Press Room

The urban mobility network Polis calls for action on active travel and health in a position paper produced following the roundtable discussion on Transport & Health held at the 2011 Annual Polis Conference. The paper stresses the urgency of emphasising the link between transport and health in certain EU policy areas, and the need for more initiatives, including by the EU institutions, to actively promote the health benefits of active travel.

PRESS RELEASE: How to achieve cleaner transport in European cities and regions? The ECOSTARS scheme recognises fleet operators’ efforts to save energy and provides authorities with a method of environmental engagement with fleet operators of HGVs, buses, coaches and vans.

PRESS RELEASE: The bicycle is one of the corner stones in creating sustainable and liveable cities. To meet that challenge, 7 European champion cycling cities have joined forces. They aim to become even better at making the bicycle a key mode of transportation in their cities, while sharing know-how with other cities.

OASIS, a research project partially funded by the European Commission under FP7, promises to revolutionize the interoperability, quality, breadth and usability of services addressed to older persons through ontologies and semantic web services.

Pilot project Co-Cities incorporates travellers’ feedback to existing mobility services to offer better transport information services.

Press release: Good practice selection on public actions in urban freight management to be released. SUGAR entered its last round and is now in its final project year. The project addresses inefficient and ineffective management of urban freight distribution. In its last period a tool on good practices on freight is being developed.

Madrid (ES), Essex (UK), Barcelona (ES), Aalborg (DK) and San Sebastian (ES) are the winners of this year’s OSMOSE Awards for local traffic innovations. The awards are presented to the winners on 7 April in London.

London – International NGO The Climate Group and Polis – who have members that makeup a network of European Cities and Regions – hosted a joint event on 6 April at the offices of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) to discuss how local governments, fleetowners, and the energy and motor industries can work together to grow the European market forelectric vehicles (EVs).

This year's annual conference of the European network POLIS is to be held at the MESSE DRESDEN exhibition centre on 25 and 26 November 2010. Over 200 participants, including guests from Britain, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Russia and other European countries, are expected to attend the international conference: Specialists for mobility, urban and regional transportation, traffic management, goods traffic and road safety from politics, authorities, transport providers, universities and industry.

Polis press release (28/04/2009). Polis welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament of a report on an action plan on urban mobility.