Promoting Bike-to-Public-Transport Intermodality
This project is completed. Promoting the intermodality of cycling with public transport in Italy, Hungary and Romania.
Awareness Climate Strategies and Plans Climate-Neutral Mobility
Project info
Hungary, Italy, Romania
10/21 - 11/23
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299,742.28 €
Contact info
Irene Nicotra
- Brasov County Council
- Self-Government Office of Vas County
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly incentivised cycling as a mode of personal transport. While this is a welcome development towards more sustainable mobility patterns, cycling is often not well interconnected with other sustainable public transport modes such as bus and train systems. These deficiencies need to be assessed in order to popularise the usage of environmentally friendly transport modes.
Project
The project partners supported regional and municipal governments of Livorno (Italy), Szombathely (Hungary) and Brasov (Romania) in formulating strategic action plans (SAP). These plans provided the necessary frameworks to strengthen the integration between bike, bus, train and other modes of sustainable transport. Integration measures varied across regions but were all centered around physical connection of cycling and public transit, such as expanding cycle path networks and connecting them to public transit.
Development of the SAPs relied on two elements: first, they gathered learnings from similar, successfully implemented projects, analysed them and explored their potential for being replicated in the target countries. Second, project members consulted with local transport users to ensure that the SAPs were tailored to local needs. The project team regularly conducted round tables for transport users, biking associations, environmental groups, research institutes and transport operators. These round tables ensured constant community involvement and allowed participants to evaluate implementation of the SAPs, suggest changes to policy makers, and share ideas among each other.
The SAPs laid the foundation for truly sustainable transport patterns, thus advancing decarbonisation, reducing air pollution and preserving citizens’ health.
Results
The three partners (Brasov County Council, Livorno Province and Vas County Government Office) of the HINGE project signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) on the establishment of strategic cooperation in October 2023. In the MoI the partners declare their intent to create preferential conditions for the cooperation development in economic, cultural, tourism and mobility fields, capable of benefiting from EU funds.
Last update: October 2024