10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY - Eltis
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NEWSLETTER SPECIAL EDITION<br />
Dec. 2008<br />
<strong>10</strong> <strong>YEARS</strong> <strong>ANNIVERSARY</strong><br />
Dear Reader,<br />
Many European cities are affected by<br />
the constant increase in motorised<br />
transport. Traffic and mobility are<br />
among the major challenges of our<br />
time. Activities to reduce energy consumption<br />
and the negative impacts on<br />
the environment – e.g. steadily rising CO2 emissions –<br />
very often exclude transport measures. At local and regional<br />
levels, key actors such as decision makers, public<br />
authorities, planners, journalists, researchers, University<br />
staff, energy and management agencies and many other<br />
practitioners deal with transport issues and need up-todate<br />
information and tools to assist them with their implementation<br />
of effective measures. The European Commission<br />
therefore aims to strengthen their knowledge<br />
and foster the exchange of experience.<br />
Back in November 1998 during the “Innovation in Urban<br />
Transport” Conference in Graz, Austria, ELTIS, the European<br />
Local Transport Information Service was launched<br />
by DG TREN.<br />
Now, ten years later, ELTIS has celebrated its <strong>10</strong>th anniversary.<br />
To mark the occasion ELTIS has rewarded<br />
selected users for their active involvement. Ilie Cretu and Ioana Mihailescu from the Romanian City of Sibiu<br />
received the ELTIS Award for the submission of case study N° 1,000 and Szilvia Zsargo from Budapest<br />
received the Award for active participation in the ELTIS User Association. European Commission Policy<br />
Officer Marcel Rommerts presented the awards at a ceremony during the CIVITAS FORUM in Bologna.<br />
Over the past three years ELTIS has developed rapidly. Since the beginning of 2006 the number of case<br />
studies has increased by ca. 300% to currently more than 1,320. Instead of having on average 1-<strong>10</strong> news<br />
items / month, ELTIS now provides 1 per day. The users appreciate this development. The download numbers<br />
clearly demonstrate the fact that more and more people are using ELTIS. By the middle of 2008 the<br />
magic target of 300,000 requests/hits / month was reached and we’re still counting.<br />
It is a pleasure to provide, free of charge, all the materials of ELTIS (many in a wide range of languages)<br />
for downloading from our website, www.eltis.org. Whenever possible, it makes sense for practitioners and<br />
researchers to use existing knowledge. Why re-invent the wheel? We hope that the news and information,<br />
teaching and training materials, case studies (with content on measures and campaigns and their results)<br />
and tools for practitioners available on ELTIS will be reflected in future local policies and strategies. Interested<br />
parties are most welcome to submit their own case studies and results to feed into the enormous<br />
data base of Europe’s N° 1 information platform on urban transport.<br />
ELTIS co-ordinator<br />
ROBERT PRESSL<br />
Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität<br />
Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR
I would like to congratulate most sincerely on the occasion<br />
of the <strong>10</strong>th anniversary of ELTIS.<br />
Transport serves the well being of our citizens. This<br />
must involve a high level of awareness of sustainability,<br />
sensitivity for the environment and responsibility for the<br />
same level of well being of the next generations.<br />
Zoltan Kazatsay<br />
Deputy Director General<br />
Directorate for Energy and Transport<br />
EUROPEAN COMMISSION<br />
If ELTIS wouldn’t already exist, it would be necessary to<br />
invent it and establish it at once! There are so many networks<br />
in Europe. However, I have rarely been that convinced<br />
about the usefulness of a network as I am about<br />
ELTIS. Let me congratulate on the <strong>10</strong>th anniversary. I<br />
wish and hope for many more anniversaries. This is a<br />
festive day not only for the founders and contributors<br />
but also with regards to the efforts for a better and more<br />
sustainable mobility in Europe. Stuttgart, as a centre for<br />
mobility in Europe, is happy to join the celebrations.<br />
Martin Schairer<br />
Vice Mayor of the City of Stuttgart,<br />
