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Sustainable Mobility in the City of Bratislava
This document summarizes a project to promote sustainable transportation in Bratislava, Slovakia. The project aims to reduce CO2 emissions from road transportation by making private car use less attractive and promoting sustainable modes like public transit, biking, and carpooling. Specific initiatives include implementing new parking fees and enforcement to discourage long-term parking, prioritizing trams at intersections to reduce travel times, building new biking infrastructure, and launching a carpooling program. Lessons learned include the importance of strong local leadership, expertise from external advisors, careful monitoring of implementation, networking across groups, and establishing monitoring systems early.
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- 1. GEF/UNDP PROJECT Sustainable Mobilityin the City of Bratislava RESPONDER conference, Bratislava 21-22 March 2013 Jana Pangrácová, UNDP Tibor Schlosser, City of Bratislava Angel Aparicio, Mid-term Evaluator
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- 3. Reduction of CO2emissions from road transport (GEF Focal area: Climate Change Mitigation) What do we want to achieve?
- 4. What’s the situationin road transport? • transport accounts for 20% of national CO2emissions -> 98% of transport emissions from roads • 5% annual increase in CO2 emissions from motor vehicles • modal split between public and individual transport (2007) 59 : 41 (1993) 75 : 25
- 5. How to achievethe goals? • By making private car use less attractive & by promoting sustainable urban transport modes PARKING Car-pooling / car-sharing Non-Motorized Transport - Biking Tram (Public Transport) Priority
- 6. What do weactually do? • Technical recommendations – implementation guidelines Consensus building • Pilot implementation – co-financing / mobilizing funds – awareness raising through community involvement WEAK (-) STAKEHOLDERS’ INVOLVEMENT (+) STRONG PARKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT NMT (BIKING) CAR SHARING CAR POOL MONITORING MNGMENT MONITORING MAGIBA MoT MoE SHMU MoT MoE UNDP ECB ECB MEPASYS STaRZ POLICE MAGIBA BID & REGION DPB BOROUGHS BOROUGHS MAGIBA ECB
- 7. PARKING – baselinesituation • NOT a traffic management tool but source of income • encouraging the use of private cars “unique” reservations, no time limits • billing and payment system does not discourage long-term parking • no effective enforcement
- 8. Principles & challenges: •aunified system across the whole city (17 boroughs) managed by single entity •income used for “green transport” modes •residential zones, no reserved parking spaces •higher parking fees but paying for actual time •use of ITS solutions for charging and information •transparent, corruption-free and strict enforcement Implementation PARKING – new system
- 9. TRAM PRIORITY Baseline situation:NO tram preference at intersections •Analysis of 2 tram corridors - aim: „The tram stops at stations only“ Pilot projects: •installation of dynamic public transport priority equipment at 2 intersections •implementation of improving measures to shorten the average trip time Implementation The new infrastructure PT tram track projects with control junctions to follow the same philosophy
- 10. BIKING (Non-Motorized Transport) Baselinesituation: •bicycles used for recreational purposes •underdeveloped NMT infrastructure NMT proposals: •unified design standards for biking lanes •support to daily use of bikes •strengthen bikers’/pedestrians’ needs in traffic mgt Pilot projects: •new bike lanes and upgrading of organizational rules Implementation
- 11. Car-pool / Car-share Baselinesituation: NO sharing programs in place Pilot projects: •Car-pool – launched in Jan 2013 (500 users) •Car-share – service operator preparing the business plan + identification of C/S stations Implementation
- 12. • Strategy ofthe City Development Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning 1. Mobility on agglomeration 2. Accessibility in time 3. Sustainability in space 4. Environment friendly 5. Energy saving Create smart traffic/transport conditions Visions of the Future
- 13. Visions of theFuture II Mobility and Accessibility - Tools to be Smart 1.PT preference - decreasing the dynamic traffic on traffic lights junctions, space segregation, .. 2. Development of PT track - connection of tram and rail network in the city - new terminals 3. New strategy in parking policy 4. Non-motorized transport strategy
- 14. Visions of theFuture II Smart management 1.Strategy of space development and the transport as a service on it 2.Priority of the people inside of the city the methodology for the transport space & servise needs the methodology for each kind of transport mode
- 15. Visions of theFuture III Mobility-supportive models & procedures • Transport demand modeling for services and applications • Solutions for integrated traffic planning in real time • Design of open architecture • Smart services for moving the people Analysis & Planning Implementation & Integration Service & Maintenance
- 16. LESSON #1 STRONG LOCALLEADERSHIP LESSON #1 STRONG LOCAL LEADERSHIP • mobilize the existing know-how within the Municipality • align with the mayor’s priorities • be consistent with the “political cycle” • create links to regional and national policies and politics HOW TO BUILD IT?
