Subject: The transport sector remains a challenge for Europe, which has not succeeded in putting a homogeneous transport policy in place between Member States. This is why today only a voluntarist supranational policy will be able to meet these environmental challenges by offering a European sustainable mobility policy, as an efficient alternative to the establishment of an internal market.
Author: Terra Nova Foundation in partnership with Euros du Village
Date: 19th May 2010
Subject: This guide is a result of various experts’ contemplations when they gathered for the Regional Seminar on Urban Transportation in the Mediterranean Region organised by CODATU and the World Bank Skhirat, Morocco. Like all metropolises, cities in the Southern Mediterranean are today facing both growing demand for mobility and considerable requirements for transport infrastructure. Based on an analysis of current transport organisation in Mediterranean capitals, this guide takes the form of a genuine decision-making tool for the development of an efficient, viable and sustainable public transport network, based, in particular, on increased capacity.
Author: Carried out under the supervision of Xavier GODARD, from INRETS (Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité – National Institute for Research into Transport and Safety) and CODATU expert (Co-operation for Urban Mobility in the Developing World).
Date: January 2008
Subject: The number of self-service bicycle offerings has increased since 2005. While their global annual cost represents €100m (£85m), there are many advantages to these self-service bicycle systems: benefits for the user, public transport decongestion and environmental advantages. This solution is increasingly used and has allowed the bicycle to be promoted, on a permanent basis, as a favoured means of transport among the French population.
Author: Commissariat général au développement durable (CGDD) – the Commissioner-General’s Office for Sustainable Development
Date: 6th May 2010
Subject: This report closely analyses the different renewable energy sources and their potential in terms of European production between now and 2050. Be it solar, hydraulic, thermic or agricultural, the use of renewable energies has many social, economic and environmental advantages. The European Union could thus produce 100% of its energy consumption through renewable energies by 2050.
Authors: European Renewable Energy Council
Date: April 2010
Subject: With one vehicle for less than two inhabitants, the city of Brussels has one of the highest motorization rates in Europe. This article attempts to understand what determines train and car users’ choice of transport and analyses the role that prices play. Over the past decade, several Belgian cities have been experimenting with ‘free’ public transport. Nevertheless, today, only a genuine mobility policy, one that makes public transport attractive, will enable permanent change in how and which transport is used.
Autor: Astrid De Witte, research associate and Cathy Macharis, professor at the Flemish University of Brussels – Brussels Studies n°37
Date: 19 april 2010
Subject: This White Paper on electric vehicles results from working parties, organised over more than 6 months, of around twenty company representatives from different industry sectors on the theme «Electric Vehicles and Businesses». Businesses are presented as privileged players in the rollout of the electric vehicle, whose role must be integrated into the national plan for the development of electric cars.
Author : Observatoire du Véhicule d'Entreprise (OVE) - French Research Institute for Business Vehicles
Date: 24th March 2010
Subject: This report stands as a roadmap for the development of the electric and/or hybrid car. It recommends collaboration between governments and industrial players, and puts forward a global strategy for the electric vehicle that draws upon interventionist public policies and technological breakthroughs in order to adapt the EV to the requirements of the general public.
Author: International Energy Agency’s Directorate of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology (SPT).
Date: 2009
Subject: This educational booklet on sustainable transport, published for Sustainable Development Week, intends to raise citizen awareness of sustainable mobility. It presents, in an easily accessible format, the different means of transport available to people for getting around and explains ways of calculating one’s carbon footprint.
Author: GART (a French association of transport authorities)
Date: April 2010
Subject: This report analyses the potential deployment of a European electric market by 2020 in two parts: the environmental impact of the electrification of the transport sector and the energy policies recommended in order to reduce CO2 emissions. Through the elaboration of three scenarios, it demonstrates that the development of the electric vehicle could be a genuine opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions, if its commercial development is accompanied by a policy in favour of renewable energy.
Author: This report was carried out by the consultant CE Delft, and commissioned by Greenpeace, Transport & Environment (T&E) and Friends of the Earth Europe
Date: February 2010
