TraCit

Transport Carbon IntenCities

Total budget (match funding + ERDF): €322,100.00

The overall aim of the project will be to identify and share knowledge and best practice between partner regions on schemes and policies with the potential to reduce carbon intensive travel while at the same time supporting the development, economic growth and sustainability of new and existing urban environments.

A common approach to measuring travel intensity and carbon audits with respect to CO2 emissions will also be developed at regional levels down to specific business and individual levels in order to determine base lines, trends and to assess the impact of schemes and policies as and when they are introduced enabling regions to meet strategic aims related to each of these associated problems. This project takes an integrated approach to mobility and urban & regional development; the reciprocity between regional and local sustainable mobility and regional sustainable development is explored in order determine improved implementation of Low Carbon Transport strategies to the benefit of both.

Project partners will function as observers and evaluators in each other’s projects, providing a strategic continuity, mutually reinforcing one another, combining knowledge transfer activities through joint studies determining best practice benchmark exemplars for future low carbon transport initiatives.

The mix of Academic, Industrial and Municipal partners will bring together experts, decision makers and practitioners in order that policy recommendations can be made that are evidenced by research and are implementable given political and regulatory frameworks across the partner regions.

Project Outcomes

• Common audit measurement method developed for all scales

• Carbon Audits – for each partner region

• Pilots study, installation design, development & implementation – for each partner region

• Web site development with regular maintenance & updates

• Regional workshops (all partners) & interim review workshops (Estonian & Polish partners)

• Final Dissemination Events – each partner region

• Advice Guide - on sustainable transport projects with particular reference to regulatory barriers and opportunities and likely benefits in terms of carbon emissions and a free to use Transport Carbon Intensity (TraCit) calculation webpage.

 

News! On the 1st on June TRACIT project partner Stockholm Environment Institute - Tallinn has launched the second educating cycling/sustainable transport cartoon (Peter Bunny dreams of a cooler city). The cartoon can be seen by following links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXCW0vDhPjs
http://www.lastekas.ee/index.php?go=web&t=1&id=3896

Views by today:

1 cartoon: Peter Bunny cycling in the city (launch May 18, 2011)
http://www.lastekas.ee/index.php?go=web&t=1&id=3877 39,917 views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-vscr7DiU 2630 views

2 cartoon: Peter Bunny dreams of a cooler city (launch June 1, 2011)
http://www.lastekas.ee/index.php?go=web&t=1&id=3896 24,478 views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXCW0vDhPjs 6404 views