Competitive Urban Models - Smart Rules for Smart Cities - page 10

Other measures to improve sustainability of transportation within cities are the
implementation of inter-modal mobility as well as carpooling and car sharing
services, the introduction of the ''Mobility Manager'' and the support to the so-
called soft mobility (on foot and bikes). In this context, also the adoption of
incentives for alternative fuel based public or private transportation means, using
RES and not competing with the food sector and thus really sustainable, is
advisable.
The recently started European project MobiEurope 5 , promoting the electric
transportation in cities supported by a strong ICT infrastructure, among the
expected results reports around 30 % of the total energy consumed for e-mobility
deriving from Renewable Energy Sources and mainly wind power.
The ultimate aim of the project is to bring together four major on-going electro-
mobility initiatives, effectively contributing to a pan-European interoperable and
integrated smart-connected electro-mobility.
The idea of a EU register office for vehicles, with trans-boundary validity all over
Europe, suggested by some actors is certainly an interesting proposal, which
deserves further study. The elaboration of the data about traffic and vehicles paths
can give indications, assistance and dynamic control of transportation to passengers,
drivers, and operators in the field of goods and people mobility all across Europe.
Some applications are already available for highways, railways and river
transportation. In the next years, these applications will be strengthened by the
satellite system Galileo 6 , which includes at most 30 satellites in orbit at around
20,000 km of height and that will allow a really precise localization of transpor-
tation means.
The current organization of transportations within most cities in Italy for
example is characterized by a predominance of traffic on the roads and by the use
of private vehicles. This aspect, else than representing one of the most significant
causes of green house gas air pollution, jeopardizing the health of citizens,
influences the efficiency of the urban areas.
As a conclusion, sustainable mobility for cities is an urban mobility system able
to put together the need for reducing the so-called negative externalities connected
to it and efficiency.
Each measure to get these objectives has pros and cons and different impacts
considering the local features at social, regulatory and economic level and rep-
resents also political views about the development of cities.

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MOBI.Europe aims to make users more comfortable with the use of EVs beyond the limits of
''range anxiety'' by providing them universal access to an interoperable charging infrastructure,
independently from their energy utility and region.—See more at: http://www.mobieurope.eu/
the-project/objectives/ .
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European system of satellite location, competitor of the american GPS, operational since the
beginning of year 2014.