Germany<br />
At the ocassion of the <strong>10</strong>th Anniversary of the ELTIS, I would<br />
like to express my admiration for all the achievements and<br />
more than succesful realization of its mission during recent<br />
past decade.<br />
To express my gratitude to the e-platform as such, I would like<br />
especially to underline the importance which www.eltis.org<br />
brings to the experts as well as to the wider community in the<br />
field of searching for and giving proper and extensive information<br />
in creating synergies by combining sustainable mobility<br />
(walking/cycling) and health benefits (more regular, daily<br />
physical activity / cleaner air). To the best of my knowledge, it<br />
represents absolutely the biggest and the best one site source<br />
for these important parts of promotion of healthier, active<br />
lifestyle, which is of invaluable importance in preserving health<br />
and preventing different types of chronic, non-communicable<br />
diseases, among which the cardiovascular are the most<br />
prevalent.<br />
Zlatko Fras<br />
President – UEMS, European Union<br />
of Medical Specialists<br />
Medical Director – University Medical Centre Ljubljana,<br />
Vice-President – Slovenian Society of Cardiology<br />
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Regional<br />
Environmental Center for Central and Eastern<br />
Europe (REC), I would like to congratulate you<br />
on the <strong>10</strong>th anniversary of your organization and<br />
wish to assure you that the entire staff of the REC<br />
is honoured to have become part of this great<br />
success story!<br />
REC will do its best that “Europe’s number one<br />
web portal on sustainable urban mobility” becomes<br />
widely known and actively used in the new<br />
member states and neighbouring countries of the<br />
European Union.<br />
Marta Szigeti Bonifert<br />
Executive Director of the Regional<br />
Environmental Center for Central<br />
and Eastern Europe (REC)<br />
I have often used ELTIS for reference material<br />
for books and papers, as well as a valuable<br />
teaching resource both here at Loughborough<br />
and for external training. It is one of the best<br />
sites on the internet for information about European<br />
best practice in clean urban transport<br />
- I congratulate ELTIS on its ten year anniversary,<br />
and long may it continue!<br />
Stephen Ison<br />
Professor of Transport Policy<br />
Civil & Building Engineering<br />
Loughborough University, UK<br />
As one of the co-founders of the ELTIS project,<br />
the International Association of Public Transport<br />
(UITP) - which represents some 3,<strong>10</strong>0 public<br />
transport operators, authorities and industry<br />
actors from over 90 countries - is particularly<br />
pleased to congratulate you on <strong>10</strong> years of<br />
providing information, exchange and support<br />
on urban transport and mobility in Europe. We<br />
wish you every continued success in the years<br />
to come.<br />
Hans Rat<br />
Secretary General - UITP<br />
International Association of Public<br />
Transport
The tenth birthday of ELTIS proves that<br />
the idea of one consolidated European<br />
information source on urban transport<br />
and mobility was a good one. Despite its<br />
modest means, ELTIS has grown in ambition,<br />
contents and use. I thank all ELTIS<br />
users for their input and support, and all<br />
organisations that have helped to build<br />
up ELTIS for their efforts. I wish ELTIS a<br />
successful future.<br />
Marcel Rommerts<br />
EU Policy Officer, DG TREN<br />
EUROPEAN COMMISSION<br />
Who has success stories about parking<br />
management? How can I get my bus system<br />
fixed? What does a succesful mobility<br />
campaign looks like? ELTIS knows. Congratulations!”<br />
Armin Wagner<br />
Transport Policy Advisor<br />
GTZ - Germany<br />
Congratulations!<br />
Concerns about Urban Freight and its role in<br />
transport systems, are quite recent. There are few<br />
methodological approaches and design tools in this<br />
domain but a large bunch of experimentations and<br />
demonstrations realised in various cities. Experience<br />
sharing and explained show cases are then<br />
the most efficient way for transferring knowledge; in<br />
this way the ELTIS platform is a powerful tool to help<br />
Local Transport Authorities and their associates to<br />
