involvement of all relevant stakeholder-groups right from the beginning of the project: Representatives of PRM, city-consultants, and cities form the Advisory Committee of the project and bring in their point of view throughout the whole project. Furthermore, the development of the

ISEMOA QM-schemes will be an iterative process as they will be implemented in 15 test-sites all over Europe, and will be improved according to the stakeholders’-feedback.

These implementation-processes will also raise awareness among the local and regional decision-makers of the correlation of energy-efficiency in transport and accessibility. Furthermore, the implementation-processes will initiate communication among all relevant local/regional stakeholders and help to bring forward a local/regional strategy for improvement of accessibility.

ISEMOA will actively approach consultants, agencies, and organizations working with municipalities/cities/regions all over Europe and invite these stakeholders to attend the ISEMOA training-workshops for external auditors which will be implemented in 15 European countries in order to enable consultants, agencies, and city-advisors to use the ISEMOA QM-schemes for their daily work with municipalities, cities, and regions. The ISEMOA website will provide an information and networking platform for external auditors and interested public entities.

More information: www.isemoa.eu

PROJECT: “ADD HOME – Mobility Management for housing areas – from car-dependency to free choice”

Supported by: Intelligent Energy Europe

PARTNERS:

• Austrian Mobility Research, FGM-AMOR, Austria
• Azienda Mobilità e Infrastrutture S.p.A., Iatly
• ILS NRW, Germany
• Rhomberg Bau GmbH, Austria
• University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovenia
• BSRAEM, Bulgaria

BUDGET: 1 557 468 €

DURATION: 36 months (May 2010  – April 2013)

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PROJECT SUMMARY: ADD HOME aims to reduce transport needs and is fostering a modal shift from car-trips to energy saving modes especially starting from residential areas.

ADD HOME has three main tasks:
1) Demonstration projects on mobility services, infrastructural changes in the planning phase and offers that foster energy saving modes of transport
2) Elaboration of guidelines and a set of materials for followers and future projects
3) Large scale dissemination through various media channels, national training sessions and the exploitation of associations’ possibilities

ADD HOME covers the thematic fields of transportation, mobility management, administration of housing areas, planning and constructing of housing areas as well as legislative and regulative preconditions all together resulting in energy savings. Its interdisciplinary approach is goal-oriented to the needs and demands of the key actors within the project.

ADD HOME has defined 9 target groups including stakeholders and market actors. Among these groups are 3 main target groups.

• • Public authorities / decision makers
  • Housing companies / construction companies
  • Transport providers
  • Tenant associations
  • Mobility / land use experts
  • Mobility service providers
  • Management / energy agencies
  • Local suppliers (local economy)
  • Legislators

ADD HOME will show its impacts and results in several areas, some of them will become visible immediately, others will show under a longer term perspective

Outcomes of ADD HOME
1) Energy savings (pre-condition, accessibility, mobility services)
2) Training (well-educated experts, self-study-material)
3) Dissemination (roll-ups/poster, homepage, brochure, teaser postcards, e-newsletter, links, e-presentations, E-learning)
4) Networking
5) Pioneer-Work

Energy savings are realised in three different fields. They are described in the following paragraph. It is expected that ADD HOME will achieve energy and emission savings within the project duration of

• 34,034,000 kwh,
• 3,640,000 l fuel and respectively of €
• 9,100,000 kg CO₂ and
• 36,400,000 km motorised mobility.

More information: www.add-home.eu

PROJECT: “ADDED VALUE – Information and awareness campaigns to enhance the effectiveness of investments and infrastructure measures for energy-efficient urban transport”

Supported by: Intelligent Energy Europe, Grant agreement no.: EIE/07/127-SI2.466704

DURATION: 36 months (01.11.2007 – 31.10.2010)

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PROJECT SUMMARY: The aim of the ADDED VALUE project (funded with the STEER program of IEE) is to add value to big investments and infrastructures made for alternative, energy saving transport modes, which are either already in place or are being planned and implemented during the project time. This is to be achieved through applying marketing tools, and information and awareness campaigns to promote and make better use of these infrastructures

Why a project like ADDED VALUE?

