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Capacity Building Events

30.11.-0001

“Improving Public Transport for a Changing Urban Landscape” The 3rd UPPER&SPINE Webinar

UPPER Project EU teamed up again with sister project SPINE for the 3rd Webinar Series. This time, we focused on 'Improving Public Transport for a Changing Urban Landscape. A privileged catwalk to pres...

30.11.-0001

UPPER, MOVE21 & SCALE-UP webinar on ‘Mobility management around large events’

The joint webinar, organized and registered by Eurocities's Florian Becker and Lucian Zagan, featuring contributions from UPPER Project EU, MOVE21: Zero Emission 21st Century & SCALE-UP Project, f...

30.11.-0001

UPPER&SPINE ”Integrating public transport with active mobility for saving energy in the future”

Transport accounts for 24% of CO2 emissions in the energy sector. To address this situation, the European Green Deal, Sustainable and Smart Mobility, and the New Urban Mobility Framework aim to reduce...

Evaluation Metrics and Methodology

01 Apr 2025

Global protocol for community-scale greenhouse gas inventories

The Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Inventories (GPC) provides a standardised framework for cities to measure and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The GPC adopts two complemen...

Resources

21 Nov 2025

A Small Town with Big Mobility Challenges

Best‑practice description Vallirana (near Barcelona) suffered from infrequent public‑transport services, leaving residents heavily reliant on cars. Shotl redesigned suburban mobility by combining...

18 Nov 2025

Audit and Planning of Lisbon’s Cycling Network

Best‑practice description Lisbon’s cycling network, launched in 2017, has expanded rapidly but has suffered from uneven maintenance and fragmented implementation. To ensure continuity and effec...

30 Sep 2024

CIVITAS ReVeAL Tool: Implementing UVARs for Safer, Greener, and More Livable Cities

The main objective of the tool is to help cities that are considering putting urban vehicle access regulation (UVAR) measures in place. Such measures can help make cities more accessible, safer, quiet...

07 Aug 2024

Clean Bus Report: An Overview of Clean Buses in Europe

Report publishing the results of an investigation into the development of clean bus fleets in Europe and beyond between 2017 and 2022. This report, compiled by the ASSURED project consortium, is based...

27 Oct 2025

Curitiba BRT Modernisation – Integrated Bus Rapid Transit

Curitiba’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, the Rede Integrada de Transporte (RIT), was launched in 1974 and quickly became a benchmark for cost‑effective, high‑capacity public transport. It in...

21 Nov 2025

Eradicating Diesel Buses from Paris’ Public Transport Fleet

Best‑practice description Since 2015 RATP has pursued the Bus2025 strategy, aiming to replace all diesel‑powered buses with low‑emission alternatives by 2025. The programme targets a flee...

25 Apr 2025

GoodGo app for bicycle theft prevention and incentivising sustainable mobility

GoodGo promotes sustainable transport by encouraging users to use eco-friendly modes of transport (bicycles, public transport) and offers bike theft prevention through RFID-based tracking. It rewards...

30 Oct 2024

Integrating Walking + Public Transport

This policy brief: Makes recommendations to “increase walking activity and public transport ridership by creating and promoting safe, accessible and comfortable walkable catchments to and fro...

06 Aug 2024

On the road to a concept for Bus Rapid Transit

This publication aims to serve as a baseline describing the state-of-the-art of (E)Bus Rapid Transit systems around the world, creating a benchmark for the eBRT2030 project. The report examines th...

21 Nov 2025

Optimised Scenarios for Bergen Light Rail Expansion

Best‑practice description The Bergen Light Rail (BLR) upgraded its 20 km single‑line network into a multi‑line system to boost efficiency, ridership, cost‑effectiveness, and sustainability....

11 Mar 2025

Overtaking in Stuttgart: lateral distance between vehicles analysis

In the context of climate change, it is desirable to increase the share of cycling. One way of doing this is to strengthen subjective safety of cyclists. At present, many people perceive cycling as un...

24 Oct 2024

Planning a long-term zero carbon transition pathway

The SUMP-PLUS Policy Brief #1, released in December 2022, addresses the pressing issue of decarbonizing urban transport as part of broader efforts to combat climate change. In the context of the Europ...

25 Apr 2025

Propensity to cycle tool (PCT)

The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) aims to assist transport planners, policymakers, and researchers in identifying where cycling has the greatest potential for growth in urban areas. It allows users t...

19 May 2025

The Clean Vehicles Directive

The Clean Vehicles Directive’s goal is increasing the proportion of low- and zero-emission vehicles in contracts submitted by public entities across the 27 EU member states. The Directive mandates t...

19 May 2025

The New EU Urban Mobility Framework

In 2021, EC DG MOVE published its new European Urban Mobility Framework, which suggests actions to encourage EU institutions and member states to create safe, accessible, inclusive, affordable, smart,...

25 Apr 2025

Wecity app and platform to encourage sustainable mobility choices

Wecity aims to encourage the use of sustainable transport modes (walking, cycling, public transport, carpooling) by rewarding users with credits for each activity that reduces their carbon footprint....