Baltic Urban Sustainable Transport Implementation and Planning

Programme 2000 - 2006 Baltic Sea Region

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

The core objective of the project was to develop solutions for the decoupling of economic and transport growth in 12 Baltic Sea Region cities and their functional urban areas, and to make these solutions available to other cities in BSR and Europe through a transferable tool. The project has focused on strengthening the medium-sized and secondary cities, to enable the cities to become engines for the development of their regions and the BSR. The project has contributed to improving the state of the urban environment, and reducing urban sprawl, traffic and pollution. This has been achieved through improved transport and spatial planning. The Commission Communication on the Thematic Urban Strategy for the Urban Environment identifies the preparation of Sustainable Urban Transport Plans (SUTP) as important cornerstones in decoupling economic growth and transport growth in cities. Such plans help the cities to meet the requirements of the EU Directives on air quality and noise assessment and management, and also contribute to meeting the Kyoto agreement targets. The project aimed at: (1) developing and implementing Peer Review method in the process of SUTP development, (2) developing SUTPs and implementing pilot actions in 12 BSR cities, and (3) improving BSR cities’ capacity base and promoting transnational co-operation on sustainable urban transport planning and implementation. The development of the plans and methods has been supported by cross-sectoral implementation task forces, including transport, environmental and spatial planners, in all participating cities. The developed SUTP model and SUTP Peer Review method have been compiled into a transferable tool (guidebook and web site that can also be ordered as a CD) that will be effectively disseminated.

Achievements (EN):

The BUSTRIP project developed a benchmark for Sustainable Urban Transport and compared the cities performances towards this benchmark through Peer Reviews. The Self-Assessment report and the Peer Review findings formed the basis for each city’s Sustainable Urban Transport Plan developed during the project. Each city also implemented a pilot action to start up the implementation of the plan. Apart from 12 Sustainable Urban Transport Plans and 12 pilot actions conducted, a guidebook for guiding other cities through the process of making an SUTP was produced and published in all project languages. It is available at www.movingsustainably.net The web site will be continuously updated by the lead partner and the SUTP in the cities are implemented and the pilot actions are evaluated (as part of the project) and upscaled if found suitable (after the project duration). One important outcome is the capacity built and the political support established in the cities for implementing Sustainable Urban Transport in the cities. The cities have also taken on a method for integrated planning that they will upscale to other areas of planning.

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Green technologies Multimodal transport Transport and mobility

Partners (17)

Lead Partner: City of Turku, Union of the Baltic Cities, Commission on Environment Secretariat

Address: Tähtitorni Vartiovuori, 207 00 Turku, Finland

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City of Tartu

Name: City of Tartu

Address: 51003 Tartu, Estonia

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Pärnu Linnavalitsus

Name: Pärnu Linnavalitsus

Address: 80098 Pärnu, Estonia

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City of Liepaja

Name: City of Liepaja

Address: 3401 Liepaja, Latvia

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City of Kaunas

Name: City of Kaunas

Address: 44290 Kaunas, Lithuania

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Gmina Miasta Gdyni

Name: Gmina Miasta Gdyni

Address: 81 382 Gdynia, Poland

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City of Turku

Name: City of Turku

Address: 20100 Turku, Finland

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The Kouvola Region, Federation of Municipalities

Name: The Kouvola Region, Federation of Municipalities

Address: 45100 Kouvola, Finland

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City of Örebro

Name: City of Örebro

Address: 70135 Örebro, Sweden

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City of Göteborg, Union of the Baltic Cities, Commission on Transportation

Name: City of Göteborg, Union of the Baltic Cities, Commission on Transportation

Address: 40316 Göteborg, Sweden

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City of Göteborg

Name: City of Göteborg

Address: 40316 Göteborg, Sweden

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City of Vilnius

Name: City of Vilnius

Address: 9601 Vilnius, Lithuania

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Chalmers University of Technology, division for Logistics and Transportation

Name: Chalmers University of Technology, division for Logistics and Transportation

Address: 41658 Göteborg, Sweden

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Sundsvalls Kommun

Name: Sundsvalls Kommun

Address: 851 85 Sundsvall, Sweden

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City of Kristiansand (observer)

Name: City of Kristiansand (observer)

Address: 4604 Kristiansand, Norway

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City of Bremen

Name: City of Bremen

Address: 28195 Bremen, Germany

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City of Kronstadt (observer)

Name: City of Kronstadt (observer)

Address: 197760 Kronstadt, Russia

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Baltic Urban Sustainable Transport Implementation and Planning

Project acronym: BUSTRIP

Project start date: 2005-07-01

Project end date: 2007-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 127 304.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 731 871.00

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Financing programme

2000 - 2006 Baltic Sea Region

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2019-07-08

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

136 / 136 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

3 143 / 3 143 (100%)

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Baltic Urban Sustainable Transport Implementation and Planning

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