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moving sustainablyNewsletter 3, September 2007

www.bustrip-project.net

Don’t miss sustainable transport

Guidebook for planning Sustainable Urban Transport

Project is part-fi nanced by the European Union.

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Tomorrow, today

SUTP Four capital letters can permanently change urban mobility patterns.

By Virpi Kaukavuori and Anna Szary

Urban mobility is a hot topic. Also the European Commission points out that something needs to be done with the current transport patterns in the cities.

After an extensive consultation, the European Commission adopted the Green Paper on Urban Transport in September 2007. It leads the way “towards a new culture for urban mobil-ity”, as the document is titled. At this stage, the Green Paper does not propose concrete policy measures but rather launches further debate among the citizens and stakeholders to share their views with the Commission on possible options for actions. A detailed EU Action Plan on urban mobility will follow in autumn 2008.

Jacques Barrot, the Vice President of the Commission and in charge of transport, welcomed the great interest for Green Paper from the European stakeholders. “The useful input that we have collected helps us to better understand the reality of Europe’s cit-ies and the expectations of citizens and stakeholders. I believe that we now present a well-balanced document”, he said.

The Green Paper presents a set of policy issues for urban mobil-ity and includes twenty fi ve open questions addressing these

options. This thematic has already become familiar also in the BUSTRIP project. How can the quality of public transport be improved? How walking and cycling can be promoted? How to optimise the use of private cars?

The Green Paper sets a European agenda for urban mobility, while respecting the responsibilities of local, regional and national authorities in this fi eld.

“European cities are different but they share similar challenges: congestion, climate change, pollution and safety. The Green Paper will focus European attention on the urban dimension of transport policy and put the spotlights on innovative policies which pioneering cities throughout Europe are putting in place. My purpose is to fi nd out what Europe can do to support those policies”, Vice-President Barrot said.

Get politicians onboard!

In 2004, EU Expert Working Group on Sustainable Urban Trans-port suggested Sustainable Urban Transport Plans, SUTP, as one important tool for making urban transports more sustain-

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Tomorrow, today - SUTP

Contents

SUTP experiences gathered and tools developed

Cities on the move on a long road

Upgrading in Bremen

Involvement is the key in Tartu

Targets set in Pärnu

Pilot actions – a tool for stepwise learning

Inspiring school travel plans in Kaunas

Monitoring air quality in Liepaja

Bicycle parking for pupils in Vilnius

Project Steering Group

Publishing information

Project partners

Contents

able. The importance of SUTP was also stressed in the recent Green Paper consultation input from the BUSTRIP project.

Twelve BUSTRIP partner cities have faced the challenges in practice and developed and tested SUTP as an integrative plan-ning tool. The SUTP process has been found as a benefi cial way of promoting sustainable transport within the municipality and among the stakeholders. Preparing a SUTP is a planning proc-ess that requires integrated methods and new ways of think-ing. It requires not only efforts made on technical matters but also the more complicated aspect, namely citizens – and poli-ticians – commitment.

Political acceptance is the key to put good intentions and speeches into practice. This is also what Peeter Tiks, the exec-utive offi cer in the Estonian Ministry of the Economic Affairs and Communication, believes. “The Estonian government would like to change the way of thinking that private cars are the best mode of transport”, he says.

Peeter Tiks stresses the importance of political commitment and hands-on actions. He gives an example from Tallinn that has started to improve the tramlines. “If we invest in public trans-port lines, it brings more people to use the services and at the same time makes people understand the importance of sustain-able transport”, he says.

Political support is needed already from the beginning of the strategic planning. In Gdynia, the trolleybus lines have experi-enced an actual renaissance after they got more political sup-port, confi rms Marcin Wolek, Chairman of the UBC Commission on Transport, and a member of Gdynia City Council.

Without a doubt, the Green Paper arrives just in time to speed up this kind of sustainable transport processes that have started in many cities around Europe.

