Participating towns and cities

Italy Firenze (Florence) , Italy

Website:
Population:
366.767 inhabitants
Department:
City Manager Department - Fund Raising Service
Contact:
Alessandra Barbieri
Piazza Santa Croce, 1
50122 Firenze
(++39) 0552767620
Firenze (Florence) already registered 10x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2017 2008 2007 2006 2002

Participation 2017

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Firenze (Florence) organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2017, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
• Press conference for the presentation of the EMW
• City’s Mobility Managers meeting
• Workshop «La mobilità intelligente ci porta lontano - Intelligent mobility takes us afar» for discussing the present and the future of the sustainable mobility focused on pillar paths in Florence
• Info-points on EMW themes, focused on electric and shared mobility (bike / car sharing) for enhancing the shift toward more sustainable transport modes;
• Bicycle marking and registration of the bicycles at the national register "Easytag";
• Guided bicycle and walking tours for discovering the Cascine Park and the City;
• Start of “Piedibus”, the “walking school bus” initiative organised by a local primary school;
• Conference on the first 20 years of electric mobility in Florence;
• Bike2Work experience to encourage employees to commute to work by bicycle;
• “treasure hunt” to reward citizens who use sustainable public and sharing transport modes and actively participate in EMW activities;
• Contabici: an initiative to monitor the number of bicycles used for the home to work transfers within the city center;
• Intermodality travel planning to the EMW programme activities sites by a dedicated app;
• online survay on urban mobility behaviours;
• take advantage of the promotional offers made available by the service providers (CartoGo, Enjoy, Sharen’go, AddumaCar, Mobike)

day by day programme is available at: www.comune.fi.it/mobilityweek

Permanent measures Permanent measures

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

Mobility management
Permanent access restriction to city centres
Further info
Presentation of the new Restricted Traffic Zone at the Cascine Park (ZTL – Zona a Traffico Limitato) with access points controlled by cameras

Car-free day Car-free day

Firenze (Florence) carries out a Car-Free Day 2017 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.

Zone opened to residents on Car-Free Day:
Participation to the "Car-Free Day" of 22 September 2017 by closing the Cascine Park - Viale degli Olmi - Sharing service vehicles available for test drive