design and to implement adequate solutions as well<br />
as to find contact persons to learn about difficulties,<br />
barriers and opportunities, key success<br />
factors.<br />
Dominique Breuil<br />
Ecole d’ Ingénieurs La Rochelle<br />
France<br />
Gratulation an ELTIS!<br />
ELTIS is a rich source of good ideas and examples of<br />
successful implementation in the field of urban transport,<br />
and for this reason it is of course of great interest<br />
to us as we progress with the implementation of<br />
our own transport policy here in Graz. We are also<br />
very proud that many of the case studies in the ELTIS<br />
database come from Graz, and that in this way our city<br />
can act as a best practice example for the wider public<br />
in the whole of Europe, and beyond. In summary, I<br />
wish ELTIS every success in the future in continuing its<br />
excellent work.<br />
Lisa Rücker<br />
Vice Mayor of the City of Graz<br />
Austria<br />
The ELTIS data base has been proved a very<br />
valuable and indispensable tool for me, both as<br />
a researcher and as a practitioner. ELTIS has established<br />
itself as the one-stop shop for reliable,<br />
useful and integrated information on all aspects<br />
of urban transport for all of us involved in this<br />
field. My sincere congratulations to all people<br />
and organisations that contributed in making<br />
ELTIS such a<br />
success story.<br />
Stratos Papadimitriou<br />
Associate Professor of Transport<br />
System Planning, University of Piräus,<br />
Greece<br />
I would like to congratulate the ELTIS community in its<br />
<strong>10</strong>th anniversary!<br />
Ten years of hard work and contributions of many<br />
European transport professionals have shown that this<br />
service was needed. ELTIS was a dream established<br />
with very modest means and, lots of hope, by a very<br />
small group of European mobility experts. The ELTIS<br />
community has expanded enormously since then<br />
and, keeps on growing. I take the opportunity to thank<br />
all ELTIS users and organisations behind it for their<br />
support throughout these years and, look forward to<br />
celebrate an even most successful 20th<br />
birthday.<br />
Maria Alfayate<br />
Manager International Department<br />
Ingeniería IDOM Internacional SA - Spain
Given the severe problems generated by traffic in<br />
our cities as well as for our citizens, the environment<br />
and the economy everywhere in the world,<br />
the transfer of knowledge [in terms of sustainable<br />
developments and the utilization of relevant<br />
research results from EU-projects] is tremendously<br />
important. With regard to the preliminary papers of<br />
the German Presidency of the EU-Council for the<br />
Charter of Leipzig ELTIS was a treasure trove of<br />
innovative examples and new solutions concerning<br />
urban traffic, crossing language and cultural<br />
boundaries. Congratulations ELTIS!<br />
Tilman Bracher<br />
German Institute of Urban Affairs<br />
Congratulations to the ELTIS team for your excellent<br />
effort! Your commitment, professionalism and<br />
creativity shown while updating ELTIS web page,<br />
organising training events, networking and more,<br />
has been simply superb.<br />
I hereby take the opportunity to especially thank<br />
you for organising ELTIS training which Tallinn<br />
transport professionals have had the pleasure<br />
to attend. Thank you for your support, cooperation<br />
and human scale approach! Wish you all the<br />
enthiusiasm and energy for continuing on your<br />
good work!<br />
Anu Leisner<br />
Transport Authority,<br />
Municipality of Tallinn, Estonia<br />
I would like to congratulate ELTIS team for excellent<br />
job done in providing urban mobility information across<br />
Europe. As me and my colleagues from Krakow have<br />
participated in different training sessions organized by<br />
ELTIS (i.e. in Graz and Budapest) especially<br />
I appreciate professionalism and efficiency of these<br />
events organisation. Basing on our common interests<br />
and excellent cooperation, we decided to organise next<br />
ELTIS training session in Krakow! (April<br />
2009).<br />
Tomasz Zwolinsk<br />
Urban Infrastructure Office<br />
Municipality of Krakow, Poland<br />
Dear ELTIS team,<br />
we congratulate ELTIS to ten years of support<br />
for sustainable mobility.<br />