Global Challenge

Europe is not alone with the urban transport challenges. Bad air quality, congestion and threat to the competitiveness of the cit-ies have been acknowledged all over the world.

“Ensuring accessibility and mobility in emerging cities is a key concern for most decision-makers, be it in Europe, Asia, Latin America or Africa”, says Armin Wagner from GTZ, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. His organisation works on behalf of German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development together with organ-isations in developing countries to promote sustainable urban mobility.

The SUTP is also a relevant global tool. “However, developing concepts for sustainable transport require both a clear vision and strong cooperation with other partners from the political arena, businesses and civil society groups. Hence, the integrative and guiding approach of SUTP is a good way to achieve sustainable results in emerging cities around the globe”, Wagner says.

Wagner does not only emphasize the SUTP as a tool to improve the state of the environment but also as a prerequisite for a pros-

perous city. “People and decision-makers are increasingly aware of how well developed and sustainable transport systems are shaping the economic, social and environmental future.” This is an argument that no decision-maker can resist.

The BUSTRIP project has developed a guidebook for making Sustainable Urban Transport Plans. It can be adapted not only for European cities to prepare integrated plans leading to sus-tainable urban transports, but also assist cities around the globe. The guidebook gives hands-on guidance on how to involve citi-zens and stakeholders in the SUTP process, and set measurable and relevant targets for improving the urban transports.

The guidebook has a focus on the process but it also impli-cates the need for action. As Anna Granberg, BUSTRIP Project Coordinator puts it: “Our partner cities have found the proc-ess very rewarding. They consider the SUTP as a powerful tool to implement Sustainable Transport, battling also the Climate Change”.

So cities around the globe just do it - SUTP offers tomorrow today!

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SUTP experiences gathered and tools developed

Sustainable Urban

Transport PlanOur city

The preparation and adoption of Sustainable Urban Transport Plan is a process that often requires totally new thinking, coop-eration and integration in the city administration. Thus compre-hensive tools and guidance for the SUTP process are required. The BUSTRIP project produces a SUTP toolbox that is based on the fi ndings and lessons learnt from the project where twelve Baltic Sea Region cities have been preparing SUTPs. The cities will present the achievements of their SUTP processes at the BUSTRIP Final Conference in 7-9 November 2007 in Turku.

SUTP process builds on the existing strengths and opportunities of a city. Integration is the key to SUTP. Some European forerun-ners, especially bigger cities, have integrated land use and trans-port planning with great results. The integration of planning not only has effects on the environment, lowered air quality emis-sions, and lower noise levels, but it also affects people’s lives in

various ways and paves the way for more sustainable urban liv-ing. The concept of the SUTP takes this thinking a step further. The integration is not only about land-use and transport issues, but also about integrating health, education, awareness raising, strategic business development, social issues etc. into the plan-ning of urban mobility.

SUTP calls for the extensive involvement of stakeholders out-side the city administration; NGOs, citizens and business rep-resentatives. It requires close cooperation with the national and regional level to ensure compliance with the higher level strat-egies and plans and to advance the sustainable development of the whole urban area – since mobility does not take account of borders. Furthermore, the SUTP concept acknowledges the importance of inclusion of all groups of society and puts special a focus on the gender aspect.

One fundamental ingredient of a SUTP is the using of a sustain-able city vision as a starting point for the SUTP work. The vision that shows the high-level direction of the plan can serve as a guiding star for the whole process and can be used in the mar-keting of the work. For a successful SUTP the setting of meas-urable and time limited targets is crucial; without these it is not possible to evaluate the plan. To measure and follow-up on the impact of the actions is another crucial part.

The fi nal product of BUSTRIP project, the SUTP toolbox called “Moving Sustainably”, gives tools and guidance for the transport and urban planners. The users will be guided through the differ-ent parts of the SUTP process. The toolbox functions as a com-prehensive guide in making the sustainable transport planning more structured and integrative. The toolbox will be published in the form of a guidebook and a web site in November 2007. The guidebook will be available in English, Lithuanian, Latvian, Esto-nian, Finnish, Swedish, German and Polish. The guidebook can be ordered free of charge from the contact below.

