Participating towns and cities

ItalyProvince of Treviso, Italy

Website:
www.provincia.treviso.it
Population:
825.000 inhabitants
Department:
Environment
Contact:
Luisa Memo/ Paola Gallina
Via Cal di Breda 116
31100 Treviso Province of Treviso
(++39) 0422 656765 -6967
Province of Treviso already registered 7x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

Participation 2007

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Province of Treviso organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2007, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
The Province of Treviso is participating for the first time at the EMW and the whole initiative planned for its territory is called "Let’s make the right move. Provincial days for the environment. European week for mobility. 15 - 23 settember 2007".
"Let's make the right "is a weekly initiative aiming at meeting the focal theme "Streets for people". For that the Province of Treviso has planned several activities in particular for incentiveting the use of bicicles in the city centers and araising the pedestrian and cycling areas in the city centres.
The Province of Treviso has been worked strictly with the 95 Municipalities of its territory in the field of environment and mobility. Therefore on the 12 July 2007 the Province of Treviso explained them that important opportunity, offering an operative framework of activities and proposal, assistance and coordination, in order to create a shared and busy programme for the citizens and to guarantee a spread organisation of the "In Town Without My Car!" event.

"Let’s make the right move" is sort of "slogan" whose frame is the "International draughts": each square represent one of the theme developed through the programme: mobility, territory, technologies, education, tourism, environment, energy, health and culture.

- Mobility
Environmentally friendly fuel and biodiesel; Alternatives to the private car; Mobility for cycling and pedestrians; Urban route networks and free time; Urban plans for traffic, Intermodal systems.Exchange car parks, Reserved lanes for pubblic transport; Public and collective transport, Car sharing and Car pooling; Industrial and commercial areas; Scolastic poles.
- Technologies
- Education
Plans for scolastic and urban environments; Quality of life; Food safety; Moving house to school and safety; Environmental and alimentary education.; Local territory knowledge
- Tourism
Products from the local textile industry; Local identity; Itineries with bike hire services; Shuttle services; Restaurants
Territorial touristic plan.; Bike and pedestrian paths; waterways; Ippovie.
- Territory
Market exhibitions; Didactic farms; Tolerable development..; Ecologic imprints.
- Energy
Energy saving; Renewable sources; Biobuilding; Certification of buildings.
- Environment
Water emergency; Environmental costs and use of land; Atmospheric pollution.; Climatic changes.

In that board game citizens are the players: during the EMW citizens can choose to participate at one or more of the events programmed.
The whole communication material - leaflets, brochures, newsletter, television advertsign - reproduce the "International draughts" imagine: a squared colored"board game". That metafora has been thought as a permanent communication tool.

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Province of Treviso implements one or more new permanent measure(s), which contribute(s) to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport.

Further info
-Realisation of cycling itineraries of the Province of Treviso, including an analysis of the present infrastructural need and supply , in order to individualize the overriding needs for the intervention. In this works have been studied the qualitative aspect, the principle criticalities in order to propose improving standard interventions, building up a list of standard solution to be proposed in contexts of new realisation or in phase of maintenance, through the realisation of qualified photographic documentation.
-Presentation of prototypes ( draws and rendeting) of the bike sharing project for the Municipality of Treviso. The Province of Treviso in cooperation with the Municipality of Treviso and the Productive District of bike presented to the Ministry of Environment Affairs last February the project of public bike, for the citizens’ and public administration employees’ use. The concept is that users can rant public bikes for the daily urban and house- work displacements
-Activities with schools. The theatrical performance planned durino the EMW “Pippo and sunflowers” about the sustainable development and mobility and the theatrical performance “Mario, Bacon e the fast eating witch” about food education and sport activities will be performed during the school year through the distribution of educational material ( leaflet to be colored about the issues: air, water, urbam displaements, garbage and sustainable development) and educational spot aiming at starting up activities of “Pedibus and Bicibus” for the compulsory schools.

Car-free day Car-free day

Province of Treviso carries out a Car-Free Day 2007 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.