WHO ARE WE?
COMMERCE Skill Share, Warsaw
21st April 2010
Jakub Bojczuk, Senior Travel Plan Officer for SWELTRAC
Sarah Cummings, Transport for London Relationship Manager
(Cycle Superhighways)
On behalf of London European Partnership for Transport
The COMMERCE project
• COMMERCE - Creating Optimal Mobility
Measures to Enable Reduced Commuter
Emissions
• It is a 3 year project
• Funded by Intelligent Energy Europe
Programme - STEER 2007 to 2010
COMMERCE Partners
LEPT, London
CRIF, Paris
EPOMM
Studio Metropolitana, Budapest
RATB, Bucarest
CCIB, Bucarest
Kaunas Municipality, Kaunas
Plovdiv Municipality, Plovdiv
Commuter Emissions, Congestion and
CO2
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Work-related commuter emissions contribute significantly to overall CO2
emissions in the transport sector
Stress, ill health and loss of productivity are directly connected with congestion
Congestion is costing the UK and France respectively 1.5% and 1.3% of their
GDP every year
Workplace Travel Planning is an approach to change commuting and travel
behaviour and raise awareness on climate change
The COMMERCE objectives
• Deliver a strategic approach to the promotion of a
mobility plans in partner cities
• Increase the number and improve the quality of Mobility
Plans developed by public and private organisations
across Europe.
• Exchange of experiences and expertise between two leader
cities (London and Paris) and four learner cities (Bucharest,
Budapest, Kaunas and Plovdiv)
Expected Results
AT THE CITY LEVEL
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Mobility Plan Networks
developed in the four learner
cities and new Mobility Plans
established with local businesses
Skills developed through
exchange of experience and
mentoring between leader and
learner cities
AT THE EUROPEAN LEVEL
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Development of a set of EU
standards for Mobility Plans
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Establishment of a Pan European
Workplace Mobility Management
Award
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Set up of a European Platform on
Workplace Mobility Plans
(EPOWT)
Achivements to date
Achivements to date
Mobility Plan Awards,
ECOMM 2008
2 day Mobility
Plan Training
in London for
New Member State
partners
A national specification
for Workplace
Mobility Plan
in the UK (PAS500)
A Mobility Plan Platform
www.allinx.eu
COMMERCE has
standardised
the support offered
to businesses in
London and Paris
COMMERCE Mobility
Plan Forums set up
Town Centre Mobility Plan
in London
Conclusions so far
• The gap between leader and learner city Mobility Plan progress is vast
• A special Mobility Plan award pushed forward the Mobility Plan agenda
locally.
• The translation of resources and matierials is very important in order to
reach out to the local level.
• Large businesses are generally easier to approach than smaller ones,
and schools should also be considered as workplaces.
• 36 month Mobility Plan Programmes offers a realistic timescale from
start to finish and measuring success in terms of modal shift and Co2
reudction.
• The skill share programme offers a good value for money approach.
Objectives for today @ Warsaw
• To gather together representatives of strategic transport or
planning authorities, business community, cycling action groups
and academics to discuss ways to encourage travel planning in
the local area.
• To identify tangible links between mobility management and
current transport policies in Warsaw such a s bicycle promotional
campaigns.
• To raise awareness of travel plans (mobility plans) as an effective
method to tackle congestion, parking problems and environmental
impact of car use amongst local businesses
Achivements to date
Speakers
Transport Planning
Sarah Cummings
Geography
Jakub Bojczuk
Transport for London (TfL) is the local government body
responsible for most aspects of the transport system in
Greater London. Its role is to implement the transport strategy
and to manage transport services across London
Transport Planning
Business Language
SWELTRAC is a proactive transport partnership covering south &
west London. Over the past 15 years it has grown to now consist of
10 London Boroughs. Its main functions include travel planning,
station access projects, EV charging points, cycling networks.
Achivements to date
Programme for today
Topic
Time
1
Who are we?
10:00
2
What is a travel plan?
10:15
3
Examples of travel plans in London
10:45
4
Area based travel plan network
11:30
5
Technical side of travel planning including surveying
11:50
6
Marketing
12:20
7
One to one meetings
14:00
Achivements to date
Programme for tomorrow
Topic
Time
7
Development Control
10:00
2
Examples of travel policies in Europe
10:30
3
European projects and new opportunities
10:50
4
Cycle Superhighways
11:40
5
Workshop
12:10
6
The first travel plan in Poland
14:00
7
Cycling revolution in Warsaw
14:30