Sustainable mobility

The aim of the activity is to perform a study and determine:

• what influences the choice of mode of transport,
• what is people's attitude towards mobility,
• what kind of values are present in this field and
• which motives determine the trip we choose.

Based on gathered information, the Institute for Spatial Policies (IPoP) will organise six larger awareness-raising campaigns promoting active mobility – walking and cycling.

The target group of the activity are children, young persons and young families. The goal of the campaigns is to reduce the number of short-distance journeys made by car for 5% at least and, indirectly, reduce GHG emissions. Too many short-distance journeys are made by car. In Ljubljana, 14% of all journeys shorter than 1 kilometre are made by car, while 40% of journeys shorter than 5 kilometres are also made by car. In smaller towns, the share of journeys made by car is often even larger.

The aim of the activity is to strengthen and deepen the cooperation with local communities. Since 2002, European Mobility Week has been the main event for the promotion of sustainable mobility in Slovenia and wider in Europe. The number of municipalities participating has increased over the years. Within the project, the Ministry of Infrastructure will carry out six calls for co-financing of the activities by municipalities within European Mobility Week, which will contribute to the better implementation of activities, greater sustainability of measures, and relieve some of the financial burden of the municipalities carrying out the activities. In collaboration with the project partners and municipalities, the Ministry will also draw up a collection of activities with proposals for their implementation. The first call is expected to be published in February 2020. The effect of the activities will be measured according to the implemented activities of municipalities within European Mobility Week.

Within this activity, soft measures for increased competitiveness of public passenger transport (PPT) will be implemented. The number of trips made by PPT has decreased dramatically over the last decades in Slovenia – in 2017, only 4.3% of all trips were made by PPT, while 67.5% were made with a car. Consequently, the emissions of greenhouse gases caused by traffic in Slovenia between 1986 and 2014 increased by 166%. The proposals for the improvement of the PPT system will be prepared with an emphasis on price and management integration, improving accessibility and raising awareness. The information about PPT and other sustainable modes of travel will be available on a web platform designed according to the model of mobility as a service – MaaS. The goal of this activity is to increase the number of PPT trips and passenger kilometres throughout the next 10 years while decreasing the number of trips made by cars.

Within this activity, updated national guidelines for the integrated traffic engineering (integrated transport strategy) of municipalities and supporting topic guidelines for fields especially relevant for Slovenia will be drawn up. Potential financing sources of municipalities for the preparation and implementation of measures that are part of the integrated mobility strategy will also be examined. In recent years, more than 70 Slovenian municipalities created their own integrated mobility strategies based on the national guidelines from 2012.

The objective of this activity is to provide a comprehensive overview of solutions for the horizontal implementation of green logistics principles into various policies and create a basis for the establishment of the system for planning, promotion and implementation of green (city) logistics that has a direct and indirect impact on the GHG reduction. In the first phase of the project, guidelines for national coordinators and local self-governance will be prepared. In addition to that, two pilot projects testing the approaches identified within this action as well as integrating the findings of action C3.2, are planned in later stages of the project.

The focus will be on establishing and strengthening the awareness that mobility management measures at the institution level do not only benefit the city and the world (appealing to social awareness or responsibility, as external social costs are reduced), but also enable significant reduction of personal costs to the employees and visitors with an insignificant sacrifice of their own comfort. On the operational level, in particular on the basis of the findings of previous pilot projects, demonstration and dissemination activities will take place in the form of concrete projects with consolidated action plans to promote environmentally friendly transport to locations. When the repurposing of Cafova Street in Maribor to a shared space primarily intended for cyclists and pedestrians was announced, civil initiatives against the planned repurposing emerged. The latter was the result of the lack of awareness and fear of the residents, which was alleviated with microsimulations of the traffic and measurements of emissions in the immediate and broader surroundings that were also presented using graphical presentations. Measurements on the abovementioned street will continue to be carried out by the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture at the University of Maribor (UM FGPA) in the future. UM FGPA will also prepare national guidelines for mobility plans in case of emergencies (e.g. road closures, etc.) based on the measurements.

The Ministry of Infrastructure will prepare a comprehensive renovation of the Slovenian Sustainable Mobility Platform and maintain it to enable interactive functionality, such as web forums for key participants.
The Slovenian Sustainable Mobility Platform is a support tool for the Slovenian municipalities, regions and institutions for the dissemination of content/information/publications (guidelines, instructions, programmes, campaign plans, handbooks) for different fields, such as cycling, walking, P+R hubs, integrated traffic engineering, management of urban logistics, traffic management and other sustainable mobility topics, to key stakeholders participating in planning, decision-making, and implementation of sustainable mobility tasks. Access the Slovenian Sustainable Mobility Platform at http://sptm.si/.