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Funding: National Government, if the annual report is positive. Then, the Local
Authority can be eligible for 75% of the investment, plus 25% depending on the
quality evaluation and level of achievement. A new guide for the second round of
plans (2006/2011) has been launched.
Italy
. Italian PUM's
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starts in 1996, with a Law from the Public Works Ministry
on Urban Traffic Plans for cities with more than 30,000 inhabitants. The law
340/2000 and the National Transport Plan defined the methodology for its imple-
mentation. Stricto sensu only the traffic plans are compulsory (i.e., appropriate
disciplinary measures are taken), since the mobility plans are responsibility of those
cities and regions with more than 100,000 inhabitants which can obtain funds from
the National Government (up to 50% of the investment costs of the measures
planed in the PUM).
There are a set of national guidelines for the implementation, even if the region
produce its own. These guidelines define a set of indicators to measure the effec-
tiveness of the programme. Anyway, the goal is to integrate the PUM at sectoral
levels, that is, with the PUT and with the urban and environmental planning. Time
horizon: 10 years, with a bi-annual review.
Funding: National Government 60% of the investment (as a maximum), and the
rest between municipalities and regions.
Objectives: to satisfy the citizen's mobility needs, reduce pollution, noise, energy
consumption and private car use, to increase the road safety, to foster car-pooling
and car-sharing as mechanisms to reduce congestion in urban areas.
Spain
. The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP)
[13]
were launched in the
framework of a strategic and well defined plan, made up of the Master Plan for
Infrastructures and Transport and the Energy Saving and Efficiency Strategy. Apart
from that, and with the remarkable exception of the Mobility Law issued by the
Catalan Government in 2003, there is not any compulsory rule to implement them.
But in 2006 a guide for the elaboration and implementation of Sustainable
Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) was launched. The guide explains in a clear and
accessible way the main characteristics that a plan must have; measures, implemen-
tation methodologies, stakeholders, public participation process, good practices,
etc. There is national funding foreseen to foster its implementation as well.
The guide recommends to those municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants
the adoption of a SUMP, within a time horizon depending on the kind of measures
to be implemented, 2 to 8 years.
Regarding the objectives, the guide does not provide a list beyond those that the
word “sustainable” suggests: it will depend on each case, since the needs of each
city differs. It recommends keeping the plan within a regional strategy, coordinating
both municipal and regional levels.
Very schematically, those are some measures to be implemented by means of a
SUTP, grouped by intervention areas
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:
Traffic management and control (TMC)
Parking management (PM)
