Romania’s Slatina successfully implementing its first SUMP

The Romanian City of Slatina has been successfully implementing its first SUMP (sustainable urban mobility plan), which it developed in 2017 to tackle heavy traffic caused by a mix of commuter journeys, transit traffic, and shopping trips and with the aim of becoming a more liveable, healthy, and economically attractive city. After identifying the main […]

Mobility August 20, 2020

Urban mobility will be in the spotlight in Europe this fall

Urban Mobility Days 2020, the European Commission’s first large-scale urban mobility conference, will take place from September 29 to October 2, kicking off a week after the end of European Mobility Week. The registration for Urban Mobility Days 2020 is open, according to Eltis, Europe’s main observatory on urban mobility, financed by the European Commission’s […]

Mobility August 19, 2020

GIZ ORF-EE working together with associations of municipalities towards sustainable urban mobility

Through cooperation with associations of municipalities and cities, numerous local authorities from the Western Balkans laid out their sustainable urban mobility strategy and made first steps toward a people-centered urban mobility system. The endeavour was facilitated by the Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency (ORF-EE), a regional project implemented by the Deutsche […]

Advancing Sustainable Urban Mobility in Western Balkan capitals: Tirana, Sarajevo SUMPs moving forward

Increasing individual traffic, bad conditions of transport infrastructure, safety issues, noise, and air pollution – for decades, the capitals of the Western Balkan have been facing a broad range of concerns on their transport situation. Suffering from these conditions, cities all over the Western Balkan have started to rethink their urban mobility approach over the […]

Policy brief on sustainable urban mobility for members of Parliament of Montenegro

National parliamentarians and parliamentary staff of Montenegro received a policy brief on sustainable urban mobility, prepared by local experts. GIZ expert Aljaž Plevnik shared his experience from Slovenia on the importance of the national level for the implementation of local sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs). Lawmakers and parliamentary staff gathered at the Parliament of Montenegro […]