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The CODECS project is holding a workshop on C-ITS use cases on 26 September 2016 at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam. At this workshop, CODECS will share with you its preliminary findings on use case defin...
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The EBSF_2 Barcelona demonstration team is happy to invite you to its Demonstration Event on Wednesday 14 September, 9am to 13pm, in Barcelona, Spain....
This workshop was organised as part of the CIVITAS thematic group on Clean Vehicles and Fuels. The aim of the group is to promote the exchange on key policies and measures in this area....
This FREVUE-CIVITAS Study Tour will provide details on the implementation of electric freight vehicles and consolidation centres. London, Rotterdam and Copenhagen will present an update on their activ...
The House of the Dutch provinces organises a seminar on smart and clean mobility on Wednesday September 7, 2016. Transport and mobility are great assets in our daily life, but without innovative and w...
The 5th SUMP Award will be officially launched on Monday 5th September 2016. In order to provide local authorities with information and answers to their questions, a webinar will be held on the launch...
The EIP-SCC Sustainable Urban Mobility Action Cluster invites you to join its after summer webinar that will focus on the next steps of the Electro-mobility (EV4SCC) and New Mobility Services Initia...
The strategic aim of CHUMS is simple – to “attract carpoolers, match them and retain them”, to keep the numbers rising, and to develop and transfer this proven practice across Europe! The p...
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In the last two years the EU’s road safety progress has stopped. At the 2016 Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) conference, ETSC will launch its latest annual report explaining why some countries a...
This CIVITAS workshop was held in Rotterdam on 16 and 17 of June. Leading European cities exchanged heir experiences with planning infrastructure roll-out & associated services and on how a business...
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This is cancelled: Polis organises the second meeting of the Regional Public transport working group on the 15th of June in Paris, taking advantage of the Transports Publics exhibition....
The Urban Freight Logistics Thematic Group of CIVITAS and the European Cyclists' Federation are organising with the city of Gothenburg a ‘Cyclelogistics Empowerment Workshop for Cities’ and a Stud...
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The CIVITAS Initiative is running a three-day summer course from 7 - 10 June in the Spanish city of Málaga. The course will look at sustainable urban mobility in the context of quality of life in cit...
After nearly four years of demonstrating fully automated road transport systems in 7 towns and cities across Europe, the CityMobil2 partners would like to share the projects results and their thoughts...
The study tour offers to experience innovations happening in the ‘silicon valley’ of Europe. Local innovators and policy makers will share their experience and practices. This tour is of particula...
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Disability profiles supported in our website
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Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
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Notes, comments, and feedback
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