Participating towns and cities

Portugal Águeda (Agueda) , Portugal

Website:
https://www.cm-agueda.pt/pages/1
Population:
46.131 inhabitants
Department:
Divisão de Sustentabilidade, Turismo e Ação Climática

Participation 2017

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Águeda (Agueda) organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2017, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
Several awareness session with schools and other institutions interested in marking the mobility week are going to take place during this week, standing out the importance of soft mobility transport means.

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Águeda (Agueda) 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
Develop public bicycle hiring and sharing systems implemented
Improvement of bicycle facilities (parking, locks etc) implemented
Pedestrianisation
Extension or creation of new greenways implemented
Deffinition of new pedestrian trails for hiking
Public transport services
Use of ecological vehicles for public transport fleets implemented
Traffic calming and access control scheme
New traffic regulations: traffic circulation and parking implemented
Accessibilities
Create wheelchair ramps implemented
Lowering of pavements implemented
Enlargement of pavements implemented
Removal of architectonic barriers implemented
Create useful tool for people with reduced mobility implemented
New forms of vehicle use and ownership
Use of clean vehicles implemented
enlargement of the municipal automobile fleet with 12 new electric vehicles
Mobility management
Launch of awareness-raising campaigns implemented
Permanent access restriction to city centres implemented
Development of systems and equipment for measuring air quality in public places implemented

Car-free day Car-free day

Águeda (Agueda) 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.