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7th Framework Programme
Raising citizens awareness and appreciation of
EU research on sustainable transport in the
urban environment
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Urban air pollution induced by traffic in
Kaliningrad is increasing concern

• KALAIR is a LIFE-Third Countries project
  co-funded by EC designed to aid the city in the
  evaluation of abatement strategies for reducing
  air pollution caused by traffic - was implemented
  by ECAT in collaboration with ARIA Technologies
  during years 2007-2008

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Scenarios of transport network development
November 12, 2008

• Scenarios were developed with assistance of
• Transport Department Committee of
  Architecture and Building (City District
  Administration City of Kaliningrad)
• - The Federal Inspection on Traffic Safety in
  Kaliningrad region

• Business as usual
• Construction and renovation of bridges
• Development of city road network and optimization
  of traffic flows
• Improvement of public transport
• Renewal and improvement of the Kaliningrad
  vehicle fleet
• Improvement of fuel quality

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Scenarios of transport network development -
comments

• Construction and reconstruction of roads, bridge
  passages and road interchanges
• Development of electro transport
• Development and improvement of public transport
• Development of the bicycle transport
• Preservation of green plants system

Collection of comments through newspaper
Argumenty I Facty
February 29, 2009
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Objectives

• to raise public awareness on city traffic
• involvement of Kaliningrad citizens into the
  process of solving the problem of overloaded
  roads
• to raise public awareness on environmental
  problems caused by transport
• development of the alternative means of
  transport (bicycles)

Transport problem could be successfully solved
only in a bilateral way authorities and citizens
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Activities

• Organisation of a seminar with participation of
  representatives of local authorities responsible
  for transport policy and ecology, representatives
  of municipal and private transport enterprises,
  representatives of NGOs, working in environmental
  and social fields.
• Inviting of Mass Media representatives on all
  events, putting information before and after
  events on the Administrations web-site,
  dissemination of the reports and other
  information between other municipalities of the
  region and citypartners interested in it.

• Move Together Exhibition outside and
  inside
• the large trade centre Europe located
  in the
• city centre.
• Design and publication of leaflets in
  order to
• attract public attention to the
  transport
• problems of the city and call upon to use
  
• alternative transport.
• City cycle race on the first Sunday of
  September
• under the logo of Move Together project
  and
• coat of arms of Kaliningrad. The
  t-shirts with
• those emblems will be given for
  participants of
• the race. Mass media will be invited.