The overall idea of ADDED VALUE is to improve the cost-benefit ratio of (expensive) infrastructure and investment measures in transport by supporting them with intensive (and relatively cheap) information and awareness campaigns so that they are more readily accepted and used by the citizens. Nowadays very often these big investment measures are implemented without any accompanying promotion. All the money is spent for construction and building, with no money provided for the necessary soft measures. This would be unthinkable in the car industry when a new model is produced. Similarly, if one builds a new very nice and fancy theatre, people would be aware of it and would appreciate it. But without an attractive programme they won’t use it for the purpose it was built – to visit plays. Taking these examples ADDED VALUE demonstrates the importance of the combination of hard measures (infrastructure & investments) with soft measures (marketing, information, promotion) to maximise cost-benefit effects. In eleven different cities and regions all over Europe applications have been implemented dealing with the promotion of big investments / infrastructure measures by soft measures such as mobility management and travel awareness campaigns to promote energy efficient clean transport. The promotions include pedestrian zones and walking as well as cycling, public transport and multi-modal (e.g. park & ride). The applications are carried out in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Romania, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, France and Bulgaria. The whole range of campaigns and measures from the Added Value project varies from the pure design and dissemination of information material, to public participation of users in the decision and planning process, to possibilities for testing new behaviors including training sessions and finally to competitions, raffles and games. The activities target both emotional and rational aspects. While engaging and consulting with stakeholders, decision makers and planners, the target groups for these campaigns are mainly end users – the citizens.

Implementation in Varna, Bulgaria

Cycle training for schools

Promotion of the newly constructed cycling path of almost 10 km was the goal of the Added Value project. The overall campaign was based on three activities: the organization of information days, provision of bicycle training in the schools and a “Day without car” campaign. One of the most successful activities was bicycle training, conducted in 10 Varna schools with more than 500 participants. Almost as many teachers and parents were indirectly trained as well. Cycling safety experts introduced the most important road signs and basic safety rules to the trainees. The practical lessons were assessed as a cycling competition with the winning team representing the school in the 24th May procession. Amateur short movies were shot in some of the schools and will later be used during road safety lessons. The campaign was covered by local media and was viewed by an audience of almost 550 000.

More information: http://eu-added-value.eu

PROJECT: “e-TREAM – E-Learning for training energy agencies in mobility MANAGEment and alternative fuels”

Supported by: Intelligent Energy Europe

DURATION: January 2006 – July 2008

PARTNERS:

• B&SU, Germany
• BSRAEM – Black Sea Regional Agency for Energy Management – Varna
• Bulgaria Energy Agency of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• Energies Environment 74 –  France
• BALTEF – Baltic Energy Forum, Germany
• Regional Energy Agency of Crete –  Greece
• REACM – Regional Energy Agency of Central Macedonia Anatoliki SA Greece
• EC-BREC – Association of Polish Energy Actors at local and regional level –  Poland
• BAPE – Baltycka Agencja poszanowania Energii S.A.,Poland
• OEINERGE – Agência Municipal de Energia e Ambiente de Oeiras –  Portugal
• Harghita Energy Management Public Service –  Romania
• FAEN – Fundación Asturiana de la Energía – Spain
• AER – Agència Energètica de La Ribera – Spain, Energikontor Sydost – Sweden
• CRES Training Section –  Greece, Team Red Networks KG

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PROJECT SUMMARY: 
The objective of this project is to complement their activities by integrating these training modules in an e-learning platform, available for all Energy Agencies. This way the staff of the Energy Agencies can extend their skills independently from time or location via internet or on a CD-ROM, even after the duration of the project. In the project the partner Energy Agencies will use their new skills for implementing new services for mobility issues.

Activities: The project is structured in 8 work packages including project management. The project has basically three phases:

 

• The development of the e-learning platform for training;
• The training of the Energy Agencies;
• The implementation of new services

• Work Package 1: Analysis of the demand for training;
• Work Package 2: Formation of and Expert Board;
• Work Package 3: Development of the e-learning platform;
• Work Package 4: Application of the e-learning platform;
• Work Package 5: Implementation of new services;
• Work Package 6: Review of the new services and project evaluation;
• Work Package 7: Dissemination / Common dissemination.

Expected results:

1. The partner energy agencies will be able to offer new services in the transport sector;
2. The employees will be trained and then multiply the effects with their consulting and dissemination activities;
3. The e-learning tools will provide modules for individual training sessions to enhance the transport knowledge of the Energy Agencies;
4. The new services will promote an increased awareness and a reduction of energy consumption in the transport sector.

These new services will have a positive effect in many areas, for example:

• Reduction of energy consumption and pollution (air, noise)
• Optimization of the transport system (transport plans etc.)
• Reduction of accidents
• Promotion of alternative fuels (CNG, bio-fuels, electric cars etc.)
• Promotion of mobility management (for schools, companies, authorities etc.)
• Promotion of more sustainable transport modes (walking, biking, public transport etc.)
• Awareness raising and information campaigns for a more sustainable mobility
• Sufficient mobility opportunities for all citizens (especially handicapped, families, elderly)

5. The project will contribute to several European guidelines for example the Green Book or the “White Book of Transport”.