Participating towns and cities

Italy Milano (Milan) , Italy

Website:
www.comune.milano.it
Population:
1.407.044 inhabitants
Department:
Assessorato Mobilità - AMAT Agenzia Mobilità Ambiente Territorio

Participation 2014

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Milano (Milan) organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2014, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
During the mobility week the public administration, helped by local associations, will close to traffic two streets: corso Buenos Aires (on September 18th) and via Muratori. Those streets will be the scenario of events about environment and sustainable mobility.

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Milano (Milan) 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
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
Elaboration of new residential areas implemented
New forms of vehicle use and ownership
Launch of online car-pooling and car-sharing schemes implemented
Mobility management
Launch of awareness-raising campaigns implemented
Elaboration of educational materials implemented
Further info
In the last year the administration created new pedestrian areas (15.000 square meters the biggest), new bike-saring stations (50 new station, more than 200 the overall city system) and a new one-way and free-floating car sharing system which has already 200.000 citizens registered.

Car-free day Car-free day

Milano (Milan) carries out a Car-free day 2014 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.