1. GEF/UNDP PROJECT
Sustainable Mobility in the City
of Bratislava
RESPONDER conference, Bratislava 21-22 March 2013
Jana Pangrácová, UNDP
Tibor Schlosser, City of Bratislava
Angel Aparicio, Mid-term Evaluator
3. Reduction of CO2 emissions from road transport
(GEF Focal area: Climate Change Mitigation)
What do we want to achieve?
4. What’s the situation in road transport?
• transport accounts for 20% of national CO2emissions
-> 98% of transport emissions from roads
• 5% annual increase in CO2 emissions from motor
vehicles
• modal split between public and individual transport
(2007) 59 : 41
(1993) 75 : 25
5. How to achieve the
goals?
• By making private car use less attractive & by
promoting sustainable urban transport modes
PARKING
Car-pooling / car-sharing
Non-Motorized Transport - Biking
Tram (Public Transport) Priority
6. What do we actually do?
• Technical recommendations
– implementation guidelines
Consensus building
• Pilot implementation
– co-financing / mobilizing funds
– awareness raising through community involvement
WEAK (-) STAKEHOLDERS’ INVOLVEMENT (+) STRONG
PARKING
PUBLIC
TRANSPORT
NMT (BIKING)
CAR SHARING
CAR POOL
MONITORING
MNGMENT
MONITORING
MAGIBA
MoT
MoE
SHMU
MoT
MoE
UNDP ECB
ECB
MEPASYS
STaRZ
POLICE
MAGIBA
BID &
REGION DPB
BOROUGHS
BOROUGHS
MAGIBA
ECB
7. PARKING – baseline situation
• NOT a traffic management tool
but source of income
• encouraging the use of private cars
“unique” reservations, no time limits
• billing and payment system does
not discourage long-term parking
• no effective enforcement
8. Principles & challenges:
•a unified system across the whole city (17 boroughs)
managed by single entity
•income used for “green transport” modes
•residential zones, no reserved parking spaces
•higher parking fees but paying for actual time
•use of ITS solutions for charging and information
•transparent, corruption-free and strict enforcement
Implementation
PARKING – new system
9. TRAM PRIORITY
Baseline situation: NO tram preference at intersections
•Analysis of 2 tram corridors -
aim: „The tram stops at stations only“
Pilot projects:
•installation of dynamic public transport priority
equipment at 2 intersections
•implementation of improving measures to shorten
the average trip time
Implementation
The new infrastructure PT tram track projects with
control junctions to follow the same philosophy
10. BIKING (Non-Motorized Transport)
Baseline situation:
•bicycles used for recreational purposes
•underdeveloped NMT infrastructure
NMT proposals:
•unified design standards for biking lanes
•support to daily use of bikes
•strengthen bikers’/pedestrians’ needs in traffic mgt
Pilot projects:
•new bike lanes and upgrading of organizational rules
Implementation
11. Car-pool / Car-share
Baseline situation: NO sharing programs in place
Pilot projects:
•Car-pool – launched in Jan 2013 (500 users)
•Car-share – service operator preparing
the business plan + identification of C/S stations
Implementation
12. • Strategy of the City
Development
Sustainable Urban
Mobility Planning
1. Mobility on agglomeration
2. Accessibility in time
3. Sustainability in space
4. Environment friendly
5. Energy saving
Create
smart traffic/transport
conditions
Visions of the Future
13. Visions of the Future II
Mobility and Accessibility - Tools to be Smart
1.PT preference - decreasing the dynamic traffic
on traffic lights junctions, space segregation, ..
2. Development of PT track - connection of
tram and rail network in the city - new terminals
3. New strategy in parking policy
4. Non-motorized transport strategy
14. Visions of the Future II
Smart management
1.Strategy of space development and the
transport as a service on it
2.Priority of the people inside of the city
the methodology for the transport space &
servise needs
the methodology for
each kind of transport mode
15. Visions of the Future III
Mobility-supportive models & procedures
• Transport demand modeling for
services and applications
• Solutions for integrated traffic
planning in real time
• Design of open architecture
• Smart services for moving the people
Analysis
& Planning
Implementation
& Integration
Service
& Maintenance
16. LESSON #1
STRONG LOCAL LEADERSHIP
LESSON #1
STRONG LOCAL LEADERSHIP
• mobilize the existing know-how within the Municipality
• align with the mayor’s priorities
• be consistent with the “political cycle”
• create links to regional and national policies and politics
HOW TO BUILD IT?