- 17. LESSON #2 EXTERNAL EXPERTS LESSON#2 EXTERNAL EXPERTS International technical experts have no magic solutions BUT help to move beyond “business as usual” perspectives to fight the local skepticism to facilitate a winning coalition among technical experts and decision makers IF they identify the critical barriers for change and give solutions they adapt their expertise to the local context
- 18. LESSON #3 “GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS….SOWHAT?” LESSON #3 “GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS….SO WHAT?” Urban mobility projects are full of good recommendations which are never implemented The Project manager cannot avoid: • 3 tough questions: Who’s doing what? Who has the money? Which are the rules of the game? •close monitoring of implementation plans and co-financing commitments
- 19. LESSON #4 NETWORKING, NETWORKING,NETWORKING LESSON #4 NETWORKING, NETWORKING, NETWORKING Use the full project’s potential for: •connecting institutions •strengthening local leadership •engaging reluctant stakeholders •empowering local communities Adapt the project governance structure to the project’s networking needs.
- 20. LESSON #4 NETWORKING, NETWORKING,NETWORKING LESSON #4 NETWORKING, NETWORKING, NETWORKING CITIZENS DECISION-MAKERSTECHNICIANS THE SUCCESS TRIANGLE
- 21. LESSON #5 EARL OFMONITORING LESSON #5 EARL OF MONITORING You will: •only assume •get lost in your management •lack a basis for dialogue •be irrelevant for decision-makers IF YOU DON’T RELY ON EARLY MONITORING
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Editor's Notes
- #3 BA Transport project is a nationally implemented GEF/UNDP project. On the highest level, there are 3 project partners: GEF, UNDP and the national Government/MoE The GEF – TF that functions as a Financial mechanism for 4 international conventions: Convention on Biological Diversity; U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification Stockholm Convention on POPs – GEF is currently the largest funder of the new country actions addressing improvement of the global environment. UNDP – UN’s global development network that links and coordinates global and national efforts. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to achieve human development and the MDGs. We work in 4 main areas: Poverty Reduction and Achievement of the MDGs Democratic Governance Crisis Prevention and Recovery Environment and Energy for Sustainable Development UNDP is central to the delivery the MDGs. It has a direct programmatic role on a number of MDGs. Apart form its own programmatic actions, UNDP serves as 1 of 10 GEF Implementing Agencies through which the countries can access GEF funds and supports implementation of those projects but the projects are owned and implemented by national authorities (Ministry of Environment and Energy Center Bratislava).
- #4 The goal of the project is to reduce the CO2 emissions from the road transport sector in Bratislava. The project’s strategy was prepared within the GEF Focal area of Climate Change Mitigation, under the Strategic program of “Promoting Sustainable Innovative Systems for Urban Transport). {GEF funding is available for the activities within the GEF Focal Areas (Biodiversity, Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation, Chemicals, International Waters, Land Degradation, Sustainable Forest Management / REDD +, Ozone Layer Depletion)}
- #5 Transport is the 3rd largest sector in Slovakia that mostly contributes to increased emissions of greenhouse gases (accounts for 20%) and 98% of these emissions come from the ROAD transport. In Bratislava region, there is more than 5% annual increase in CO 2 emissions from motor vehicles Modal split between public and individual transport has changed in favor of individual cars -> which is due to increased car ownership and extra 200,000 commuters each day (BA’s population is 431,000)
- #6 What is our strategy how to achieve the goal of reducing CO2 emissions? We want to reduce the use of private cars for urban trips by making this choice less attractive and at the same time promote green transport modes. The project has 4 main components: PARKING: By adopting and implementing a new on-street parking policy that regulates parking we are trying to make private car use less attractive, more time consuming and more expensive. As a result, the project will also reduce the traffic of cars seeking parking, as parking spaces will not be occupied. On the other hand we strengthen green modes of transport by: TRAM PRIORITY: Implementing priority system for public transport in 2 tram corridor s in order to shorten the average trip time. NMT: Promoting NMT for daily trips, and not only for recreation and building the biking infrastructure. C/S; C/P: By adopting a policy and pilot implementation of car share and car pool programs we aim to divert drivers from driving alone to sharing options.
- #7 In all 4 components, there are 2 main phases: Technical assistance and Pilot implementation, both accompanied by awareness raising. Within each component, feasibility studies have been prepared that consist of verified international practice, implementation guidelines and proposals of the measures to be implemented. By partnering the international experts with the local ones, the project also focuses on building national capacities. The feasibility studies have been prepared within all 4 components and this year we are moving to the implementation phase. Implementation of pilots will take place also in all 4 components. Before moving to the implementation phase, the consensus needs to be built so that all the stakeholders understand and accept what they are expected to do. Numerous stakeholders are involved in the project as illustrated on the picture. Consensus is being reached among the different technical services of the Municipality and between the Municipality and the city boroughs through: Workshops with key stakeholders Information on best practices in other cities
- #10 An integrated PT concept implemented in BA region since March 2013
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