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A vision of car free cities in central and eastern Europe

Raising awareness and promoting innovative approaches to sustainable mobility and road safety

Foreword by the representative of the European Commission
Claude Bochu

Preface

Hanns-Uve Schwedler

Table of contents.... ............................................................................................................................7

Summary... .............................................................................................................................................11

Conclusions - envisaging a road to sustainable urban mobility
Christoph Rau......... ......................................................................................................................................13

Part 1 - Examples of innovative mobility management
and planning forward

Vision of car free cities in central and eastern Europe
Maria Krautzberger.. ....................................................................................................................................25

A European approach to urban travel and car use
Terence Bendixson...... ..................................................................................................................................28

The Green Boulevard in the Belgian city of Hasselt - a sustainable solution
for mobility in urban areas
Jean Vandeputte.... ........................................................................................................................................30

Developing employers' 'green' commuter plans in Nottingham
Jeremy Prince..... ..........................................................................................................................................37

Car Free Cities - network for a new mobility culture
Elisabetta Zanon... ........................................................................................................................................40

Velotaxi in Berlin and at the world exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hannover
Ludger Matuszewski .....................................................................................................................................44

From a car-oriented city to an integrated mobility model
Charles Hales ...............................................................................................................................................47

Land use and transport planning in the city of Cambridge
Peter Studdert........................................................................................................ .......................................51

Traffic regulation and environment on Margaret Island in Budapest
Diana Kiss.............................................................................................................. ......................................53

Part 2 - Sustainable ways to urban mobility

Sustainable mobility in the city of Odense - the cycling project
Dr. Finn Berggren.............................................................................................. ..........................................58

Safer routes to school - a pilot project in the city of Sunderland
Amelia Forrester................................................................................................. ..........................................61

Children, adolescents and traffic - new ways of teaching mobility
Gunter Bleyer....................................................................................................... .........................................67

How to promote and secure walking - the ADONIS project
Belinda la Cour Lund................................................................................... ................................................72

Cycling in Warsaw
Aleksander Buczynski, Konrad Dydek and Zuzanna Iskierka........... ...........................................................75

Promoting European Car Free Day 2000 in Hamburg
Dirka Grießhaber.............................................................................. ...........................................................80

Car-free and carefree - on 22 September 2001 also in Berlin
Michael Cramer................................................................................... .........................................................83

Part 3 - Traffic and transport in selected central and eastern
European cities

City of Belgrade
Mirko Radovanac..........................................................................................................................................89

City of Ljubljana
Alenka Pavlin and Samo Kuscer.......................................................... .........................................................91

City of Poznan
Janusz Gorczyca and Iwona Ludwiczak.......................................................................................................93

City of Tartu
Peep Margus.................................................................................................................................................95

City of Wroclaw
Aureliusz Miklaszewski and Krystyna Haladyn.......................................... ..................................................96

Part 4 - Promotion of and approaches to sustainable urban transport

Activities in the Slovakian city of Košice to promote cycling and the European Car Free Day
Gejza Legen and Karol Labaš...................................................................... ................................................98

Furthering awareness for local public passenger transport in Wroclaw
Krystyna Haladyn, Aureliusz Miklaszewski and Marian Skutnik............ ..................................................101

Campaigning for a clean and healthy Vilnius
Danguolé Vaitkiené................................................. ...................................................................................104

Promoting sustainable travel and transport in Budapest
András Lukács.......................................................... ..................................................................................108

Part 5 - The European Car Free Day in central and eastern Europe
in 2000 and 2001

Experiencing the European Car-Free Day on 22 and 24 September 2000 in Hamburg
and Berlin - impacts and prospects for 2001 in Hungary
Mihaly Berndt.................................................................. ...........................................................................112

Car free days in Hamburg and Berlin 21 to 24 September 2000
Marina Bors.......................... .....................................................................................................................115

Study visit to Hamburg and Berlin
Elzbieta Karczewska.. .................................................................................................................................117

European Car Free Day 2000 - a study visit to the city of Palermo
Jan Sarak .......................................................................................... .........................................................119

Experience on the European Car Free Day 2000 in the city of Košice
Gejza Legen and Karol Labaš.................................. ..................................................................................121

The 2000 European Car Free Day in the city of Szeged - the first Hungarian city
to officially participate
Miklos Mohl.. .......................................................................................................................................124

European Car Free Day on September 2000 in the city of Bialystok and
preparations for 2001
Monika Syczewska and Elzbieta Karczewska........... ..................................................................................127

Part 6 - European and national coordination of the Car Free Day -proceedings

Contributions made by

Friedemann Kunst......................................................................................................................................132

Christophe Fréring.....................................................................................................................................133

Cristina Garrett ..........................................................................................................................................135

Imre Meszaros and Antal Szvetnik. ............................................................................................................136

Edmund Flößer...................................................... .....................................................................................137

Mirko Radovanac.............. .........................................................................................................................139

Simona Fumagalli.................... ..................................................................................................................142

Mirijana Petir.......................... ...................................................................................................................143

Carlos López-López....................................................................................................................................143

Dragica Bratanič........................................................................................................................................144

Elena Farca................................................................................................................................................146

Jens Peter Koopmann.................................................................................................................................146

Jean-Pierre Vallar......................................................................................................................................148

Silvia Gaggi................................................................................................................................................149

Robert Smith...............................................................................................................................................150

Appendix

Opening addresses in May 2001

László Bartha.. ...........................................................................................................................................153

Csaba Csapodi ...........................................................................................................................................155

Dusan Mladenovic......... .............................................................................................................................157

List of participants....... ...............................................................................................................................158

 

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