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As part of the Interreg REFORM project, a consortium of seven organisations, located in five different European countries, supports the implementation and deployment of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) as an instrument for shifting mobility towards low-carbon patterns. This project gives particular attention to regions which play a central role to encourage the adoption of SUMPs by local authorities, including small towns and medium-sized cities.

The 2018 edition of Velo-city, the annual global conference on cycling organised by the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF), ended last Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Learn more about the topics discussed on the final day of the conference.

Polis members BKK/Budapest Centre for Transport, Transport for Greater Manchester, city of Aarhus and Transport for London took part in the MaaS conference organised by Fluidtime on 7-8 June in Vienna

The study on “Mapping accessible  transport for persons with reduced mobility”” launched by the European Commission was awarded to the Consortia TIS (PT), Panteia (NL), ITS Leeds (UK) and Armis (PT). Several entities, such as Polis, have supported their application.

On 13 June, SUMPs-Up held a networking breakfast and knowledge exchange with Brussels-based stakeholders to comment on the project’s draft recommendations to local, national and European authorities to improve SUMP take-up. Representatives from the European Commission’s DG REGIO and DG MOVE attended the event and fruitfully contributed to the discussion.

The new PIN report by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) shows that road safety progress in the European Union has stagnated for the last four years. The weekly number of road deaths in the EU is equivalent to two typical passenger airliners crashing and killing everyone on board.

EPA and Polis are hosted by the Czech Parking Association and the marvellous city of Prague for their annual joint workshop. This workshop will take place on 13 September and is followed the day after by a Polis Parking Working Group meeting.

The call has been launched for applications for this year's CIVITAS Awards. Towns and cities have until 13 July 2018 to submit their entries and be in with a chance to win Europe's most prestigious prizes for clean urban transport.

The Smart Society Professional Academy is the result of the cooperation between the Fraunhofer Society and the Eindhoven University of Technology. The programme will be inaugurated next September with two modules, Urban Spaces and Urban Movement, and will lead to a certification of Smart City Manager.

The MAVEN project will run a workshop in Greenwich (London) on 24 October about how increasing vehicle automation may affect urban traffic management. It follows two similar workshops held in Brussels in October 2017 and Barcelona in November 2016.