By Anna GranbergBUSTRIP Project [email protected]

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Cities on the move on a long road to sustainable transport

As the BUSTRIP-project moves into its fi nal phase, it’s time to look back and forward to refl ect on how far the BUSTRIP-cities have come on their way towards sustainable urban transport and what still lies ahead.

Has the air quality improved? Do more people cycle? Have con-gestion and parking problems been resolved? Have we become less dependent on oil for transport?

Most probably, the truth for all BUSTRIP-cities is that there is still a long way to go before it can be claimed that urban transport is sustainable. It’s not surprising since unsustainable transport patterns and infrastructure have emerged over decades and are not changed overnight.

However, every BUSTRIP-city has moved a bit in the right direc-tion and has laid a foundation for future work for sustainable transport. Awareness of the challenges and improved cooper-ation between city departments and with stakeholders is a cru-cial aspect of SUTP-work and most cities have made signifi cant progress on these fi elds.

The starting position, political situation and the resources avail-able differ greatly between the cities and every city had to fi nd its own, workable solution for the SUTP-process. By summer 2007 many BUSTRIP cities had fi nished their draft SUTPs, while some are still working on them. In any case, it is impor-tant that cities concentrate on the essentials in their SUTP and address them fi rst – policy coordination, clearly defi ned goals, follow up mechanisms, cooperation between departments and stakeholder involvement. Transforming a city’s transport system is a long process and the SUTP can and should be gradually improved, getting more detailed and setting new, more ambi-tious goals. Given the diffi culty of the challenge, a long term approach and perspective is certainly needed to achieve a sus-tainable transport system!

An experience from the BUSTRIP-project is the importance of political support and understanding in successful SUTP-work. Local politicians should get involved as early as possible in the process and in capacity building to create a better understand-ing and support for the work carried out on the administrative level. Because of the long time-perspective in infrastructure and traffi c pattern changes, a continuity of political support for the main goals of SUTP is essential. It is therefore important to cre-ate broad political support and understanding for SUTP-goals and to ensure that all relevant stakeholders get informed and involved in the process.

BUSTRIP has certainly helped to start SUTP-work in all begin-ner cities and to structure it more clearly in the more advanced cities. The real success of the project will, however, fi rst show in the future – by whether the cities have become more sustaina-ble and pleasant places to live, work and visit!

By Michael Koucky, UBC TransCom, GöteborgCoordinator of SUTP work [email protected]

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is the core point in Bremen SUTP

Upgrading

The mobility patterns in Bremen are comparatively good from a sustainability point of view taking into account that it is a vibrant harbour city characterized by transport, trade and traffi c. The modal-split for the sustainable modes of walking, cycling and Public Transport is about 60%.

Already in the 90s, the philosophy of what nowadays is called “SUTP” has been used in the “Integrative Transport Concept” in Bremen. This concept did not contain pure transport plan-ning, but an integrative approach. The scenario methodology that was used showed the relation between the economic and demographic development on one side and transport on the other side. One key element in relation to spatial development was the question of concentrating traffi c in corridors. The result-ing options allowed drawing conclusions for adequate measures to infl uence the current trends. It also shows the limits of poten-tial actions in transport planning.

The results have led to political decisions e.g. to extend the tram network and to concentrate on certain housing developments in areas with good Public Transport infrastructure. The results have been very important for other development concepts and plans in the city and in the region e.g. for the “Urban Develop-ment Concept”, the “Regional Development Concept”, the “Pub-lic Transport Plan” and the “Action Plan for Air Quality Manage-ment”, which is a politically hot issue in Bremen.

None of these instruments has used the title “Sustainable Urban Transport Plan” although especially the Integrative Transport Concept more or less covers the SUTP philosophy.