17. LESSON #2
EXTERNAL EXPERTS
LESSON #2
EXTERNAL EXPERTS
International technical experts have
no magic solutions
BUT help
to move beyond “business as usual” perspectives
to fight the local skepticism
to facilitate a winning coalition among technical experts and decision makers
IF
they identify the critical barriers for change and give
solutions
they adapt their expertise to the local context
18. LESSON #3
“GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS….SO WHAT?”
LESSON #3
“GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS….SO WHAT?”
Urban mobility projects are full of good
recommendations which are never implemented
The Project manager cannot avoid:
• 3 tough questions:
Who’s doing what?
Who has the money?
Which are the rules of the game?
•close monitoring of implementation plans and
co-financing commitments
19. LESSON #4
NETWORKING, NETWORKING, NETWORKING
LESSON #4
NETWORKING, NETWORKING, NETWORKING
Use the full project’s potential for:
•connecting institutions
•strengthening local leadership
•engaging reluctant stakeholders
•empowering local communities
Adapt the project governance structure to the
project’s networking needs.
21. LESSON #5
EARL OF MONITORING
LESSON #5
EARL OF MONITORING
You will:
•only assume
•get lost in your management
•lack a basis for dialogue
•be irrelevant for decision-makers
IF YOU DON’T RELY ON
EARLY MONITORING
BA Transport project is a nationally implemented GEF/UNDP project. On the highest level, there are 3 project partners: GEF, UNDP and the national Government/MoE The GEF – TF that functions as a Financial mechanism for 4 international conventions: Convention on Biological Diversity; U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification Stockholm Convention on POPs – GEF is currently the largest funder of the new country actions addressing improvement of the global environment. UNDP – UN’s global development network that links and coordinates global and national efforts. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to achieve human development and the MDGs. We work in 4 main areas: Poverty Reduction and Achievement of the MDGs Democratic Governance Crisis Prevention and Recovery Environment and Energy for Sustainable Development UNDP is central to the delivery the MDGs. It has a direct programmatic role on a number of MDGs. Apart form its own programmatic actions, UNDP serves as 1 of 10 GEF Implementing Agencies through which the countries can access GEF funds and supports implementation of those projects but the projects are owned and implemented by national authorities (Ministry of Environment and Energy Center Bratislava).
The goal of the project is to reduce the CO2 emissions from the road transport sector in Bratislava. The project’s strategy was prepared within the GEF Focal area of Climate Change Mitigation, under the Strategic program of “Promoting Sustainable Innovative Systems for Urban Transport). {GEF funding is available for the activities within the GEF Focal Areas (Biodiversity, Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation, Chemicals, International Waters, Land Degradation, Sustainable Forest Management / REDD +, Ozone Layer Depletion)}
Transport is the 3rd largest sector in Slovakia that mostly contributes to increased emissions of greenhouse gases (accounts for 20%) and 98% of these emissions come from the ROAD transport. In Bratislava region, there is more than 5% annual increase in CO 2 emissions from motor vehicles Modal split between public and individual transport has changed in favor of individual cars -> which is due to increased car ownership and extra 200,000 commuters each day (BA’s population is 431,000)
What is our strategy how to achieve the goal of reducing CO2 emissions? We want to reduce the use of private cars for urban trips by making this choice less attractive and at the same time promote green transport modes. The project has 4 main components: PARKING: By adopting and implementing a new on-street parking policy that regulates parking we are trying to make private car use less attractive, more time consuming and more expensive. As a result, the project will also reduce the traffic of cars seeking parking, as parking spaces will not be occupied. On the other hand we strengthen green modes of transport by: TRAM PRIORITY: Implementing priority system for public transport in 2 tram corridor s in order to shorten the average trip time. NMT: Promoting NMT for daily trips, and not only for recreation and building the biking infrastructure. C/S; C/P: By adopting a policy and pilot implementation of car share and car pool programs we aim to divert drivers from driving alone to sharing options.
In all 4 components, there are 2 main phases: Technical assistance and Pilot implementation, both accompanied by awareness raising. Within each component, feasibility studies have been prepared that consist of verified international practice, implementation guidelines and proposals of the measures to be implemented. By partnering the international experts with the local ones, the project also focuses on building national capacities. The feasibility studies have been prepared within all 4 components and this year we are moving to the implementation phase. Implementation of pilots will take place also in all 4 components. Before moving to the implementation phase, the consensus needs to be built so that all the stakeholders understand and accept what they are expected to do. Numerous stakeholders are involved in the project as illustrated on the picture. Consensus is being reached among the different technical services of the Municipality and between the Municipality and the city boroughs through: Workshops with key stakeholders Information on best practices in other cities
An integrated PT concept implemented in BA region since March 2013