Participating towns and cities

Portugal Lisboa (Lisbon) , Portugal

Website:
www.lisboa.pt
Population:
507.220 inhabitants
Department:
Direção Municipal da Mobilidade

Participation 2016

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Lisboa (Lisbon) organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2016, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
16 September
Bike to Work - Street Action
Motivate and congratulate the participants of the bike to work to pass the site as well as any citizen who this morning to travel by bicycle to work, encouraging the use of bicycles as a means of transport
In Lisbon in electric vehicle
Promote the use of electric vehicles - cars, motorbikes and bicycles, and to make test drives

Seminar about Coexistence Areas" and Opening of a Coexistence zone in Passeio dos Fenícios
17 September
Night Solidarity Bike Ride "Cycle-a-Wish"
Biking in favor of Make-a-Wish that seeks to contribute to the realization of children's wishes and young people seriously ill
By Bicycle to the Market
The population is invited to shop in one of the Olivais parish markets, using the bicycle as a means of transport. It is intended to show that intelligent amobilidade promotes the strengthening of the local economy

20 September
Conference "Sustainable Mobility in Lisbon"
Aims to promote a multidisciplinary debate on structuring projects in development in the city as well as the mobility that is intended to Lisbon in order to make it a city more accessible, safe and friendly to all

22 september
Public Transport Day in Lisbon
Implementation of various initiatives to encourage the use of public transport with the support of the main public transport companies of the city

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Lisboa (Lisbon) 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
Pedestrianisation
Improvement of infrastructure (new foot bridges, pavements, road crossings, zebra crossings etc) implemented
Public transport services
Use of ecological vehicles for public transport fleets implemented
Traffic calming and access control scheme
Speed reduction programmes in zones near schools implemented
Accessibilities
Create the tactile pavements implemented
Removal of architectonic barriers implemented
New forms of vehicle use and ownership
Use of clean vehicles implemented
Mobility management
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

Lisboa (Lisbon) carries out a Car-free day 2016 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.