SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORT IN MEDITERRANEAN
A program of exchanges and “good practices” for a shared Mediterranean culture
MARSEILLE CENTER for MEDITERRANEAN INTEGRATION
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION CMI The CMI was launched in Marseille in October 2009 in order to build a platform to promote integration in the Mediterranean through high level dialogue on sectoral policies that would allow knowledge dissemination and management in areas that are vital for the development of the region: urban and spatial development, environment and water, transport and logistics, innovation and technology, skills development and labor mobility. CMI founding members are the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, and the governments of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon and France (represented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Ecology, in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and the City of Marseille). Other partners will join the Center in the near future.
TARGET COUNTRIES The CMI’s objective is to create a multi-partnership between all countries on both shores of the Mediterranean aimed at achieving a shared ownership of the sub-region’s development challenges and improving public policies in areas identified as crucial for these countries.
PROGRAM PARTNERS The “Sustainable Urban Transport” program (UD4) is one of the fourteen programs currently conducted within this multi-partnership framework. It is primarily funded by the AFD, also head of the program, and in charge of the program’s set up, finding complementary financing and methodological approach. The program’s operational implementation has been entrusted to the association CODATU (Cooperation for urban mobility in the developing world) that works with centers of expertise and research: CERTU, CETE Méditerranée and the Blue Plan. Other technical or financial partners include the countries and cities that host events organized by the program, the City of Marseille, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank and organizations like MedCities or the Mediterranean Commission of UCLG.
MAIN ISSUES All Mediterranean basin cities, North and South, face a critical situation in urban transport. The causes of this crisis may be economic growth, motorization of the population, developing activities or urban sprawl. The growing needs in urban transport (sub-urban and intraurban) result in rising levels of urban congestion and pollution that slow down economic development while increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Also, the public transport offer— both mass transport and small-scale transport—requires more and more investments and organization efforts to meet the mobility needs of the population, including those with a low income. Adequate management of urban transport is therefore a critical issue that concerns all aspects of sustainable urban development: technical, economic, social, spatial, environmental, financial and institutional. Effective management should be able to better control urban sprawl, stabilize the demand of fossil energy, preserve the urban environment and provide improved access for the greatest number to jobs and services in the city. Central governments and local actors are now aware of the need to develop their urban transport networks according to a global multimodal integrated approach. They have already undertaken many initiatives to this end. They also feel the need to exchange with their counterparts, who are confronted in other cities and countries with the same challenges, and to be able to compare and discuss their respective “good practices”, assess the input and its limitations, in order to obtain the best references to improve the strategy best suited to their city and their country.
A PROGRAM FOR CAPACITY BUILDING AND REINFORCEMENT OF PUBLIC POLICIES
OTHER PARTNERS In the course of the program, other public institutions, local governments, municipal associations, universities or centers of excellence of the countries in the sub-region will be able to join the program.
The “Sustainable Urban Transport” program will therefore present and analyze noteworthy, concrete cases of “good practices” that may be observed in the field in cities on both shores of the Mediterranean. It will also place these concrete cases in their own urban context in order to set forth, through exchanges between participants, the necessary coherence and possible limitations of the approaches chosen by these cities. The program will reinforce the Mediterranean network of knowledge and partnerships in the urban transport sector. It will also favor building a “body of knowledge” on the sector, which is both concrete and adapted to the realities of Mediterranean cities. It is one of the four complementary programs on urban and spatial development of the CMI: Strategic Urban Development (UD1); Cities and Climate Change (UD2); Medinas 2030 (UD3) and Sustainable Urban Transport (UD4).
ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM SIX MEETINGS OVER A THREE-YEAR PERIOD: The program is based on a series of six meetings over a three-year period from 2010 to 2012: an inaugural regional conference (Damascus, April 2010), four thematic workshops (one per semester), and a regional summing up conference (end of 2012). The final objective of these meetings is to gradually create a shared Mediterranean culture of good practices in sustainable urban transport by: • consolidating the sector’s knowledge networks throughout the Mediterranean; • developing multiple partnerships; • building a body of knowledge tailored for Mediterranean cities. This collaborative work will also provide continuing skills development opportunities for hundreds of leaders in Mediterranean cities and will reinforce the shared culture for the implementation of sustainable systems of urban mobility, adapted to common Mediterranean characteristics (climate, urbanization patterns—including medinas and historic centers—, social practices, etc.), yet taking into account the specificities or distinctive features of each city. Calendar of Meetings: • Inaugural Regional Conference: Damascus, April 23-24, 2010 • Thematic Workshop on Mobility in Medinas and Historic Centers: Marseille, November 29 and December 1, 2010 • Two workshops in 2011 (May-June and November-December) One workshop in 2012 (May-June) • Regional Summing up Conference: end of 2012 The exact place and date of the events scheduled for 2011 and 2012, as well as programs, may be consulted on the CMI website, www.cmimarseille.org, that would be updated regularly.
MANUAL OF GOOD PRACTICES AND DOCUMENTARY BASE As the meetings take place, a collection of good practices will gradually be compiled and complemented with discussions with meeting participants. The interactive preparation of the document, a truly shared and common manual, will be the most visible and concrete “intellectual product” of the program.
Head of Program: AFD (French Development Agency) / Xavier HOANG, Jocelyne VAUQUELIN Program Management: CODATU / Laurence LAFON, Xavier GODARD, Alexis JOVIGNOT Technical Support: CERTU / Thierry GOUIN; CETE Méditerranée / Marine MILLOT; Blue Plan / Sylvain HOUPIN and Philippe VALLOUIS
CONTACTS Marseille Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) Villa Valmer - 271, Corniche Kennedy - 13007 Marseille - France Tel: 33 (0)4 91 99 24 56 www.cmimarseille.org CODATU 21, boulevard Vivier Merle - 69003 Lyon - France Tel: 33 (0)4 78 62 23 09 Codatu.lafon@wanadoo.fr codatu.ajovignot@orange.fr
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The manual will also contain documents, studies and reports assembled in the course of the program. It will become a permanent documentary base that may be accessed on line by all during and after the program.