Sustainable mobility awards for Malmö and Brussels

The European Commission has announced the winners of the 2016 European sustainable urban mobility awards at a ceremony held in Brussels. Malmö, Sweden won the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Award 2016 for its long-term focus on active transport modes such as cycling and walking, while the fifth Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning was presented to Brussels, Belgium for its successful freight strategy. Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, receives the award for its efforts in promoting active travel
March 21, 2017 Read time: 2 mins
The 1690 European Commission has announced the winners of the 2016 European sustainable urban mobility awards at a ceremony held in Brussels.

Malmö, Sweden won the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Award 2016 for its long-term focus on active transport modes such as cycling and walking, while the fifth Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning was presented to Brussels, Belgium for its successful freight strategy.

Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, receives the award for its efforts in promoting active travel and prioritising pedestrians and cyclists. It has also implemented a series of permanent measures such as turning a major shopping street into a car-free zone, making its city centre safer and more attractive to local residents; and has set up a new bike-sharing system offering 500 bicycles at 50 stations.

Lisbon, Portugal and Skopje, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were the two other finalists for the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Award 2016.

Brussels, city-region and home to 1.18 million people, succeeded in developing a strategic plan for freight transport that is well integrated within the passenger mobility strategy. The jury appreciated its innovative approach in identifying problems, finding opportunities and selecting the most relevant measures. Brussels supports private sector initiatives for improved urban logistics, and consolidation efforts, including the use of consolidation centres, to increase efficiency and reduce the number of freight kilometres in the city.

The other finalists were Budapest, Hungary and Stockholm, Sweden.
Urban Traffic Control Air Quality & Weather Systems

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Multi-operator, multi-mode integrated travel information
    February 1, 2012
    David Crawford looks forward to the completion of Stockholm's JustNu project. End-2010 is the target date for delivery of the final stages of Stockholm public transport authority (PTA) Stockholms Lokaltrafik (SL)'s ambitious JustNu (Right Now) integrated travel information system. Installation began in 2004, and the result will represent a large-scale and highly exportable solution to the need for harmonisation of traveller information in urban regions with multiple transport operators.
    Read More
  • Mexico City seeks solutions to improve air quality
    December 6, 2017
    David Crawford ponders prospects for one of the world’s most congested and polluted cities. In 1992, the United Nations named Mexico City as the world’s most polluted urban centre. In the first half of 2016, following the updating of pollution alert limits to meet international standards, Mexico recorded 115 days where ozone concentrations exceeded the acute exposure health limit.
    Read More
  • European ITS Hall of Fame winners announced
    July 8, 2016
    Winners of the European ITS Hall of Fame Award 2016 have been announced by Ertico-ITS Europe. The Awards are an opportunity to highlight the successes of the most outstanding, ambitious and innovative ITS deployments and to reward the people and organisations most worthy of recognition and praise. The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Professor Eric Sampson, who has had a major impact on ITS development and deployment in his various roles first at the UK Department for Transport, as one of the founders
    Read More
  • Carbon finance delivers critical support to mass transit schemes
    February 2, 2012
    David Crawford investigates carbon finance in transport. World Bank carbon finance grants are delivering critical support to major mass transit deployments in emerging and developing economies. Only recently operative in the transport sector, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, see panel) is designed to generate additional income streams and improve internal rates of return on projects funded from public- and private-sector sources.
    Read More

Highlighted Content