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Vice President Tajani: EU action needed to promote sustainable urban mobility
Long-awaited action plan to be launched during 2009
Vice President Antonio Tajani reassured stakeholders that the action plan on Urban Mobility will be launched later this year. During a conference held last January Vice President Tajani emphasised his strong commitment to delivering a comprehensive Action Plan tackling the chronic problems created by transport in Europe's towns and cities.
The European Commission is due to publish an Action Plan on Urban Mobility following an extensive consultation on the Green Paper "Towards a new culture for urban mobility". The publication was expected for the beginning of the year but it has been postponed.
Vice President Tajani in charge of transport said: "Today Europe is facing serious economic recession – we must turn this into an opportunity. We must invest in innovative new policies and technologies to make our cities work better – that means reducing congestion, promoting public transport as well as healthy modes of transport such as cycling and walking. We will launch a series of concrete actions this year. They follow an integrated approach on sustainable urban mobility. We
want to work in partnership with the cities and national governments to achieve this"
Vice President Tajani emphasised his strong commitment to the adoption of a comprehensive Action Plan following extensive consultation on the Green Paper"Towards a new culture for urban mobility", which the Commission published in 2007. He outlined in more detail the actions that will be launched by the Commission during 2009. These will include actions to assist public authorities with the implementation of a new Directive for promoting clean and energy-efficient vehicles, as well as funding support for pilot projects and studies on various aspects of sustainable urban mobility.
ACEM participated to the consultation process that followed the publication of the Green Paper on Urban Mobility stressing the contribution of PTWs to city transport. In many European capitals trips on scooter and motorcycles account for almost 20% of the total mileage.
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FRAMEWORK REGULATION ON PTWs TYPE-APPROVAL
CIECA'S COMPETITION FOR RIDER TRAINERS
MCI'S CODE OF CONDUCT FOR BUS LANE USERS
ERF-IRF UNDERLINE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN MUST CONSIDER PTW SAFETY