Following an EU China partnership agreement on urbanisation, a group of high level officials from China visited Brussels in June 2015. I presented a key note on Urban mobility planning practices in Europe.
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Recommendations to China (1)
• Strategic Approach towards Sustainable Urban
Mobility Planning will have long-term benefits
• Reduction of (increasing) car-dependance
• Public Transport and non-motorised modes as backbone for
the urban transport system
• Focus on Transit Oriented Development
• Clean & energy efficient urban mobility
• Planning for people and not for vehicles
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Recommendations to China (2)
• Set-up a Chinese Platform on Sustainable Urban
Mobility
• Best practice exchange & capacity building for urban mobility
measures
• Development of planning tools adapted to the Chinese
context
• Innovation / Living laboratory to continue experiments with
new mobility measures
• Multi-level & multi-stakeholder cooperation across China
• Cooperation with Europe