Innovative urban transport concepts - moving from theory to practice - Brochure available in 5 languages



The NICHES+ summary brochure also provides a quick overview of all twelve innovative measures that the project has analysed. This brochure is available in English, French, German, Polish and Spanish.

 


The NICHES+ Guidelines for Implementers are now ready for download



NICHES+ has developed, together with leading experts on urban transport, twelve highly attractive and interesting practitioner manuals which explain you how to implement the NICHES+ schemes, which costs you will incur, what the benefits of the measures are, and which stakeholders to involve.

 

- Travel training for public transport

- Neighbourhood accessibility planning

- Tailored traveller information for users with reduced mobility

- Passenger friendly intermodal interchanges (available from September 2010)

- Innovative cycling facilities for intermodal interchanges (available from September 2010)

- Infrastructure for innovative bus systems (available from September 2010)

- Financing and implementing traffic management centres

- Mobile travel information services for the public

- Using environmental pollution data in traffic management

- Group Rapid Transit

- Personal Rapid Transit

- Electric cars in car share clubs


NICHES+ leaflet and first press release available



Click here to access the NICHES+ leaflet. NICHES+ produced a short press release to explain its activities to the media. Feel free to use this document. Click here to access the June 2009 NICHES+ press release.


NICHES brochures available for download now!



The final results of the NICHES project are now available. These results are compiled in a series of brochures drafted by the NICHES consortium members and reviewed by experts in the field from across Europe.

The reports include horizontal reports addressing urban transport innovation issues as well as policy notes dedicated to NICHES Innovative Concepts.

If you wish to receive the paper version of any of these reports, please return the completed request form to Polis, the NICHES coordinator.

Download the reports here.


Encouraging Urban Transport Innovation on the Local Level - The NICHES Policy Recommendations



The following policy notes were developed in the NICHES project:

 

Urban Lift-sharing Services
Public Bicycles
Call-a-bus Services
Space Management for Urban Delivery
Inner-city Night Delivery
Alternative Solutions for Home Delivery
Policy Strategy for Clean Vehicles
Biogas in Captive Fleets
Joint procurement of Clean Vehicles
Transportation Management Associations
Road Pricing Schemes
City-wide Campaigns

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