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Smartfusion: Smart Urban Freight Solutions is a public-private partnership (PPP) which will build upon the existing urban freight development strategies of three demonstration city-regions: Newcastle, Berlin and the Lombardy region. It will demonstrate smart urban freight solutions in urban-interurban supply chains.

A new European project, targeted at cities and regions, dealing with open standards and specifications in multimodal network management systems and traveller information systems has started recently.

More than 20 cities and regions representing Polis members attended the meeting of the Polis Traffic Efficiency & Mobility Working Group in London. 

A tool to aid decision making on ITS investments has been developed and was presented for the first time at the Polis Traffic Efficiency & Mobility Working Group meeting in London on 12-13 April

The Municipality of Pisa has joined to "Connecting with Waterways: to Choice Capital". The initiative targets greater use of the water courses in transport that cross the cities.

Member in the spotlight, May 2012: SPT, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

Throughout Europe the issue of mobility for elderly and disabled people is a matter of concern. The development of Demand Responsive Transport Services (DRT) is now becoming recognised as a possible solution.

The VENTO research project led by the Polytechnic of Milan on exploting the potential of bicycling between Venice and Turin will unveil its results at conference on May 11 in Milan.

The European Bus System of the Future project will present its findings, prototypes and recommendations in its final event, to take place in Brussels on 15 October.

An additional four hundred police officers will be deployed in the Brussels public transport system to tackle the growing insecurity. This increase of security efforts follows an incident leaving a deadly victim.

The Mobility Toolbox is meant for citizens to inform, inspire and help them prepare a project to re-design their neighborhood towards more sustainable mobility.