The Action Plan for Air Quality Management is another example of SUTP-understanding. It is a cross-sectoral plan and contains not only the Environmental Zone or directly emission-related measures, but also the promotion of cycling and walking, the further development of Car-Sharing, the extension of the tram network etc.

In regard to the SUTP concept and philosophy, it is evident that many municipalities fear the burden of an additional plan and related workload. In fact, it would make no sense to just add another new plan which may not be in line with the other pol-icy areas. In Bremen the focus is, instead, to adjust the existing instruments and policies towards the objectives of sustainable urban development including stakeholder cooperation and citi-zen participation already in the early planning stages.

For a forerunner city like Bremen, Sustainable Urban Transport Planning is, above all, a question of continuous “content man-agement” or upgrading of existing plans and instruments. There is not one recipe for SUTPs in general, but a clear political agree-ment is needed about the objectives of urban development in general. This may need still some further processes to convince decision-makers.

By Michael Glotz-Richter Free Hanseatic City of BremenSenate for Environment, Construction, Transport and European AffairsSenior Project Manager on Sustainable [email protected]

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Involvement is the key – Active SUTP process in Tartu

Targets set in Pärnu

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In Tartu, one of the successes of the SUTP process has been the active stakeholder involvement and the interest for cooperation and capacity building in the fi eld of urban transport and mobil-ity. Positive surprises were how eagerly people have joined the transport and sustainable development related debate initiated by the BUSTRIP project, how much participation there has been in the inter-sectoral SUTP working group and how easily people have accepted the SUTP principles dealing with the inclusion of people, organisations and institutions.The preconditions for the development of SUTP cooperation network existed by the start of the process in Tartu. The earlier working team, Cycling Town Tartu, consisted of cycling activ-ists, specialists, organisations and politicians. There was also a Traffi c Council that united the people working with city traffi c. It was easy to proceed from and expand these teams as they were based on specifi c needs, dealt with sustainable transport and considered modern European values such as the creation of equal opportunities for different social groups, gender and age equality, etc.

Tartu, as well as the whole Estonia, is under rapid economic development. Therefore, it is diffi cult to forecast developments in infrastructure for more than a couple of years. This prob-lem is characteristic of the new EU Member States and casts a somewhat different light on the term “sustainable development” compared with the rest of Europe. However, this is exactly why designing the future of the city must involve cooperation with as many different stakeholders and social groups of the commu-nity as possible. Then, needs can be mapped and the choices that must be made can be analysed together. We believe that such an approach to the issue creates excellent conditions for the sustainable development of Tartu. The BUSTRIP project has made its contribution to this.

By Marek MuisteBUSTRIP City Coordinator in [email protected]

Pärnu is a small resort city depending heavily on seasonal tour-ism. The smallest of the BUSTRIP cities, Pärnu has modifi ed the SUTP concept to meet the needs of a smaller town that has some of the same challenges as the bigger cities, but on different scale.

The main goal in planning sustainable transport in Pärnu is to diminish the use of private cars. Even though air quality is not an issue in Pärnu yet, there are already congestion and parking problems due to excessive cars and the quality of urban envi-ronment is suffering. BUSTRIP has made the town realize the need for a cross-sectoral approach in transport planning, espe-cially the integration of land-use and transport planning. Spe-cialists and stakeholders from various fi elds have been involved in the SUTP process and the cooperation between the munici-pality and different interest groups is growing.

The SUTP process has been a motivator in encouraging the cooperation between the sprawling Pärnu city and the surround-ing municipalities. The leaders of the municipalities have been involved in the preparation process of Pärnu’s SUTP. Coopera-tion needs have been discussed and a common vision for the whole functional urban area has been derived.

Pärnu’s SUTP aims at developing a fair, accessible and attractive public transport system. Another major goal is to improve the currently underdeveloped bicycle policy. A third important goal is to better handle the transport problems related to tourists. Imple-menting clearly targeted measures according to the main goals will hopefully diminish the use of private car in the city.

