Participating towns and cities

EstoniaTartu, Estonia

Website:
www.tartu.ee
Population:
97.852 inhabitants

Participation 2010

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Tartu organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2010, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
We will celebrate car free day (mobility week) this year 20-25 Sept.
Road Administration and police will organise bicycle exercises and we will open sustainable traffic city, where children can walk and ride by bicycle. Traffic city is opened Ülikooli street, where we have usually car traffic, but we changed that and we would like to look at, how it works.

We open middle of a city bicycle market, we are called different bicycle shops, everyone can find bicycle for yourself.
City give thousand bicycle backlights to people who will go to work by bicycle.

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Tartu 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
Improvement of bicycle facilities (parking, locks etc) implemented
Pedestrianisation
Improvement of infrastructure (new foot bridges, pavements, road crossings, zebra crossings etc) implemented
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
Traffic calming and access control scheme
Speed reduction programmes in zones near schools implemented
New traffic regulations: traffic circulation and parking implemented
Mobility management
Adoption of workplace travel plans implemented
Adoption of school travel plans implemented
Elaboration of educational materials implemented
Development of travel plans / mobility plans in consultation with local stakeholders implemented
Create systems for buses and walking trains implemented
Further info
We open new bicycle roads and stands and some one-way streets we will change for cyclists to both directions.

Car-free day Car-free day

Tartu carries out a Car-free day 2010 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.