LOW-CARB

ABOUT LOW-CARB:

Public transport in functional urban areas has a high impact potential for reaching the EU’s White Paper goals to cut transport emissions by 60 percent by 2050 and to halve the use of conventionally fuelled cars in urban transport by 2030.  The LOW-CARB project aims to enhance capacities for integrated low-carbon mobility planning for functional urban areas by tackling burning issues such as integrated coordination, institutional cooperation and action plan implementation including joint financing and public investments in low-carbon mobility systems in times of austerity.

FORESEEN RESULTS:

LOW-CARB’s strategies, action plans, tools and pilot actions will reduce CO2 emissions by almost 60 000 tons by 2020. Strategies and pilot actions will reflect main challenges and new trends such as open data based mobility planning, integrated mobility platforms or implementation of low-carbon technologies in pilot actions, including an electric public transport feeder service or solar-powered e-bike charging stations to link public transport and shared mobility.

LOOKING TOWARDS 2020

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Strategies and
Action Plans

22

Capacity Building
Sessions

1

SUMP
COMPETENCE CENTRE

6

Pilot Initiatives

14.01.2019

News

Realising a LOW-CARB Future

As part of our interview series, the LOW-CARB Digest spoke to Ronald Juhrs, Managing Director of Technology and Operations at LVB, Leipzig’s public transport company, about the city’s new ‘2030 Strategy‘ and its forthcoming LOW-CARB action plan, as well as those measures we can expect to see realised in the northern 'pilot' area of Leipzig. Given that the company sits at the helm of the LOW-CARB project, we also asked him to share his views on the project at the midway stage. Read the LOW-CARB Digest Interview here.

You can also explore past news, events and interviews here.

14.11.2018

Events

Peer-to-Peer Exchange Programme - Call Extended

LOW-CARB’s ‘Follower City Programme’ has already wowed interest from as far afield as Batumi, Krakow‘s Metropolitan Area and Muszyna, the intermunicipal community of Oeste, Porec and Tirana. But for the five envisaged peer-to-peer exchanges to succeed, LOW-CARB seeks to fill *all* free places. Our deadline has therefore been extended to March 1st, 2019, so if your region, city or town lies within the Interreg Central Europe area and develops a SUMP for its functional urban area and/or foresees or undertakes a low-carbon mobility pilot measure, this is for you! Apply today to become one of our 18 exclusive followers!

Activities

WP 1

STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLANS

LOW-CARB will play an integral role in the development of sustainable regional low carbon mobility plans for its partner cities in work package 1.

The urban areas of Brno, Koprivnica and Leipzig will develop plans for integrated low-carbon public transport services, while Szeged will focus on company travel plans. Parma will develop an action plan for multipurpose charging infrastructure for public transport e-services.

The project will also propose three strategies for: i) low-carbon mobility planning; ii) introducing innovative public transport services; and iii) open data-based mobility planning.

WP 2

TRAINING

Two training sessions per partner country will be held across Central Europe in the local language, as part of work package 2, while four transnational events will also be organised:

  • One in 2018 and another in 2019 on low-carbon mobility planning & innovative mobility offers (including company engagement);
  • A policy workshop at a significant international location (Dec. 2019); and
  • An exploitation workshop with financers and users (March 2020).

LOW-CARB also invites 18 ‘follower’ cities via a call here to join the project from mid-2019. Invitees are expected to prepare a mobility plan for their respective urban areas.

WP 3

PILOT ACTIONS

Capitalising on two investment schemes, five pilot actions, each related to multi-modal public transport planning and innovative low-carb technologies:

  • In Koprivnica, bike- and ride-sharing schemes fueled by solar-powered e-bike charging stations will be integrated into the public transport system;
  • Leipzig will employ multimodal information services such as a Mobility as a Service mobile app to encourage shared mobility.
  • Szeged, a CO2 trip calculator;
  • Skawina will test an electric public transport feeder service.

Experiences will be shared at a final conference in 2020.

ETC.

TOOLS

LOW-CARB’s dedicated focus on integrated low-carbon mobility planning will result in the development of the following tools, under work package 1:

  • A framework for the monitoring and evaluation of the impact of low-carbon sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs), tested by the city of Brno; and
  • An innovative instrument that allows regions to self-check the compliance of their regional SUMP processes with EU Guidelines.

The project’s achievements will be made available through a Central Europe SUMP Competence Centre, under work package 2 (and this website).

DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 

Discover more about the LOW-CARB project with this pint-sized flyer entitled 'MAKING IT COUNT.' 

Dec. 2017: The ‘LOW-CARB’ Declaration represents a voluntary statement to embrace the project's objectives. Learn more via the 'Hall of Fame' here, and via our first press release here.


Making it Count
Online Now! Issue 3 of the LOW-CARB Digest

The LOW-CARB Digest offers a round-up of past, present and future project, city and EU news! To book your copy, download Issue 3 of December 2018 and subscribe to future issues beneath. You can also still read Issue 1 of Jan. 2018 and Issue 2 of July 2018.

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Newsletter Registration

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