SWOMM 2009 HIGHILIGHTS
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SWOMM 2009
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries – Web based course by UNITAR and GTZ
An 18-week on line course on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries will be held from 4 October 2010 to 18 March 2011, based on material jointly developed by UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) and GTZ . Urban transport planning in developing cities is nowadays a key political and technical issue, requiring... »
Finland plans to build the first green highway
Finland has recently unveiled the plan to build the world’s first “green highway”, which would be endowed with electric charge stations and pumps filled with local biofuels. In charge of the project is the town of Loviisa, at the east of Helsinki. The highway, intended to be carbon neutral, thanks to these facilities would hopefully... »
Google Launches Open Spot, an App to Help You Find Open Parking
Google has launched Open Spot, a new app aimed at helping “driving users” to find and share parking spots. How does it work? It is very easy: users update a map when they are leaving their parking spots, thus enabling other drivers who are looking for a parking spot in the same area to quickly... »
Joint Session of the TRANSITECTS & AlpCheck 2 Projects Meetings
The Joint Session of the TRANSITECTS & AlpCheck 2 Projects Meetings was held on 13 July 2010 at FAO Headquarters in Rome. It included an introductory speech by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat’s Coordinator, Mr. Douglas McGuire. The Joint Session was organized to coincide with the partners’ meetings of the two projects related to the European... »
Mr. McGuire, Sustainable Mobility in Mountain Areas – 13 July 2010
On 13 July 2010, the Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Mr. Douglas McGuire will give a speech at 12:45 on “Sustainable Mobility in Mountain Areas”, at FAO Headquarters in Rome. The speech will introduce the Joint Session of the Partners Meetings of two European projects, TRANSITECTS and AlpCheck2. Both the projects address transport issues and... »
East Forum 2010 focusing on sustainability – Rome, 8 July 2010
SWOMM’s main scope is to foster the sharing of scientific knowledge and relevant experiences as well as creating partnerships among institutions and companies which may be involved at different levels in the development of sustainable mountain mobility. With this regard, we thereby signal the 5th edition of East Forum 2010,... »
A vision for electric mobility – some outcomes from a fruitful discussion in Milan
Representatives from national and local institutions, operators and associations from the automotive sector, as well as citizens took part in the Conference “Una scossa alla città”, organized by the Magazine “Espansione” at the Piccolo Teatro of Milan on 30 June 2010. The event focused on the perspective market for electric cars, addressing in particular... »
ICSS 2010 – International Conference on Sustainability Science
Everybody who is involved in sustainability might be awaer of it. On 23-24-25 June 2010 the Interuniversity Research Centre on Sustainable Development (CIRPS) of the Sapienza University of Rome will host the ICSS 2010 Conference. The international financial instability, climate change, geo-politic relations are getting worse, highlight the unsustainability of the predominant development model, and... »
Can high-speed rail help develop sustainable travel?
Ralph Smith, senior transport campaigner in the Campaign to Protect Rural England, gave an affermative answer to the question. On the occasion of the British government plans for building a high-speed rail network, he dealt with the issue of how to improve the sustainability of transports across England. In fact the British transport secretary Andrew Adonis... »
Fostering the institutional cooperation between Balkan countries structures and Member States in transports
The SEETAC (South East European Transport Axis Cooperation) project was officially approved in April 2009 and will last until March 2012. The project is funded under the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme and it involves 17 partners – Ministries for Transport and Infrastructure of Austria, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Croatia, former... »