On the 15th of June 2005, in Koeln (Germany) the Plume Final Conference “Towards Sustainable Mobility II” has taken place, to which Regione Emilia Romagna has been invited to make a presentation on “The regional perspective” in the field of land-use and transport integration. Here follows the presentation made by Silvia Zamboni, on behalf of Regione Emilia Romagna’s Agenzia Trasporto Pubblico.

Plume is a thematic network within the Land-Use and Transportation Research cluster (LUTR) of the City of Tomorrow key action funded by the European Commission DG Reasearch.

The LUTR cluster ( www.lutr.net) links several different projects in the field of sustainable urban mobility, including land-use, transportation and environment. The common goal is to develop strategic approaches and methodologies in urban planning which are all able to promote sustainable urban development.

Plume started in November 2002 and ended in April 2005; it has been co-ordinated by TTR (Great Britain) working in partnership with ITS Leeds (Great Britain)), ISIS (Italy), Polis (Belgium). EC official in cvharge: Eric Ponthieu (Eric.Ponthieu@cec.eu.int).
Plume’s objective has been facilitate the transfer of innovation in the field of planning and urban sustainable mobility from research community to end users in european cities, in order to improve urban quality of environment and life. To reach this goal, Plume has undertaken a review of the needs of local authorities in relationship to sustainable urban development, land-use and transport planning; it has circulated every year a state-of-the-art review, containing a summery of best practices in urban sustainable mobility; it has also invited indipendent experts to evaluate the applicability of the research results and to facilitate discussions between researchers and end users in specific workshops; finally, it has seeked to disseminate best pratices in european urban areas. The Plume network has been based on four groups: a project group aimed at synthesing projects results and recommendations; an advisory group made up by indipendent experts with the task to review the project group’s recommendations and to lead the workshops; an end users group made up by municipal and regional local authorities representatives; an exploitation group aimed at disseminating best practices and recommendations in european cities.

The RER contribution to the PLUME FINAL CONFERENCE