CIVITAS Portis - Sustainable mobility for port cities

Challenge

Port cities present a number of mobility challenges. However, they also provide scope for planning, researching and implementing successful, integrated mobility solutions in complex urban contexts.

Solution

CIVITAS PORTIS - funded by the EU - designs, demonstrates and evaluates integrated sets of sustainable mobility measures in five major port cities located on the North Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the Mediterranean Sea (Trieste), the Black Sea (Constanta), and the Baltic Sea (Klaipeda). The project also involves a major international follower port city on the East Coast China Sea (Ningbo).

Each one establishes integrated living laboratories clustering local measures according to four major aspects of sustainable urban mobility, namely governance, people, transport system and goods.

This helps partner cities prove that more efficient and sustainable mobility is conducive to establishing multi-modal hubs for urban, regional, national and international movements of passengers and goods. This, in turn improves the dialogue and cooperation between city and port authorities in order to incorporate port and regional dimensions in sustainable urban mobility plans.

Impact

As Innovation Manager, SLR was responsible for designing a unique Innovation Process across the five port cities, to ensure more efficient and effective mobility systems that responded to stakeholder needs. The pilots demonstrated and evaluated integrated sets of sustainable mobility measures including making urban freight more energy efficient by minimising large goods vehicles in city centres, route optimisation and adding clean vehicles to municipal fleets.