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Aalborg

The city of Aalborg is the main city of the North Jutland region in northern Denmark. The population of the city itself is approximately 130 000, which rises to around 200 000 for the whole of the Aal...

Aarhus

With a population of 320,000, Aarhus is Denmark's second-largest city and the fastest-growing in the country. In the past ten years, the city has received 15,000 new residents and created 20,000 new j...

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, with an urban population of 1,209,419 and a metropolitan population of 2,158,592. The city is in the province of North Holland in the west...

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Arad

Arad is the main Western gateway of Romania. Located on one of the main Pan-European road and rail corridors, the city of Arad is one of the most prosperous and dynamic Romanian cities, gifted with a...

Arnhem Nijmegen

The Arnhem Nijmegen City Region is a vast metropolitan area in the east of the Netherlands. Consisting of 19 municipalities, its aim is to promote regional cooperation in close cooperation with its tr...

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is home of Daimler, Porsche and Audi car manufacturing as well as sustainability pioneer cities such as Freiburg and Heidelberg. The government has been aiming for a few years to pa...

Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and the most populous city of Catalonia, and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,621,537, climbing to 4,200,000 for the metropolitan area. The main transp...

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany, and is one of the sixteen states of Germany. It has a population of 3.4 million people, and is Germany's largest city. Berlin's urban transport development plan...

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Bilbao

Bilbao is the capital of the Bizkaia province in the Basque Country (Spain) and could be considered as the industrial and financial capital of the Basque Country. It is located right in the heart of G...

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Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains. It is home to the oldest university in the world, the...

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Breda University of Applied Sciences

Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) is an international higher education institution with about 7,700 students from over 60 countries, situated in the south of the Netherlands. BUas offers pro...

Bruges

Bruges is the third biggest city in the Flanders region of Belgium and located near the sea. Its main economic activities are linked to its harbour and tourism. With a 42% modal split, bicycles are th...

Brussels

The Brussels Capital Region is responsible for the main roads in the city, but many local roads–classified essentially as those of a ‘residential’ nature (and accounting for 75% of all roads) �...

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Budapest

Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, is facing a series of challenges in the field of transport and mobility: an increasing number of cars, lack of high-capacity roads which make it possible to avoi...

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Catalonia

Catalonia is implementing the new bus rapid transit system (BRT) ‘exprés. cat’. With 40 new bus lines with high levels of service (BHLS) the region is to radically improve its interurban public t...

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Centre for Research and Technology Hellas – CERTH

The Hellenic Institute of Transport (H.I.T.) is part of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) which is a non-profit organization that directly reports to the General Secretariat for Re...

Cerema

Cerema is the major public agency for developing and capitalising on public expertise in the fields of planning, regional cohesion, and ecological and energy transition. It offers unique state-of-the-...

Cork

Cork City Council http://www.corkcity.ie/ Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork. Cork has a population of approx...

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CROW

CROW is the knowledge platform for transport, infrastructure and public space. It is a not-for-profit organization in which the government and business work together in pursuit of their common interes...

Czestochowa

Czestochowa is located by the Trans-European north-south and west-east transport corridors. The city is the capital of the northern Subregion of Silesian Voivodeship. The past 10 years have seen incre...

Donostia-San Sebastian

The city of Donostia-San Sebastián (population 185,685) is located in the Basque Country on the north coast of Spain, 20 km from the French border. The metropolitan area has around 400,000 inhabitant...

Dresden

Dresden, the capital of the German Free State of Saxony, has a population of more than half a million inhabitants. The city covers an area of 328.31 km2 (4th largest after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne)...

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Dublin (NTA)

The National Transport Authority (NTA) is a statutory body established by the Minister for Transport on 1 December 2009. At a national level, the NTA has responsibility for securing the provision o...

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Eindhoven

Public transport in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) is well organised. From Eindhoven Central station, it is possible to reach Amsterdam or The Hague in less than two hours. City and regional buses are al...

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Emmen

The municipality of Emmen is located in the north-eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Province of Drenthe. Emmen includes the city, thirteen smaller towns/villages and counts about 110,000 inhabit...

Flanders

The Flemish region (Flanders) is the Dutch-speaking, northern part of Belgium. With a population of approximately 6 million, and a surface area of about 13,500 km² it is one of the most dense regions...

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FrankfurtRheinMain Region

Geographically, it is at the very centre of Europe: the FrankfurtRheinMain Region. Germany’s traditional heart of finance and trading is not only one of the most dynamic and innovative regions in th...

Gelderland

The Province of Gelderland is situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in between the Randstad Holland with its mainports and the Rhine Ruhr Area in Germany. As part of two European core net...

Ghent

Sustainable urban mobility planning in Ghent: part 2 of the Eltis SUMP video (www.eltis.org) Ghent is involved in EU project CHALLENGE....

Glasgow

As the main population and employment centre in the west of Scotland, Glasgow requires to service the mobility needs of almost 1.8 million residents and commuters from its surrounding catchment. In...

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg is Sweden’s second largest city with 500 000 inhabitants. As the biggest port in the Nordic Region, Gothenburg is by tradition a centre for trade, transport and industry but also for tour...

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Groningen

Groningen is the largest municipality and economic engine of the Northern Netherlands. With more than 230,000 inhabitants, 140,000 jobs, 100,000 students en 180,000 people coming from the region every...