With over 70% of EU citizens currently living in urban areas, urban mobility has a huge influence on the quality of life that they have. Yet traffic congestion, bad air quality, and inefficient transport systems continue to impact upon lives across the continent.
An approach is required that places citizens' needs first. By improving accessibility to, through and within urban areas and encouraging a shift towards more sustainable modes of transport, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans do exactly this. Both cities and their inhabitants enjoy significant economic and environmental benefits.
As they integrate practices and policies from other sectors, SUMPs also help transport measures correspond with wider urban development plans. Transport then actively contributes to cities' efforts to become more sustainable and liveable. In doing so, SUMPs-Up fulfils its ultimate aim: to improve citizens' quality of life.
This new online database from the CIVITAS SUMPs-Up project brings together up-to-date SUMPs from across Europe and beyond, cities spanning all sizes, and in many languages. To find the plan most relevant to your needs, you can search by country, population, and language. If you want to showcase your SUMP, you also have the option to upload it.
The first SUMP learning activities will take place just before and during the CIVITAS Forum 2017. A national level workshop - held together with CIVITAS PROSPERITY - will take place on 26 September, whilst the first workshop for mobility practitioners is on 28 September. From October 19-20, the first SLP will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, one of the SUMPs-Up partner cities.
The CIVITAS Forum Conference is the annual flagship event of the CIVITAS Forum Network of cities and is a major conference in the field of urban mobility. SUMPs-Up will have a strong presence at the event. It has a stand together with over CIVITAS SUMP projects, and is involved in numerous workshops.
