Donostia – San Sebastián, 15 th May 2009. Donostia – San Sebastián 15 th May 2009 2 City of Graz World Heritage since 1999 European Cultural Capital City.

Donostia – San Sebastián, 15th May 2009

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City of Graz

• World Heritage since 1999• European Cultural Capital City 2003 • Area 127 km²• ~ 254.000 inhabitants (1991: 238.000)

• ~ 121.000 jobs (1991: 134.000)

• District Graz–Umgebung (surroundings)– 131.000 inhabitants (1991: 118.000)

– 36.000 jobs (1991: 26.000)

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Infrastructure

• Bicycle route network ~ 116 km• Public transport network ~ 392 km

– Tram (6 lines) ~ 49 km– Bus (37 lines) ~ 343 km

• Road network ~ 996 km– Priority roads ~ 194 km– Roads without priority ~ 802 km

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Mobility of the population

• On average every inhabitant makes 3.7 trips per day (2004: 3,7)

• He/she covers 23,5 km on average (2004: 23 km)

• And spends 83 minutes in traffic (2004: 78 min.)

• 0.9 million trips are made every day in Graz (2004: 1.1 mio.)

mobility survey 2008

Ownership of bikes, cars, driving-licenses and PT- tickets

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mobility survey 2008

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Modal Split – mode choice

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Bridging Levels

• Overcoming the Administrative Levels

– Federal Ministries

– Provincial Government

– City Government

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Why Graz?• First pedestrian zone in the 1970s

• City focused on tram

• 1992 first city in Europe withTempo 30/50

• Integrated PT tariff-system since 1994

• First mobility centre in Austria since 1997

• Pioneer in Bio-diesel

• October 2008 candidature

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Mobility ManagementThemes• Mobility Management in Historic

City Centres– Most of them are based on middle age

structures

– Space must be shared by all modes

– MM an effective instrument

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Mobility ManagementThemes• Mobility Management for new

Districts– New districts are growing

– Existing districts are changing

– Chance to establish MM at the begin of development

– MM as permanent process

– How can we guarantee permanence?

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Mobility ManagementThemes• Cross linking of Districts and

Regions– MM only works with an according

infrastructure• Public Transport

• Bike Network

• Pedestrian Areas

• Linking up with a Green Network for walking and cycling

– Networking of the administrative levels

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Mobility ManagementThemes• Mobility Management for all

Generations and Genders– Different needs of the generations,

genders

– Special packages needed• Children

• Teenagers

• Adults

• Working population

• Elder people

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Mobility ManagementThemes• New Forms of Mobility

– Mobility formed our society

– Mobility is our life

• Sustainable and city - friendly mobility is the future – New forms are needed

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ECOMM 2010 - Graz

5th – 7th May 2010Stadthalle Graz

“Moving People –Bridging Spaces”

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Lisa RückerVice Mayor

City of Graz