Participation in BUSTRIP and the activities related to it have been important fi rst steps for Pärnu in developing sustainable urban transport. Although there is a long way to go, the target has been set.

By Grete KukkSenior Specialist of Urban Development, City of Pä[email protected]

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- a tool for stepwise learning

School travel plans (Kaunas)Mobility coaching (Göteborg)Freight delivery concolidation (Örebro)

7. Permanent behaviour

6. Experimental behaviour

Targeted coaching for permanent change

Public transportPublic transport priority (Gdynia)Park and Ride (Sundsvall)High-quality public transport corridor (Kouvola)Public transport travellers information (Pärnu)Cycling and walkingPromoter of cycling and walking (Turku)Cycling at schools (Vilnius)Clean VehiclesSynthetic Diesel (Sundsvall)Enviromental loading point (Bremen)

5. Making a choice

3. Perception of options

4. Evaluation of options

Possibilities to change

Car-free-day (Tartu)Air-quality-management (Liepaja)

1. Awareness of problem

2. AcceptingResponsibility

Citizens’ awareness

Pilot Actions

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Achieving the targets of the SUTP requires a change of transport patterns of citizens and goods. This is neither a quick nor one-step-process. Many targeted actions over a long time address-ing awareness and offering transport alternatives are required. Pilot actions are tools for stepwise learning to implement sus-tainable transport.

With the pilot actions, the BUSTRIP partner cities test innova-tive approaches before they are implemented on larger scale. A central element within these small scale actions is monitor-ing and evaluation of the action’s outcome in order to iden-tify the underlying reasons of successes and failures. The les-sons learnt help to adjust the approach to local conditions and improve the implementation on larger scale. The experiences enable the cities to use this tool in the future to achieve the objectives of their SUTP.

The BUSTRIP pilot actions address all stages of behavioural change (see picture). General awareness raising actions take place in two cities. Tartu organises a ‘car-free-day’ with the goal to raise the citizens’ awareness of unsustainable transport devel-opments in the city. The air-quality measurement in Liepaja eval-uates the infl uence of traffi c on the local air quality.

Improving the attractiveness of alternative transport modes is addressed by several cities in different ways. Public transport related actions are implemented in four cities. The Kouvola Region improves the service level of a high-quality bus corri-dor and Sundsvall improves the integration of private and pub-lic transport by building new Park & Ride facilities. Gdynia prior-itises buses at crossroads to decrease the travel time. It is also the goal in Örebro where new express bus line connects the city centre with the surrounding municipalities. Pärnu aims at improv-ing passenger information.

Walking and cycling is the focus in two cities. The aim of the ‘promoter of cycling and walking’ in Turku is to strengthen these transport modes as viable alternatives to the car. Vilnius focuses on the students’ awareness and builds bike parking facilities at a sample school. Clean vehicles are the spotlight in two cities that aim to reduce the air pollution. In Sundsvall several pub-lic transport buses use synthetic diesel. In Bremen an ‘environ-mental loading point’ offers access to an attractive loading site in the city centre exclusively for EEV and Euro 5 distribution vehi-cles. Changing travel behaviour of a dedicated group is the goal in three cities. Mobility coaching in Göteborg aims at reducing car usage. Kaunas supports students to develop travel plans for their school. Örebro’s work with the shopkeepers in the city centre aims at consolidating their deliveries.

By Sönke BehrendsChalmers University of Technology, GöteborgCoordinator of Pilot Action work [email protected]

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Inspring school travel plans in Kaunas

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STOP I’M WALKING HERE

In Kaunas schoolchildren are the ones implementing a local BUSTRIP pilot action. The initiative for the school travel plan pilot came from the Peer Review recommendations. For Kau-nas the school travel plan pilot is an important step in terms of sustainable development issues, as the city is still learning how to effectively engage with communities in a way that provides a long term, two-way relationship.

