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CIVITAS SUMPs-Up has launched a new report entitled “Standards for Developing a SUMP Action Plan”. It provides city planners with guidance on what to include in their action plans in terms of responsibilities, resources, stakeholder coordination, time plans, and funding sources.

The Ukraine is taking a step to improve pedestrian safety in the light of conflicts arising from car parking.

On Monday, the 21st of May 2018, Mayor of London Mr Sadiq Khan answered questions from London Assembly members on the subject of the just recently published Environmental Strategy of London.

The City of Amsterdam has introduced a list of measures that could be put in place to deal with the effects of mass tourism. Many of these concern mobility in the city’s historic centre.

German cities are striving for cleaner air. Now, the City of Hamburg is first in Germany to introduce urban vehicle access restrictions on diesel vehicles. Two road sections will soon be closed to older diesel cars and lorries.

The Juncker Commission is undertaking the third and final set of actions to modernise Europe's transport system. With the new initiatives that were published 17 May 2018, the Commission aims to ensure a smooth transition towards a mobility system which is safe, clean and connected & automated

CIVITAS PROSPERITY organises 4-days-national training sessions for practitioners and stakeholders free of charge in 10 European countries. The training sessions are tailor-made for each country tackling – based upon an analysis - the most wanted and needed topic areas

The City of Groningen will host of the 6th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (2019). The news was announced by Maja Bakran Marchich, deputy Director General of DG MOVE, during the closing plenary of the 5th SUMP conference.

The European Commissioner for transport, Violeta Bulc, opened this year’s SUMP conference on ‘Planning for multimodal cities’. Speaking via a video message, Bulc welcomed the attendees to Nicosia describing the conference as ‘maybe the most important annual conference on European urban mobility’.