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We are very excited to announce that Polis member Barcelona has won the first ever Covenant Cities in the Spotlight awards among large-sized city signatories. Congratulations!

Polis is pleased to be associated with the 2018 forum of the European ITS Platform, an ITS platform for national road authorities and stakeholders. Polis will be represented at the forum by the province of Utrecht at both political and officer level.

The MAVEN project invites you to joint its workshop in Greenwich (London) on 24 October about how increasing vehicle automation may affect urban traffic management. Local authorities are the main target group of this workshop; however, it is also open to other urban transport stakeholders with an interest in CCAV.

On 17 September 2018, the new H2020 Park4SUMP project kicked off in Umeå, (Sweden), two days before the 2018 CIVITAS forum. The project aims to integrate high quality parking management into Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) policies.

The Polis Working Group on road safety and the International Transport Forum's Safer City Street initiative organise a joint workshop on 20-21 November 2018. The event will take place in London (20 Nov.) and Manchester (21 Nov). Registration is now open, draft agenda available.

POLIS and ALICE members will meet on 21 Nov 2018 in Manchester, 11:00-13:00 (day prior to Polis Conference) to discuss and hopefully agree to establish a permanent public-private strategic dialogue to pave the way and speed up the transition to CO2-free city logistics by 2030. Members' views on key priorities for discussion are requested.

Under the banner, “Fulfilling ITS promises”, the congress aims to show what ITS can do and how we can move forward to fully exploit the potential of smart mobility in modern day Europe. The call for contributions and for demonstrations are open for the Congress, which is taking place in the Brainport region from 3-6 June 2019.

Polis member Sustrans has contributed to the “Transport Fit for Future Generations” report issued by the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales (U.K.).

The International Road Transport Union organize a forum on structural changes in taxi services. The event will take place in Cologne on the 2nd November 2018 within the framework of the European Taxi Fair. Registration is open here.

“TUCTE 18: Towards user-centric transport in Europe - enabling seameless and sustainable mobility for all” is the final public event of the Mobility4EU CSA H2020 project and it will take place in Blue Point venues in Brussels.