In December 2006, Kaunas municipality started working with two schools in the outer suburbs of the city, Šilainai and Viliam-pole. The aim of the pilot is to improve the journey and journey environment for schoolchildren in two suburban schools through a set of practical and achievable recommendations. The results of the school travel plan pilot will be effectively promoted to as wide audience as possibleBased on ‘safe route to schools’ materials provided by a Brit-ish organisation called Sustrans, the pupils have prepared their own versions of qualitative and quantitative questionnaires, dis-tributed them amongst their fellow pupils, and prepared the results into a series of charts, tables and summary informa-tion. They have also taken photographic evidence of the prob-lems in their journey environment to add to their school travel plan fi nal report.The initial response from the pupils involved has been in favour of changing the way they travel in and around the city. The fact that some of the pupils will be featured on a BUSTRIP ‘car-less city’ advertisement on the outside of city trolley buses will at least make their parents sit up and think a little bit more. The pupils have also made a video of their experiences which will hope-fully help to persuade others to positively change their mobil-ity habits.

The School Travel Plan project (STP) helps the implementa-tion and profi le raising of the Kaunas Sustainable Urban Trans-port Plan. It empowers school pupils to understand issues that affect them, and present these issues in a way that produces the desired results and improvements. The project aims to engage other community stakeholders in understanding and taking an interest in urban transport, mobility, and environmental issues.From the municipality side, project coordination has been pre-dominantly by the City Programme Development Division in direct partnership with the local Trolleybus company. Some administrative input came from the Transport Division and some creative input from the Environmental Division.The schoolchildren involved in the project have been fantas-tic! They rose to the challenge almost without management from the project team. They have been genuinely interested in the issue and are interested in continuing to be involved. Part of the continuation of their interest will be realised in the form of an exchange trip with Spyken School in Lund, Sweden in Autumn 2007.

By James McGeeverBUSTRIP City Coordinator in [email protected]

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Bicycle parking for pupils in Vilnius

Monitoring Air Quality in Liepaja

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Air quality management is particularly crucial in cities, like Liepaja, with unsystematic location of industrial, green and resi-dential areas, in order to secure dynamic and sustainable devel-opment. The development of an action plan for improving air quality in Liepaja was initiated in January 2004 by Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian Environment Ltd. in cooperation with the Environmental Department of Liepaja City Council. As part of the planned activities of the Action Plan and considering the current local issues, such as the elaboration of the Traffi c Organization Scheme for the city centre, Liepaja has implemented NO2 mon-itoring together with measurements of traffi c fl ow in the city cen-tre as their BUSTRIP pilot action.

The air quality was monitored in several stages to study the present levels, appraise the possible level of priority substance pollution, and to defi ne areas where residents are exposed to sustained elevated pollution. An initial assessment included the analysis of sulphur dioxide, nitric dioxide, thoracic particles PM10, lead, ozone, benzene and carbon dioxide. Regarding nitric dioxide and thoracic particles PM10, the initial air quality analysis showed potential problems. In the case of nitric dioxide pollution monitoring around arterial streets is recommended prior to the implementation of measures for pollution reduction.

In the pilot action fi ve monitoring facilities were located in the city center and the traffi c fl ow was counted at 45 crossings with different traffi c loads. Within the action, the results of air pollu-tion in relation to the traffi c fl ows and modes will be summarized and modeled. The proposals for city’s transport organisation will then be elaborated to also include an assessment of their imple-mentation effectiveness. The results will be used to further the SUTP process in Liepaja.

By Dace LiepnieceHead of Environmental [email protected]

In Vilnius there is an increasing interest in different non-motor-ised transportation means, like the new “Eurovelo 11” cycling paths. Various events and sociological surveys meant to pro-mote sustainable urban transport and to infl uence the politicians have been organised during the last couple of years. Related themes and project ideas are also embedded in the Lithuania’s legal system, particularly in Lithuania’s long-term transport strat-egy which emphasises the attempts to strengthen the interac-tion among different kinds of transport.

