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NICHES+
("NICHES plus") is
a FP7 coordination action aiming to network key actors
actively engaged in developing innovative urban transport
concepts and to facilitate the coordination of their activities
across Europe.
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Project
Goal |
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NICHES+ mission: Comprehensive coordination on urban transport
innovation
The NICHES+ consortium aims to continue and expand a comprehensive
coordination platform for innovative urban transport solutions.
NICHES+ shares the same mission as its forerunner project NICHES:
To stimulate a wide debate on innovative urban transport and mobility
between relevant stakeholders from different sectors and disciplines
across the EU and accession countries, in order to promote the
most promising new concepts, initiatives and projects from their
current "niche" position to a "mainstream"
urban transport policy application.
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Expected
Results |
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- In depth analysis and promotion of 12 innovative concepts
in four thematic areas with the support of expert working groups
(WGs):
-WG1: Innovative concepts to enhance accessibility
-WG2: Efficient planning and use of infrastructure and interchanges
-WG3: Urban traffic management centres
-WG4: Automated space-efficient transport systems
- Effective networking by bringing together for personal exchange
at least 500 stakeholders relevant for the uptake of innovative
urban transport solutions. Working group meetings, conferences
and national events will provide the main platform for networking.
- Establish the success factors and conditions for transferability
of the new NICHES+ concepts, and issue concrete recommendations
for integration into local policies.
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Preparing for the actual take-up of innovative
concepts in European 7 NICHES+ Champion Cities (see map) through
the promotion of at least ten on-site visits via a study tour
catalogue and other targeted promotion activities. The cities
will develop implementation scenarios for innovative transport
concepts in co-operation with the NICHES+ partners and external
experts. 
- Expand the OSMOSE open source website for urban transport
innovation as a comprehensive urban mobility innovation portal
for local practitioners and decision makers.
- Recommendations for further research, demonstration and technical
development within the EU's Framework Programmes for Research
and Technical Development.
- Develop twelve additional policy notes for local decision
makers on the impact and problem solving capacity of the innovative
urban transport concepts to meet key mobility challenges, also
providing practical guidance on implementing the innovative
transport concepts.
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Role of Rupprecht
Consult |
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Rupprecht Consult is technical
coordinator of the NICHES+ project and leads Working Group 1 on
"Innovative concepts to enhance accessibility". |
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Project Duration |
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2007-2010
funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme,
DG Research.
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Project co-ordinator |
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POLIS - European Cities and Regions Networking for New Transport
Solutions
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Organisation |
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The NICHES+ consortium is made up of 6 partners from 4 countries
(Belgium, Germany, Hungary and UK). All the partners are known
as experts on innovative urban mobility policies in their countries
and at EU level.
The following types of organisations are represented in the consortium:
- City networks: Polis, EUROCITIES
- Private research and consultancy companies: Rupprecht Consult,
Transman
- Universities: University of Newcastle, University of Southampton
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Further information |
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Sebastian Bührmann
Tel: +49-221-60 60 55 14
Project Website
www.niches-transport.org
OSMOSE website on innovations
in urban transport
www.osmose-os.org
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