1. The EU Action on Clean Transport and Urban transport
The EU Action on Clean Transport and Urban transport
Brussels, 1st March 2011
Representation of the City of Vienna
Antonio Tricas Aizpún
Clean Transport, Urban Transport and Intelligent Transport Systems

2. Sustainable Transport
Substitution of oil
Increasing energy efficiency in transport and reducing GHG and other pollutants emissions from transport
Achieving a sustainable urban mobility in cities

3. EU Energy Import
Increasing import dependence

4. Trends in EU Transport Emissions
CO2 emissions remain high
CO2
Pollutants falling
NOx PM

5. EU Key Figures on Urban Areas and Transport
Population in urban areas in the EU around 70% of EU total;
Gross domestic product in urban areas about 85% of EU total;
Urban transport produces 40% of CO2 emissions and 70% of pollutant emissions from road transport;
Two-thirds of road accidents and one-third of road fatalities take place in urban areas;
Every year nearly 100 billion Euros or 1% of EU's GDP are lost due to urban congestion.

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What does the EU do?
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7. The Policy Framework Euro 6: September 2014; Euro VI: January 2013.
Regulation on pollutant emissions Euro 6 (715/2007/CE) amended by (692/2008/CE), Euro VI (595/2009/CE)
Euro 6: September 2014; Euro VI: January 2013.
Regulation on CO2 emissions ( 443/2009/CE)
Cars: 130g/km by 2015; 95g/km by 2020
Light Duty Vehicles: 175 g/km by 2017
Renewable energy Directive (2009/98/EC )
10% share of renewable energy sources in transport fuels by 2020 (double counting for second generation of biofuels and renewable electricity in road transport)
Fuel quality Directive (2009/30/EC)
Reduction of CO2 intensity of fuels by 6 % by Bioethanol up to 10% in petrol and FAME up to 7%in diesel.

8. The Policy Framework
The Directive on the promotion of Clean and Energy efficient vehicles directive (2009/33/EC) aims at a broad market introduction of environmentally-friendly vehicles. It requires the inclusion of energy consumption, CO2 and other pollutant emissions on a life time basis in all purchases of vehicles by public services.
The clean vehicle portal has been set up to support public procurement of vehicles as well as help private users in buying a cleaner and more energy-efficient car

9. Future Transport Fuel report (25 January 2011)
Alternative Fuels are the ultimate solution to decarbonise transport, by gradually substituting the fossil energy sources.
The main options are: biofuels, electricity and hydrogen. Synthetic fuels might also be considered in the framework of this strategy.
The use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and methane could contribute to this objective in the transitional period.

10. Future Transport Fuel Report (25 January 2011)
Road transport: short distanceselectricity ; medium distance  hydrogen and methane, and long distance  biofuels/synthetic fuels, LNG and LPG
Railways: electrified wherever feasible, otherwise biofuels.
Aviation: supplied from biomass derived kerosene.
Waterborne transport : biofuels (all vessels), hydrogen (inland waterways and small boats), LPG (short sea shipping), LNG and nuclear (maritime).

11. Urban Mobility
The Green Paper ‘Towards a new culture for urban mobility’ was adopted on 25 September The stakeholder consultation clarified the added value of action at EU level;
The Action Plan on Urban Mobility, adopted on 30 September 2009, proposes twenty measures to encourage and help local, regional and national authorities in achieving their goals for sustainable urban mobility. The measures are grouped in 6 main themes: .

12. The Action Plan
Promote integrated policies to deal with the complexity of urban transport systems, governance issues and the necessary coherence between different policies in urban areas;
Focus on citizens' needs by promoting reliable travel information and a high level of protection of passenger rights;
Greening urban transport by introducing new, clean vehicle technologies and alternative fuels and promoting smart charging to encourage transport users to change travel behaviour.

13. The Action Plan
Strengthening funding by exploring existing funding opportunities, innovative public-private partnership schemes and possible new funding solutions;
Support sharing experience and knowledge to enable better access to this information and help stakeholders to capitalize on these experiences and on relevant data and statistics.
Optimize urban mobility to encourage effective integration, interoperability and interconnection between different transport networks;

14. BEST in numbers

15. Evaluation of Well-to-Wheel impacts.
BIOGASMAX Project
Production
Distribution
Consumption
organic waste
sewage sludge
landfill gas
energy crops
agriculture/husbandry
filling stations
gas grid
Evaluation of Well-to-Wheel impacts.
captive fleets
Dissemination, public awareness, training, commercial exploitation.

16. Monitoring and Preparation of « Lighthouse projects»
2.3.2 Hydrogen: Research, Development, and Demonstration of Technology Action
HyFLEET:CUTE
ZERO REGIO
HyCHAIN
Zero Regio
H2-MotorFuel
HyLIGHTS –
Monitoring and Preparation of « Lighthouse projects»

17. Electromobility Demonstration Project (Green e motion project)
Part of Green Cars Initiative
Scope: Demonstration and validation of Vehicles (2-wheelers to heavy duty vehicles)
Infrastructure (charging, information transfer)
Standards (charging, information transfer)
EU contribution: 24.4 M€

18. CIVITAS – Developing Tomorrow’s Solutions
The CIVITAS initiative helps cities to achieve a more sustainable, clean and energy efficient urban transport system by implementing, demonstrating and evaluating an ambitious integrated mix of technology and policy based measures;
In order to achieve their objectives, the CIVITAS demonstration cities test a coherent set of measures that are specifically selected to match both local circumstances and the European dimension.

19. Eight CIVITAS Policy Fields
Promoting clean vehicles and alternative fuels;
Promoting high quality and innovative energy-efficient collective passenger transport;
Implementing demand management strategies based upon economic (dis) incentives, regulatory measures;
Influencing travel behaviour and modal choice through mobility management plans, marketing, campaigns;
Developing safe and secure road infrastructures;
Promoting new forms of more energy – efficient vehicle use and ownership;
Enhancing the use of innovative transport telematics systems for traffic management, including GALILEO.

20. CIVITAS – Developing Tomorrow’s Solutions
Since 2002 €180 million have been allocated to 58 demonstration cities over 650 measures;
A new Call for proposals has been launched on 21 September 2010 – deadline 12 April 2011 – budget 18 € million;
The CIVITAS Forum Network currently incorporates 170 cities;
The participation in the CIVITAS Forum allows cities to take advantage from the knowledge generated by the CIVITAS projects.

21. 58 Demonstration Cities

22. The Near Future
Europe 2020 Strategy underlines importance of a modernized and sustainable transport system for the future development of the Union (incl. the urban dimension);
The Commission vision for the future of transport will be presented in the upcoming White Paper;
The Commission will soon adopt the Sustainable Transport Technology Plan (STTP);
The Clean Transport System initiative, to be adopted at the end 2011, aims to establishing a strategy to substitute fossil fuels by alternative fuels at the horizon 2050.

23. The EU Action on Clean Transport and Urban transport
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