The European Mobility Week is an awareness
raising campaign aiming at sensibilising citizens to the use of public
transport, cycling, walking and at encouraging European cities to
promote these modes of transport and to invest in the new necessary
infrastructures.
The overall aim of the campaign is to encourage public awareness of the need to act against pollution caused by the increase in motorised traffic in the urban environment. In fact, it is not just a question of fighting atmospheric pollution or noise but also of improving the quality of urban life.
Accordingly, that operation is centred on three types of measures, designed to:
- encourage the use of alternative forms of transport and travel other than private cars,
- raise awareness and inform city-dwellers of what is at stake so far as concerns long-term mobility in towns and the risks connected with pollution,
- show the town in another light thanks in particular to reduced motorised traffic within restricted areas.
It is an opportunity for all the participating cities and towns
to show how much environmental issues concern them. The operation will
allow them to express themselves on the matter and at the same time give
citizens an opportunity to show their support by their interest and
involvement, for measures for a better quality of life
in the urban environment. Because to offer everyone an alternative
means of getting around, necessarily entails rethinking the
apportionment of the highways. Therefore, the European Mobility Week
is a unique moment in the year when the elected town councillors can
test their transport policies and present them to the citizens.
For more information visit www.mobilityweek.eu/