Our political planning and control benefits from the expertise of international and national transport research, and from many projects which we partly commissioned ourselves.
We are committed to four main topics which cover the current and completed projects:
Modernisation of transport planning
- Green Paper EU:
With the Green Paper for urban transport the European Commission pursues the goal of initiating a public discussion. We have emphasised that we will take into account technical as well as demographic and economic factors for the further development of Berlin´s transport system.
- SpiCycles:
The project SpiCycles (Sustainable Planning & Innovation for Bicycles) provides valuable insight and ideas for planning for and promoting cyling in cities. The EU-funded project gathered ideas that focused on making the bicycle attractive as a means of transport for everyday journeys in cities.
- Pro.Mode:
The project identifies challenges for transport planning and policy resulting from demographic changes and their impact on public finances.
- POLIS:
We are committed to supporting the need for action in terms of transport and environment policy in big municipalities in order to attract more attention from the European Commission and the European Parliament. We are focusing on less contradicting European transport and environment policies.
- IMPACTS:
Berlin takes part in IMPACTS Europe, a forum for policy makers and dealing with sustainable transport policies by exchanging experiences on the development of transport strategies and their implementation.
Infrastructure modernisation
- COOPERS:
The EU project COOPERS (CO-OPerative SystEms for Intelligent Road Safety) researches the opportunities arising from new vehicle-to-vehicle communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies. The state of Berlin is committed to the project in order to test innovative ideas that render road traffic safer and more environmentally sound.
- CONNECT:
Connect had the task to promote the introduction of telematics applications on the road infrastructure for the Trans-European road network TERN.
Transport connections to Central and Eastern Europe
- Rail Baltica:
The Rail Baltica project aimed at improving the accessibility of the Baltic States by road. This aim should be achieved by carrying out improvements within the border area between Lithuania and Poland in order to avoid transits across Russian or Belorussian territory.
- Via Regia:
It was the intention of the project Via Regia to strengthen the East-West transport axis from Berlin to Kiew by railway and road.
Traffic campaigns
- YOUTH:
The project YOUTH (Youngsters Overhaul Today's Urban) was selected by the European Commission to promote the marketing and implementation of renewable energies in the area of transport. Ambassadors of this pan-European campaign are young people from four European cities.