Since two years we share in ELTIS’s database<br />
of case studies, and this has been a fantastic<br />
success: ELTIS has tripled the number of<br />
mobility management case studies. ELTIS is<br />
for us the most extensive and most reliable<br />
source of sustainable transport information,<br />
but also an excellent support for dissemination.<br />
We wish ELTIS further success and<br />
support for the coming years, and are looking<br />
forward to many more years of cooperation<br />
and growth.<br />
Ka r l-He i n z Po s c H<br />
Co o r d i n a t o r o f t h e eu r o p e a n pl a t f o r m o n<br />
mo b i l i t y ma n a g e m e n t (epomm)<br />
It is with great pleasure that RENAEL (Network<br />
of Italian Energy Agencies) congratulates you on<br />
the occasion of the <strong>10</strong>th anniversary of the ELTIS<br />
Portal.<br />
I know what kind of effort goes into earning such<br />
a result and how hard you must have worked to<br />
achieve such a success. You have been a great<br />
example to the Italian energy agencies in developing<br />
and promoting sustainable urban transport.<br />
Congratulations and best wishes for<br />
continued success!<br />
Angelo Paladino<br />
President RENAEL (Network of Italian<br />
Energy Agencies)<br />
Over a 1200 best practices case studies in <strong>10</strong> years<br />
is quite an achievement. Together with the CIVITAS<br />
website, ELTIS forms a great portal for local transport<br />
initiatives. Congratulations!<br />
Don Guikink<br />
Co-ordinator of CIVITAS Guard<br />
DTV - Consultants, The Netherlands
Congratulations to ELTIS for these <strong>10</strong> years<br />
spent in providing information service about<br />
public transport. It is a real chance to be able<br />
to benefit from such a platform which facilitates<br />
the trans-national cooperation. It is a reservoir of<br />
best-practices useful for all actors in the world of<br />
transport & mobility.<br />
Monique Schirlin<br />
Responsable Communication Keolis<br />
Besançon, acteur du réseau Ginko<br />
France<br />
CONGRATULATIONS, ELTIS!<br />
At the very special occasion of <strong>10</strong>th anniversary, we wish<br />
to extend our sincere congratulations to the whole team<br />
of ELTIS web portal, which, in our experience indeed is<br />
„Europe’s number one web portal on urban transport and<br />
mobility“.<br />
As a small town faced with the challenges of transport<br />
over the recent years we have been trying to find local<br />
solutions, always looking for advice and best practice examples.<br />
ELTIS has provided us with many such inspiring<br />
examples. It has also enabled us to assess the results of<br />
our own programmes and projects in comparision to the<br />
other presented cases and to share our own experience<br />
and hopefully support other communities.<br />
ELTIS has also helped us to connect to other local communities<br />
and made us part of a larger European network<br />
of towns and transport-related institutions. We rely on<br />
ELTIS for reliable, first-hand information and guidance.<br />
We hope to contribute even more in its excellent results<br />
and wish its team many successful decades of excellent<br />
work towards our common aim. Thank you, ELTIS! Many<br />
happy returns.<br />
Zvonimir Mrsic<br />
Mayor of Koprivnica, Croatia<br />
EU Mobility Week Award Winner 2008<br />
Projects and databases come and go,<br />
ELTIS stays! I’ve seen several attempts<br />
to install a info service like ELTIS on the<br />
European level, some of them bad, some<br />
of them good and still exisiting, but none of<br />
them with the depth and the width of ELTIS!<br />
Good luck for at least the next<br />
<strong>10</strong> years.<br />
Willi Raimund<br />
Österreichische Energieagentur -<br />
Austrian Energy Agency<br />
Congratulations to ELTIS for its <strong>10</strong>th anniversary and<br />
to the staff of FGM-AMOR for their excellent work! As a<br />
worldwide network for sustainable urban mobility, Cities<br />
for Mobility has been relying for many years on the precious<br />
best practice examples, available online in many<br />
languages, that allow to transfer successful strategies<br />
and instruments to other cities around the world quite<br />
easily.<br />
Rainer Rothfuss<br />
Leader of the worldwide Cities for Mobility<br />
Network<br />
It is just a coincidence but my daughter<br />
was born in november 1998 and now, I<br />
