Five European cities and regions honored with the OSMOSE Awards for their transport innovations
Madrid (ES), Essex (UK), Barcelona (ES), Aalborg (DK) and San Sebastian (ES) are the winners of this year’s OSMOSE Awards for local traffic innovations. The awards were presented to the winners on 7 April in London.
London – Five European cities and regions are awarded for their innovative approach in the field of sustainable urban transport. The OSMOSE Awards honour local and regional authorities that have shown the courage to introduce innovative and daring measures in order to meet today’s challenges in urban transport in a sustainable and effective way. The awards particularly look at the most promising new initiatives, which today still occupy a ‘niche’ position but clearly have the potential to become a ‘mainstream’ urban transport policy application in the future. “The awarded cities are all innovative forerunners in their field”, says Patrick Mercier-Handisyde from the European Commission, DG Research. The 2nd edition of the OSMOSE Awards were presented in five categories: • Innovative concepts to enhance accessibility: Essex (UK) • Efficient planning and use of infrastructure and interchanges: Madrid (ES) • Traffic Management Centres: Aalborg (DK) • Automated and Spaceefficient Transport: San Sebastian (ES) • Integrated approach on urban transport innovation: Barcelona (ES). The winners were presented with the awards on 7 April in London at the final conference of the NICHES+ project, which is organised in cooperation with the London European Partnership for Transport (LEPT). NICHES+ is an EU funded project within the framework of which the OSMOSE Awards were launched. NICHES+ aims to stimulate debate on innovative urban transport solutions. The first OSMOSE Awards were presented in 2007 to Barcelona, Bremen, Freiburg, Graz, Emilia Romagna and Stockholm. Embargo: Thursday, 7 April, 5.30pm Contacts: Ivo Cré Project Coordinator NICHES+ icre@polisnetwork.eu Phone: +32 (0)2 500 56 76 Mobile: +32 (0)476 32 77 26 www.osmose-os.org PRESS4TRANSPORT is funded by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7)
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PRESS4TRANSPORT is funded by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7)