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SWOMM – Scientific Workshop on Mountain Mobility and Transport. A specific approach to sustainable mobility.
The Scientific Workshop on Mountain Mobility and transport, now counting its fifth edition, has addressed with growing success of the issues regarding mobility in mountain regions, in particular aiming at expanding and deepen the discussion on the subject.
The Alpine region comprises eight countries and its home to 18 million people. Considering their complexity, the Alps must find a delicate balance between economic development and the protection of the environment.
For this reason, besides a population who is particularly sensitive to environmental issues, also local authorities are open in seeking foradvanced measures and solutions aimed at sustainable development.
The SWOMM fits in this context having become a reference point for experts, operators and local, National and International institutions to discuss about mobility and transport in a region that holds some specific features such as the one where the Alpine arc lies.
The sharing of innovative and successful experiences in the field of sustainable mobility is at the base of their implementation also within the mountain context and, with this kind of event, the intention is to let positive energies which have the same objective meet both on a local and a national level.
Among the institutions and the organizations involved in the previous editions, which have all been promoted by the Italian Ministry of the Environment: the European Commission, the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, the United Nations Environment Programme, many research centres, transport companies and representatives of the different levels of Italian and foreign local authorities.
The proceedings of the conference are published and distributed in a capillary way in all the alpine region towards those, for their role and function, are more interested in the issues concerning sustainable mobility. Partner institutions benefit from a broad visibility both in the printed publications and in the various communication and dissemination initiatives of the outcomes of the conference already under way or being prepared (press campaign, presentations, communiqués, web sites, newsletters, etc.)
SWOMM 2005
The first edition of the workshop was held in Bolzano in 2005 within the Interreg project IIIB Alpine Space AlpFRail.
Representatives of the public and private sector, beside experts in transports and mobility participated in the workshop by sharing information and experiences regarding the management of cross-border traffic. Based upon the outcomes of the scientific research and of the main infrastructure projects started in the Alpine area and in other mountain regions, the meeting aimed at fostering synergies and exchange of experiences between those who are interested in the sustainable development of transports and mobility in mountain regions.
SWOMM 2006
In agreement with the “Comitato per i Cent’Anni del Sempione” (Committee for the One hundred years of the tunnel of the Sempion), the second edition of the SWOMM took place in Domodossola, as one of the events celebrating the “Cent’Anni del Sempione, 1906-2006″.
The event gathered experts and administrators in the field of local, national and international transports coming from all the countries of the Alpine arc who discussed during a round table session the issues concerning sustainable mobility and transport in mountain regions on the base of the proceedings of the SWOMM 2005.
SWOMM 2007
The third edition of the SWOMM was held in December 2007 in Trieste, at the same time of the meeting of the Working Group on Transport of the Carpathian Convention and the midterm conference of the Alpcheck project.
In this third edition the main theme of the workshop was cross-border traffic from East to West and the possible future scenarios. The analysis considered the important influence that new infrastructure might have and the development of the so-called “sea highways”. During the meeting, participants discussed the possibility of transferring the positive experience gained through of the AlpCheck database in the Alpine area and the related system of analysis also towards other mountain regions other than the Alps.
SWOMM 2008
The 2008 edition of the SWOMM took place in Bolzano in December 2008. Representatives of International, national and local institutions from countries of the Alpine arc gathered to present the first results of the study carried out in the CADSES – Carpathians project concerning transports in the Carpathian region.
The main theme of the 2008 event, given also the activities of the Working Group on Transports of the Alpine Convention, was urban mobility in the mountain regions. The experts who have participated in the workshop have discussed of the experience of sustainable mobility in the urban areas of the Alps and the Carpathians aiming at fostering, on the basis of previous projects and of solutions already adopted in specific territories, new methods and solutions for a sustainable mobility in mountain regions.
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