NICHES+
New and Innovative Concepts for Helping European Transport Sustainability - Towards Implementation
| Coordinatore | "POLIS - PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES, ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE"
Organization address
city: BRUXELLES contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Belgium [BE] |
| Totale costo | 1˙237˙078 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙237˙078 € |
| Programma | FP7-TRANSPORT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) |
| Code Call | FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CSA-CA |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-05-01 - 2011-04-30 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
"POLIS - PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES, ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE"
Organization address
city: BRUXELLES contact info |
BE (BRUXELLES) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
EUROCITIES ASBL
Organization address
address: Square de Meeus 1 contact info |
BE (BRUXELLES) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
RUPPRECHT CONSULT - FORSCHUNG & BERATUNG GMBH
Organization address
address: CLEVER STRASSE 13-15 contact info |
DE (KOELN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
TRANSMAN Consulting for Transport System Management Ltd
Organization address
address: HERCEGPRIMAS U 10 contact info |
HU (BUDAPEST) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Organization address
address: Kensington Terrace 6 contact info |
UK (NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
Organization address
address: Highfield contact info |
UK (SOUTHAMPTON) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'NICHES aims to network actors engaged in developing innovative urban transport concepts. This proposal relates to the successful previous NICHES project, with similar objectives, but different topics. Both share the mission to stimulate a debate on innovative urban transport between stakeholders from different sectors, to promote the most promising new concepts from their current niche position to a mainstream urban transport application. NICHES will explore innovative urban transport concepts, which are high on the European & local agenda, while also looking into the needs of its potential users and implementers, i.e. concepts to increase accessibility to urban mobility options; concepts to increase the use & efficiency of infrastructure & interchanges; concepts to exploit functionalities of urban traffic management centres; concepts for automated & space efficient transport. These topics add to the work started under NICHES, which already examined a set of innovative concepts and successfully promoted them. NICHES will collect information & encourage networking by gathering urban transport experts in Working Group meetings. Selected concepts will be looked at in terms of their transferability to ensure wider replication. The project will develop policy notes for decision makers, implementation scenarios for selected cities and site visit programmes to promote the concepts. Recommendations for further research on urban transport innovation will be formulated. The project will work directly with cities, developing implementation scenarios for integrating innovative concepts in urban policies and move from the development of innovative mobility solutions to practical implementation. The added value of funding NICHES, which can build on the basis of its predecessor project NICHES, is that a substantial coordination platform for innovative urban transport will continue to expand. Synergies between the 2 projects will help to achieve results in a very efficient way.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
A new, visionary project has built on and furthered the work of an earlier project on transport sustainability. Novel, innovative concepts were placed under the microscope to determine their feasibility for mainstream application.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
The EU-funded project 'New and innovative concepts for helping European transport sustainability - towards implementation' (Niches+) built on the work of the earlier Niches project, focusing on different topics of innovative urban transport. Aiming to engage a cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary range of stakeholders across the EU, this successor initiative worked to promote the most promising new urban transport projects and concepts to a mainstream urban transport application.
Project researchers considered the particular needs and expectations of prospective users and implementers. They worked with local and regional authorities to develop implementation scenarios for introducing innovative concepts to existing policies of urban transport.
To this end, emphasis was placed on four topical themes and corresponding innovative concepts: increased accessibility to urban mobility options, increased use and efficiency of infrastructure and interchanges, exploiting functionalities of urban traffic management centres, and automated and space-efficient transport. A working group of experts was set up in each thematic area to share expertise and facilitate networking activities.
Seven champion cities and innovative concepts were chosen for work on implementation scenarios, which were pegged to address issues related to the actual roll-out of transport measures. The needs and expectations of potential users and implementers were studied, and the transferability of innovative concepts was reviewed. Guidelines for implementers, and research and policy recommendations were also developed.
Such efforts in the area of urban transport have the potential to effect positive change for a better quality of life for residents of Europe's cities.