Activities within the week
Modena organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2013, taking into account the annual theme.
All week
Starting from the idea that increasing pedestrian and cycling mobility means to promote sustainable and healthy lifestyle and eventually to adopt transport habits alternative to the cars, during the week we organize several activities such as guided walks for citizens from working places to public parks, presentation of survey on adults’ physical activity habits, marathons, sport village for children, animations in the parks, Sunday without cars, and so on.
Permanent measures
Modena implements one or more new permanent measure(s), which contribute(s) to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport.
New or improved bicycle facilities
Improvement of bicycle network (creation of new lanes, extension, renovation, signposting etc)
Develop public bicycle hiring and sharing systems
Pedestrianisation
Improvement of infrastructure (new foot bridges, pavements, road crossings, zebra crossings etc)
Public transport services
Improvement and extension of the public transport services (express services, increase frequency etc)
Use of ecological vehicles for public transport fleets
Freight distribution
Create new platforms for freight transfer
Mobility management
Adoption of workplace travel plans
Adoption of school travel plans
Elaboration of educational materials
Permanent access restriction to city centres
Create systems for buses and walking trains
Further info
In order to reduce the concentrations of air pollutants and reduce acute episodes of pollution, the Municipality of Modena from 2002 subscribes to the Program Agreement on regional air quality.
In this document, which is periodically renewed, are contained the planned measures limiting vehicular traffic and emergency measures for the management of critical situations; at the same time there is the will to maintain high public attention to the issues related to air pollution in order to promote the dissemination of transport systems with low impact, alternative to the private car and protecting public health. In the agreement are also provided regional actions aimed at improving the systems of collective mobility (TPL, railways, car sharing, car pooling), initiatives to encourage energy conservation and the use of best available techniques in productive activities. In the agreement there is the permanent measure of “ecological Sundays”.
Modena, Italy