Terrassa Frankfurt Jun06

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt Jun-06
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt OBJECTIVES

• To learn how to introduce Sustainable Mobility
  issues at schools and how to manage this type of
  projects (subcontractors or internal staff).
• To learn about the system of community bicycles,
  Call a bike, in order to study its implementation
  in Terrassa.
• Extend our knowledge about the operation and the
  grade of acceptability of Mobility Centres.

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PROGRAMME
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PROGRAMME
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 1
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 2
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 3
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 4
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 5
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
Call a bike

• A very flexible system of bicycle renting
• It is very useful particularly for the 300.000
  people who travel every day to work to Frankfurt
  from neighbouring municipalities

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 6
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
Plans for schools

• The creation of safe itinerary maps
• A permanent commission which analyses dangerous
  points in those itineraries
• Round tables and discussion groups with those
  stakeholders involved on road safety issues at
  schools
• Promote the use of bicycles and public transport
  among 10-year old students Objective Increase
  from an 8 at the present time to a 15 for 2015.

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 7
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
Plans for schools

• Course contents
• How to read and understand the information about
  public transport (maps, schedules),
• To have a better behaviour with the driver, the
  vehicle and the other users when travelling by
  bus
• To improve their driving abilities when using the
  bicycle, also in combination with the public
  transport.

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 8
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
Bike business to promote the use of bicycles
for commuter mobility

• The 9 of commuter trips in Germany are done by
  bike
• Campaign objectives
• Individual benefit health, travelling freedom,
  money savings
• Companies benefits workers health, reduction of
  parking facilities in the interior, modern look
  for the company
• Municipal benefits environmental improvement,
  noise reduction, improvement of road safety and
  cost reduction of infrastructures for vehicles

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 9
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
Bike business

• Actions
• From 1.600 km to 2.000 km in all the region of
  Frankfurt/Rhine-Main.
• Safe parking facilities in the interior of the
  companies
• Itineraries information at all PT stations.
• Communication campaigns in order to improve the
  public perception of cycling.
• Procedure
• Mobility tables

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 10
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
Mobility Centre 300 daily users
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Terrassa ? Frankfurt PICTURES 11
Clean vehicles - Individualised travel marketing
- Mobility education - Policy integration -
Road pricing - Road safety - Travel awarness -
Travel plans
Mobility Centre

• To inform about the transportation alternatives
  bus, train, tramway, car-sharing, velotaxi or
  bicycle
• Ticket purchasing
• Tourist information
• In the future, they will also sell tickets of
  different social events in combination with the
  public transportation ticket to get to the place
  of the event.

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt OUTCOMES

• Interesting pacification measures integrated on
  the street design on the 30 km/h streets.
• The project Bike and business aims to promote the
  use of bicycles for commuter mobility. They have
  increased the current network of 1.600 km of
  itineraries for bicycles, new and safe parking
  facilities for bicycles near the public
  transportation stops. They aim to make this mode
  of transport more fashionable.
• The existence in Frankfurt of a very flexible
  system of bicycle renting (call a bike), may also
  help to increase the use of bicycle specially for
  the 300.000 people who travel every day to work
  to Frankfurt from neighbouring municipalities.
• Frankfurt has a Mobil centre where they inform to
  more than 300.000 daily users about different
  means of transport that have in order to travel
  from one point of the city to another (bus,
  tramway, car sharing, velotaxi or bicycle). They
  also allow the user to buy public transport
  tickets, distribute tourist information, and in a
  near future, they will also sell tickets of
  different social events (cinema, theatre,
  concerts) in combination with the public
  transportation ticket to get to the place of the
  event.

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Terrassa ? Frankfurt CSFs

• Motivated teachers convinced of the importance of
  the use of public transport and cycles
• Numeric and brave objectives