Participating towns and cities

PortugalViana do Castelo, Portugal

Website:
www.cm-viana-castelo.pt
Population:
39.000 inhabitants
Department:
Departamento de Gestão Territorial e Sustentabilidade

Participation 2009

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Viana do Castelo organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2009, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
1.Workshop “Air quality assess and monitor noise levels” at the Environment Interpretation Center for the children of the city schools to assess the quality of the air and the noise levels.
2.Evening talks about public transports and healthy sustainable mobility in a healthy city as the example of Viana do Castelo Healthy City at the Environment Interpretation Center.
3.Free travelling in the electrical buses around the Viana do Castelo´s historic centre.

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Viana do Castelo 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
Create or enlarge pedestrian streets implemented
Public transport services
Use of ecological vehicles for public transport fleets implemented
The development of accessible transport services for all implemented
Accessibilities
Create wheelchair ramps implemented
Lowering of pavements implemented
Elaboration of sound devices in traffic lights 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
Freight distribution
Use of clean vehicles implemented
Mobility management
Create systems for buses and walking trains implemented
Development of systems and equipment for measuring air quality in public places implemented
Further info
1.Creation of parking for bicycles in several places around the Viana do Castelo city.
2.Increase the extension of the cycling road through out the Viana do Castelo city.
3.Increase the accessibility of streets, public and private buildings;
4.Improve the information about public transports.