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ABOUT LOW-CARB

LOW-CARB is a transnational project in Central Europe increasing the planning capacities of organisations and city governments to transition to low-carbon mobility and transportation. It is tackling burning issues of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning such as integrating low-carbon mobility measures for users, creating institutional cooperation and fostering joint financing, as well as facilitating Functional Urban Areas with creating action plans that make low-carbon transit and travel a reality. It ran during 2018-2020.

RESULTS

LOW-CARB reduced CO₂ emissions by almost 60 000 tons by 2020 in the Central European Region! Strategies, action plans, tools and innovative pilot actions reflected the main challenges and new trends of clean mass public transport in central European contexts. Such themes included open data-based mobility planning, integrated mobility platforms and implementation of new low-carbon technologies.

Project Activities

WP 1

STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLANS

LOW-CARB played an integral role in the development of sustainable regional low carbon mobility plans for its partner cities in work package 1.

The urban areas of Brno, Koprivnica and Leipzig developed plans for integrated low-carbon public transport services, while Szeged focused on company travel plans. Parma developed an action plan for multipurpose charging infrastructure for public transport e-services.

The project also proposed strategies on:
i) low-carbon mobility planning;
ii) introducing innovative public transport services;
iii) open data-based mobility planning.

WP 2

TRAINING

Two training sessions per partner country was held across Central Europe in local languages as part of work package 2, a well as several transnational events

One in 2018 and another in 2019 on low-carbon mobility planning & innovative mobility offers (including company engagement);
A policy workshop at a significant international location (Dec. 2019) and
An exploitation workshop with financers and multipliers (June 2020).

LOW-CARB also invited ‘follower’ cities via a call to join the project from mid-2019. The six follower cities worked closely with partners via consultations, and recieved training via our webinars to replicate our pilot actions.

WP 3

PILOT ACTIONS

Capitalising on two investment schemes, five pilot actions, each related to multi-modal public transport planning and innovative low-carb technologies:

In Koprivnica, bike- and ride-sharing schemes fueled by solar-powered e-bike charging stations will be integrated into the public transport system;
Leipzig employed multimodal information services to encourage shared mobility int heir action plan.
Szeged, designed and implemented a wifi counting system for passengers
Skawina tested an electric bus feeder service in their public transport.

Experiences were shared at a final conference in November 2020.

WP 3

TOOLS

LOW-CARB developed the following tools:

GIS Monitoring Tool:
A framework for monitoring and evaluation of impacts of low-carbon measures and sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs), tested by the city of Brno
SUMP Self-Assessment Tool:
An innovative instrument that allows regions to self-check the compliance of their regional SUMP processes with EU Guidelines.
SUMP Central:
Online portal of supportive resources, networks, and tools for Central European regions to develop SUMPs and low-carbon measures
Reachie:
Leipzig's isochrone trip planner

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16.09.2020

EVENT

2020 EUROPEAN MOBILITY WEEK

Join us in one of several activities that the following LOW-CARB partnering cities are planning :
Leipzig (DE); Koprivnica (CR); Brno (CZ); and Skawina (PL)
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25.11.2020

EVENT

FINAL CONFERENCE

LOW-CARB hosted its final conference online, where partners showcased their achievements of the past 3 years. The event was attended by rougly 40 external participants and a further 20 consortium members.