WHO ARE WE?

COMMERCE Skill Share, Warsaw21st April 2010

Jakub Bojczuk, Senior Travel Plan Officer for SWELTRACSarah Cummings, Transport for London Relationship Manager (Cycle Superhighways)

On behalf of London European Partnership for Transport

The COMMERCE project• COMMERCE - Creating Optimal Mobility

Measures to Enable Reduced Commuter Emissions

• It is a 3 year project

• Funded by Intelligent Energy Europe Programme - STEER 2007 to 2010

COMMERCE PartnersLEPT, London

CRIF, Paris

Studio Metropolitana, Budapest

RATB, Bucarest CCIB, Bucarest

Kaunas Municipality, Kaunas

Plovdiv Municipality, Plovdiv

EPOMM

Commuter Emissions, Congestion and CO2

• Work-related commuter emissions contribute significantly to overall CO2 emissions in the transport sector

• Stress, ill health and loss of productivity are directly connected with congestion

• Congestion is costing the UK and France respectively 1.5% and 1.3% of their GDP every year

• Workplace Travel Planning is an approach to change commuting and travel behaviour and raise awareness on climate change

The COMMERCE objectives• Deliver a strategic approach to the promotion of a

mobility plans in partner cities• Increase the number and improve the quality of Mobility

Plans developed by public and private organisations across Europe.

• Exchange of experiences and expertise between two leader cities (London and Paris) and four learner cities (Bucharest, Budapest, Kaunas and Plovdiv)

Expected ResultsAT THE CITY LEVEL

• Mobility Plan Networks developed in the four learner cities and new Mobility Plans established with local businesses

• Skills developed through exchange of experience and mentoring between leader and learner cities

AT THE EUROPEAN LEVEL

• Development of a set of EU standards for Mobility Plans

• Establishment of a Pan European Workplace Mobility Management Award

• Set up of a European Platform on Workplace Mobility Plans (EPOWT)

Achivements to date

Achivements to date

2 day Mobility Plan Training in London for

New Member State partners

Mobility Plan Awards, ECOMM 2008

A Mobility Plan Platform

www.allinx.eu

Town Centre Mobility Plan in London

COMMERCE has standardised

the support offered to businesses in

London and Paris

COMMERCE Mobility Plan Forums set up

A national specification for Workplace Mobility Plan

in the UK (PAS500)

Conclusions so far• The gap between leader and learner city Mobility Plan progress is vast• A special Mobility Plan award pushed forward the Mobility Plan agenda

locally.• The translation of resources and matierials is very important in order to

reach out to the local level.• Large businesses are generally easier to approach than smaller ones,

and schools should also be considered as workplaces.• 36 month Mobility Plan Programmes offers a realistic timescale from

start to finish and measuring success in terms of modal shift and Co2 reudction.

• The skill share programme offers a good value for money approach.

Objectives for today @ Warsaw• To gather together representatives of strategic transport or

planning authorities, business community, cycling action groups and academics to discuss ways to encourage travel planning in the local area.

• To identify tangible links between mobility management and current transport policies in Warsaw such a s bicycle promotional campaigns.

• To raise awareness of travel plans (mobility plans) as an effective method to tackle congestion, parking problems and environmental

impact of car use amongst local businesses

Achivements to date

Speakers

Sarah CummingsTransport Planning

Geography

Transport for London (TfL) is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London. Its role is to implement the transport strategy and to manage transport services across London

Jakub BojczukTransport Planning

Business Language

SWELTRAC is a proactive transport partnership covering south & west London. Over the past 15 years it has grown to now consist of 10 London Boroughs. Its main functions include travel planning,

station access projects, EV charging points, cycling networks.

Achivements to date

Programme for todayTopic Time

1 Who are we? 10:00

2 What is a travel plan? 10:15

3 Examples of travel plans in London 10:45

4 Area based travel plan network 11:30

5 Technical side of travel planning including surveying 11:50

6 Marketing 12:20

7 One to one meetings 14:00

Achivements to date

Programme for tomorrowTopic Time

7 Development Control 10:00

2 Examples of travel policies in Europe 10:30

3 European projects and new opportunities 10:50

4 Cycle Superhighways 11:40

5 Workshop 12:10

6 The first travel plan in Poland 14:00

7 Cycling revolution in Warsaw 14:30