Case studies

Nantes Métropole is involved in the Bike2Work project (2014-2017), whose objective is to promote commuting trips by bike by raising simultaneous awareness among employees and employers. 

Implementation of the CHUMS measures started in the industrial area of Craiova West following a history of carpooling projects that have been implemented in collaboration with RAT Craiova (local transportation company).

With about 3.5 m travellers passing through the railway station in Clermont-Ferrand in central France, it is undoubtedly the city’s most important transport hub. The city decided, however, that the improvement of its connections with other forms of transport was essential.

Walking is beneficial on many fronts. It is healthy, saves money and, by people choosing to use their feet rather than motorised transport, lowers emissions. In Porto over recent years, people have moved from the city centre to the suburbs, a change which has also altered their travel behaviour.

Four hundred committed car users in Halmstad, Sweden, got the opportunity to borrow an electric bike for a period of time during 2014 and 2015 through the municipality. Together, they cycled more than 180 000 km, and helped the city to avoid a lot of emissions, noise and traffic jams.

The traffic and urban planning approach in North Rhine-Westphalia, which has been orientated towards car use throughout the last decades, has reached its limits.  New mobility solutions and strategies are required to promote economic development and improve quality of life

Do your shopping by bike! Strange idea, or a viable solution for the future? It is, in any case, a solution offered by France's Ecomobilité Agency (EA) for 130 households in the Chambéry area since 2012.

Do your shopping by bike! Strange idea, or a viable solution for the future? It is, in any case, a solution offered by France's Ecomobilité Agency (EA) for 130 households in the Chambéry area since 2012.

Following the end of the European COMPRO project, the French cities of Nantes and Angers decided to jointly purchase several articulated hybrid buses. The cities together drafted common technical specifications and officially published the procurement tender in June 2011.

While Barcelona’s network is already one of the cleanest in Europe thanks to its hybrid and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses and the retrofitting of its diesel vehicles with particulate filters

Company bicycles used by employees to travel to work or during service trips are growing in popularity in Belgium. However, many employers still don’t know how to go about introducing such schemes into their businesses.

Within the PUMAS project, the City of Venice has developed a comprehensive strategy in order to make sustainable mobility an essential element of its urban and educational policy.
Its 'shared sustainable school mobility plan' includes the active involvement of parents and pupils

This video introduces an eye-in-the-sky augmented reality presentation of the actual geography of Galway City and where the best-fit sustainable transport solution can be plotted using Bus Rapid Transit or Light Rail Rapid Transit.

It has been some years now that in Italy citizens are taking initiatives aimed at sustainable mobility and urban regeneration.

Nantes Métropole is involved in the Bike2Work project which aims at promoting the choice of cycling for commuting trips.
In this context and parallel to the reception of Velocity in 2015, it has tested a new version of its support to local companies