CIVITAS FORUM Conference 2016 – less than two weeks to the start

The annual CIVITAS FORUM Conference is one of the most popular mobility conferences attended by hundreds of mobility professionals each year. This year’s three-days programme will offer collaborative workshops, state-of-the-art presentations and interesting site visits. The city of Gdynia in Poland has been chosen as a host for 2016. The city has been active participant in the CIVITAS programme and is a leader in many sustainable mobility measures in Europe, thus providing interesting and rich environment for the conference theme.

The agenda of the conference, as well as other useful information can be found here.

Polis’ staff will be actively involved in the conference. Here is a list of sessions with Polis’ staff participation, so that you know where you can find us:

Wednesday, 28 September, 15:15 -16:45

Session 1. Achievements in Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in Europe, Moderator: Karen Vancluysen

Thursday, 29 September, 16:00 – 18:00

Workshop 1 - Smart Cities and Communities action clusters on Mobility services and Electromobility, Ivo Cré

Workshop 3 - The European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO) for cities, Presentation on Outcome EAFO City pilot, process, main findings; and moderation, Nicolas Hauw

Friday, 30 September, 09:30 – 11:00

Session 20. Tackling congestion by better investing in more sustainable means of transport. Presentation on Tackling congestion, a joint approach from 3 CIVITAS projects - Bonnie Fenton, CIVITAS FLOW project, Daniela Stoycheva, CIVITAS TRACE project, Peter Jones, CIVITAS CREATE project

Session 21. Energy efficiency in urban mobility. Presentation on Innovative and sustainable solutions for electric freight in urban environments in Europe – the Frevue project, Giacomo Lozzi

In addition to that, there will be two stands where you can meet us and learn more about some projects in which Polis are involved. The CIVITAS Urban Freight projects’ stand with CITYLAB, NOVELOG, SUCCESS and the U-TURN projects and the CIVITAS stand on projects dealing with reducing congestion and the use of conventionally fueled vehicles: TRACE, FLOW, CREATE and EMPOWER.