Participating towns and cities

ItalyPavia, Italy

Population:
72.000 inhabitants
Department:
Mobility, Sport and Trasport
Contact:
Donata Longhi
2, Piazza del Municipio - 27100 Pavia
(++39) 03823991
Pavia already registered 9x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015

Participation 2017

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Pavia organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2017, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
- New electrical bus lines called ELECTRA and PEGASO, to serve urban centre and parking spaces and involve all the citizens in sharing experimentation
- lebici festival: four day celebrations dedicated to bicycle that pull all people in sharing direction with meeting, conventions and bikes collecting rides in all the city, and a bike charity auction open in the storical municipality building Broletto, initiative realized in collaboration with FIAB, the main Italian ciclist association.
- Morpheus the night bus for students and all users, offers a susteinable way to move and live night in Pavia during all the EMW
- healt walk in the main Pavia's park called Vernavola invites citizens to walk 30 minutes every day to improve healt and friends, in collaboration with ATS the Pavia's healt agency.
- "Il Giretto d'Italia 2017": a national event to involve citizens to go to work or to go to school by bycicle and count the cyclist run in 21 september mornig to make annual statistics in collaboration with Legambiente, a main italian ecological association.
- "Bike to work" :Pavia is associated with the FIAB initiative to invite people to move in sustainable ways during 22 september

Permanent measures Permanent measures

Pavia implements 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)
A new bicycle lane was created in Pavia
Pedestrianisation
Create or enlarge pedestrian streets
during last year the main street called
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)
Traffic calming and access control scheme
New traffic regulations: traffic circulation and parking
Part of Garibaldi street is changed in one way street to allow the cicle lane realization and to reduce the traffic speed
Accessibilities
Create wheelchair ramps
In EMS a new wheelchair ramp was donated from Pavia's Lions club and installed to allow the access to Municipality's tourist office
Mobility management
Development of travel plans / mobility plans in consultation with local stakeholders
in the latest year the Sustainable Mobility Plan was processed and presented to stakeholders

Car-free day Car-free day

Pavia 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.

Zone opened to residents on Car-Free Day:
17 september 2017 Strada Nuova the main Pavia's street is closed to traffic