wouldn´t know what to do without her.<br />
Today, if you ask me about a database for<br />
mobility and urban transport apart from<br />
ELTIS I’ll need time to think. Someone said<br />
you are nº 1 in the world. Congratulations,<br />
Felicidades and Zorionak to all the people<br />
behind ELTIS from Bilbao.<br />
Pedro Luis Emparanza<br />
Instituto de Estudios Territoriales<br />
de Bizkaia / Instituto Para La<br />
Sostenibilidad de Bizkaia<br />
Already ten years?! In the last decade<br />
ELTIS has been part of my daily work<br />
- to learn and to connect with colleagues<br />
of all over Europe working on projects that<br />
I am starting or already working for sometime<br />
and need some advise. When other<br />
Portuguese colleagues ask me about some<br />
topics or projects on transport and mobility I<br />
always give them two advises: go to ELTIS<br />
and just connect!<br />
Mario Alves<br />
Transport and Mobility Consultant<br />
and Senior Advisor to the Mayor<br />
of Lisbon - Portugal
ManagEnergy would like to wish a happy <strong>10</strong>th anniversary<br />
to the EU initiative ELTIS. ManagEnergy has<br />
recently been cooperating with ELTIS. Namely ELTIS<br />
coordinator is a member of the ManagEnergy Thematic<br />
Group on Mobility and Transport. The Thematic<br />
Group is currently working on tools enabling local<br />
and regional energy actors and in particular energy<br />
agencies to undertake actions towards<br />
a more energy efficient SMEs.<br />
Mathieu Henceval<br />
ManagEnergy service provider<br />
The best wishes for ELTIS!<br />
As an environmental organisation we appreciate<br />
very much the information and<br />
services from ELTIS. It is a perfect possibility<br />
for us to foster our know how in the field<br />
of transport and mobility. Since we now<br />
also co-ordinate a STEER project that will<br />
transfer its results into ELTIS we feel happy<br />
even more to be part of this big<br />
success.<br />
Anna Thormann<br />
Co-ordinator of the IEE<br />
project PRO.MOTION<br />
Det Grønne Hus - Køge, Denmark<br />
I’ve used ELTIS many times both in my<br />
PhD research on road pricing, then later<br />
in research about arterial streets and now<br />
in my work in consultancy. It is one of<br />
the most useful resources on sustainable<br />
urban transport on the web and in recent<br />
years it’s become even better. I wish ELTIS<br />
many happy returns on its tenth birthday,<br />
and hope it will be around on the European<br />
transport scene for many<br />
years to come.<br />
Nazan Aybanu Kocak<br />
Senior Consultant,<br />
MVA Consultancy, UK<br />
Over the years, ELTIS has established<br />
itself as a reference on urban transport<br />
and mobility.<br />
ELTIS information gateway is necessary<br />
to achieve the European Vision of<br />
a new culture for urban mobility in the<br />
coming years.<br />
Polis is proud to have<br />
contributed to ELTIS<br />
Sylvain Haon<br />
Executive Director - POLIS<br />
Fostering sustainable mobility ranks among the big<br />
challenges of our society. The ELTIS portal is an<br />
excellent tool for bringing successful experiences<br />
closer to those ones who are concerned about their<br />
mobility habits, as well as those ones who are deciding<br />
on transport planning and management. The<br />
European Commission’s Intelligent Energy Europe<br />
programme uses extensively the portal and contributes<br />
lessons of experiences through its STEER<br />
projects. Best compliments on the <strong>10</strong>th anniversary!<br />
Bernd Decker<br />
Project Officer<br />
Executive Agency for Competitiveness and<br />
Innovation (EACI) - Brussels<br />
Our daily practice clearly shows:<br />
effective and durable transport planning solutions<br />
are increasingly based on a learning from excellent<br />
examples elsewhere.<br />
Our efforts to continuously improve our regional<br />
transport system are greatly sustained by ELTIS.<br />
The platform has been inspiring us since its outset<br />
and - most important - it has helped establish durable<br />
contact with planning bodies from across the<br />
continent. - My sincere thanks to all who contribute<br />
to ELTIS - we’ll keep on using it!<br />
Wilfried Anreiter<br />
Head of Transport Planning<br />
Canton of Zurich, Switzerland<br />
<strong>Eltis</strong> is financed by European Commission‘s<br />
Directorate General for Energy and Transport