Participating towns and cities

United KingdomNottingham, United Kingdom

Website:
www.transportnottingham.com
Population:
329.200 inhabitants
Department:
Traffic & Transport
Nottingham already registered 11x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2020 2019 2018 2015 2014 2012 2010 2009 2007 2004 2002

Participation 2015

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Nottingham organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2015, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
Week of activities: This year Nottingham is supporting EMW with an events programme offering 24 events across the City during the week 16th – 22nd September. Activities will be taking place in each day of EMW including community bikes rides, cycle training sessions, Dr Bike services in local communities and activities at Freshers Fairs to highlight travel options to new students. The full programme is available at www.thebigwheel.org.uk/14818 european-mobility-week-2015/ and is being promoted by the event partners through a widespread social media campaign in e-newsletters, Twitter and Facebook.
The highlight of the week will be a car free family street fayre in Nottingham City Centre on Saturday 19th September to highlight the city’s integrated transport offer and to encourage people, to choose, change combine sustainable travel options for their daily journeys the Hockey Street Fayre will offer a wide range of free activities designed to engage people in conversations about sustainable travel and to promote the full range of available sustainable travel services and permanent measures . See relevant section for more info about this day.

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Nottingham implements, planned or promotes 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) implemented
Develop public bicycle hiring and sharing systems implemented
Improvement of bicycle facilities (parking, locks etc) implemented
In April this year Nottingham City Council commenced a two year investment programme providing in excess of £10 per head of population investment into the City’s Cycle network totalling over £6 millio
Public transport services
Improvement and extension of the public transport network (creation of HOV lanes for public transport modes, new stops, new lines, reserved areas etc) implemented
Improvement and extension of the public transport services (express services, increase frequency etc) implemented
• NET Phase 2 (extension of tram network) opened on 26th August providing 2 new lines to Chilwell and Clifton extending the tram network to 32km serving communities and businesses in the north, west a
Traffic calming and access control scheme
Create park and ride stations implemented
• New Park and Ride sites associated with NET Phase 2 at Toton and Clifton opened on 26th August providing an additional 2,400 park and ride spaces.
New forms of vehicle use and ownership
Launch of online car-pooling and car-sharing schemes implemented
Use of clean vehicles implemented
Expansion of Nottingham City Car Club to 3 new locations outside the City centre at the Queens Drive, Racecourse and Forest park and Ride Sites was launched on 29th July. This expansion brings the Cit
Mobility management
Adoption of workplace travel plans implemented
Focused programme of activity to encourage sustainable business travel under the banner Totally Transport has been developed for 3 business parks funded with EU Push Pull funding including a programme
Further info
Overview of the context for the permanent measures selected above.
• The Nottingham urban area has benefited from a significant level of capital and revenue investment over the past 4 years including the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, Green Bus Fund and Local Growth Fund and a number of significant projects have reached fruition in 2015 including:
• Opening of NET Phase Two Tram expansion
• Investment in electric bus fleets and charging infrastructure with 45 electric vehicles in operation on our linkbus network (the largest electric bus fleet in the UK)
• Development of the Citycard smartcard integrated ticketing and retail network which has achieved ITSO compliance across all public transport operators in the urban area to become ITSO compliant; launch of a full
• Suite of Kangaroo multi-operator ticketing variants, provision of a Jobseeker Citycard half-price Kangaroo offer for travel on bus, tram and local rail to address barrier to accesing work and training opportunities and a ticket retail network of 38 on-street ticket (to be extended to 150 in 2016) machines and 140 Payzone points at retail outlets. The Citycard also acts as the Car Club membership card and provides access to Citycard Cycle hire and cycle parking facilities. There are currently 400,000 Citycards in circulation.
• Delivery of an effective community behaviour change programme through a network of innovative Community Smarter Travel Hubs.
• Significant investment and high level political commitment to in making Nottingham a Cycling City in terms of securing a £6.1million capital investment programme through the Local Growth Fund and delivery of a wide range of cycle promotion and support services to get more people cycling more often through projects in communities, schools, colleges and universities and support services through the LSTF programme
The permanent measures selected above for promotion in EMW 2015 represent a taster of the wide range activity and investment to support sustainable travel behaviour and development of integrated transport network taking place in the Nottingham urban area.

Car-free day Car-free day

Nottingham carries out a Car-free day 2015 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.