{"id":11128,"date":"2021-05-25T20:26:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/?p=11128"},"modified":"2021-05-26T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T09:26:48","slug":"new-urban-mobility-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/new-urban-mobility-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"New Urban Mobility Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help the EU build on its 2013 urban mobility package and meet its 2050 climate target, the EU has launched a &#8216;New Urban Mobility Framework&#8217; initiative, which proposes measures to encourage EU countries to develop urban transport systems that are safe, accessible, inclusive, affordable, smart, resilient and emission-free. The initiative also addresses transport pollution and congestion, and draws lessons from COVID-19\u2019s effect on public transport to help with the transition to a climate-neutral economy and emission-free transport at local level.<\/p>\n<p>EPF has provided the following feedback to the Roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>The European Passengers&#8217; Federation EPF welcomes the concerns of the &#8220;New EU urban mobility framework&#8221;. In an overall view, six general guidelines should ensure most value for passengers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Access for all to attractive public transport<\/strong> is vital: getting people out of their cars is essential to reducing expensive congestion, freeing-up scarce urban land-space (from the need to build more roads and to accommodate parked cars), cutting noise levels, carbon emissions and particulate pollution (since non-exhaust road emissions from tyres, brakes, and road dust will still be a problem, even with a shift to e-vehicles).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sticks <\/strong>(like road-user charging) won&#8217;t be sufficient on their own to achieve significant modal shift &#8211; even if they were politically acceptable (gilets jaunes). We need <strong>carrots<\/strong> like attractive, reliable, affordable, high quality and accessible public transport services and vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>The potential of a public transport service is enhanced when it forms an <strong>integrated<\/strong> part of a <strong>network of networks<\/strong> &#8211; timetabling, ticketing, connectivity, etc.<\/li>\n<li>With the new post-pandemic focus on the promotion of <strong>active travel<\/strong> in the interests of public health and environment sustainability, <strong>interchange<\/strong> (e.g. hubs) with public transport services is of particular importance: planned well, their integration facilitates more sustainable &#8216;end-to-end journeys&#8217; over longer-distances.<\/li>\n<li>Good public transport is not an optional add-on in any urban environment. Its provision must be conceived together with the <strong>design of the built environment<\/strong>. Urban mobility and good spatial planning need to go hand-in-hand.<\/li>\n<li>Public transport provision can seem expensive unless one takes an <strong>holistic approach<\/strong> to urban mobility (as we are beginning to do in assessing the public health and environmental benefits of active travel). It needs to be recognised that public transport is a <strong>public good<\/strong>, for which crude market analysis based on a linear understanding of supply and demand is an insufficient tool for the identification of its benefits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help the EU build on its 2013 urban mobility package and meet its 2050 climate target, the EU has launched a &#8216;New Urban Mobility Framework&#8217; initiative, which proposes measures to encourage EU countries to develop urban transport systems that are safe, accessible, inclusive, affordable, smart, resilient and emission-free. The initiative also addresses transport pollution and congestion, and draws lessons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11128\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}