In Vilnius an important target group for awareness raising on sus-tainable transport behaviour are the schoolchildren. The local BUSTRIP pilot action has been chosen to increase bicycle use for travels to and from school. According to the local surveys, one of the main reasons, why children are not bicycling to school from neighbourhoods, is the absence of secured parking. There-fore, Vilnius is taking an initiative to construct such an area near the žuolynas secondary school as their BUSTRIP pilot action. The responsible body for BUSTRIP and this pilot action in Viln-ius is the local Healthy Cities Bureau.

The plan and implementation of the secured bicycle parking places for the žuolynas’ schoolchildren is supported by the Head of the Lazdynai District, the authorities of the school, the schoolchildren and the communities. The pilot action is to dem-onstrate the necessity of similar parking places near the rest of Vilnius secondary schools and to give the children the stimulus to choose bicycles on their way to school. After the implemen-tation of the pilot action Vilnius Healthy Cities Bureau anticipates great support and fi nancial help from the authorities of the Vilnius Municipality and businessmen for the continuation of the idea.

By Danguole VaitkieneDirector of Vilnius Healthy Cities Bureau [email protected]

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BUSTRIP Newsletter 3

PublisherUBC Environment and Sustainable Development SecretariatThe Old Observatory, Vartiovuori, FIN-20700 Turku, FinlandTel: +358 2 262 3201, Fax: +358 2 262 3425

Project contact personsAnna Granberg, Project CoordinatorMob. +358 50 4017 816, [email protected] Saarinen, Project Offi cerMob. +358 44 9075 994, [email protected]

Editorial teamSakari Saarinen, Chief-editor (UBC), Anna Granberg (UBC), Sari Sariola (UBC, layout), Virpi Kaukavuori (UBC, editor)

IllustrationsDrawings - Seppo LeinonenFront page photos: city of Kaunas (big photo), city of Tartu and city of Bremen (small photos) photo p.4&9 Anna Granberg, p. 5 Örebro, p.6 Bremen, p.7 PärnuNewsletter template by ID BBNISBN 978-952-5725-00-01 (nid.), 978-952-5725-01-08 (PDF) Published in September 2007Printed by Painoprisma Oy

BUSTRIP is part-fi nanced by European Union (European Regional Development Fund) within the BSR INTERREG III B Neighbourhood Programme, the Finnish Ministry of Environment and partner cities.This Newsletter refl ects the authors’ views. The European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained in this publication.

The BUSTRIP is part of the UBC Agenda 21 Programme 2004-2009 - Roadmap for Sustainable Baltic Cities.

Project Steering Group

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From left, Sakari Saarinen from UBC EnvCom, Håkan Perslow from UBC TransCom, Anna Granberg from UBC EnvCom, Sönke Behrends from Chalmers University of Technology, Michael Koucky from UBC TransCom, Sofi e Vennersten from UBC TransCom and Maria Lindholm from Chalmers University of Technology, during the Project Steering Group meeting in Göte-borg Archipelago 16 August 2007. On the right the two other members of the Project Steering Group Allen Creedy, UBC EnvCom (down) and Björn Grönholm UBC EnvCom (up).

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Bremen

UBC EnvCom (LP)Anna [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

KouvolaRegionHannu [email protected]

UBC TransComSofi e Vennerstensofi [email protected]åkan [email protected] Michael [email protected]

Chalmers University of TechnologyMaria [email protected]önke [email protected]

GöteborgGunilla [email protected]

BremenMichael [email protected]

GdyniaAlicja [email protected]

LiepajaDace [email protected]

TartuMarek [email protected]

PärnuGrete [email protected]

KaunasJames [email protected]

VilniusDanguole [email protected] [email protected]

SundsvallChrister Tarberg [email protected]

ÖrebroPer [email protected]

Project city partners

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