FastTrack will deliver climate-resilient urban, peri-urban and rural areas through the deployment of sustainable mobility innovations across 24 local areas, involving 20 local authority project affiliates, and 4 ambassadorial partners. FastTrack presents a suite of interlinking methods that provide local authorities with opportunities to learn from the best, capturing and presenting the experiences of those who have successfully accelerated transition. FastTrack’s twin-track core learning programme includes five separate FastTrack Capacity Building Weeks over 24 months: 1. Deep learning and exchange within the consortium, across four topic-based clusters guided by interests expressed by our 24 authorities. Each event will be led by an Ambassador (from Antwerp, Bologna, Budapest or Stockholm), supported by technical partners (WP2) 2. Meet the FastTrackers events, where 24 authorities will be introduced to skills and learning on cross-cutting topics (such as data, funding and governance) and will develop innovations with insights and inputs from external stakeholders recruited through a FastTrack database (including innovation networks, projects, funders, and end-users) (WP3) This programme will be informed by a rapid, intense review of innovation and exchange practices (WP1). An internal, competitive programme will fund small-scale “springboard studies”, rewarding outstanding innovation ideas with the most widespread internal interest and greatest potential for applicability and replicability across the EU. In culmination, programme pillars will be gathered in a performance management activity to oversee 24 deployment plans, as authorities rapidly refine, focus and develop innovations (WP4). Exploitable recommendations for process, and new solutions, technologies and approaches, will be supported by a further outreach phase, giving extra opportunity for on-the-ground deployment to be reflected in FastTrack’s final recommendations and results.

HANDSHAKE supports the effective take up of the integrated cycling solutions successfully developed by Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Munich, our Cycling Capitals and world-renowned cycling front runners, to our 10 highly committed Future Cycling Capitals, Bordeaux Metropole, Bruges, Cadiz, Dublin, Helsinki, Krakow, Greater Manchester, Riga, Rome and Turin. Our partner cities are combined in a composite working environment in which diverse geographical contexts, socio-economic conditions and planning cultures work toward the same goals, that is, delivering the desired cycling change. The project believes that effective transfer can happen only in the presence of: i) state-of-art body of knowledge on cycling policy and solutions; ii) sustaining transition processes; iii) motivating and supporting forms of mentorship. In HANDSHAKE this is ensured by the presence of 3 cycling planning champions, the employment of highly innovative methods brought together into a supportive and novel transfer cycle (including Bikenomics, Immersive Study Tours and Transition Management), and a mentorship programme that takes by the hand each participating city. The gathered team will cooperate to reach a number of strategic objectives: i) Inspire the creation or refinement of holistic cycling visions and concrete transfer approaches; ii) Foster the adoption of a multidisciplinary planning culture to empower the project process and consolidate future cycling policies and investments; iii) allow cycling to become a key element of urban transport; iv) Improve cycling modal share and safety; v) Leverage the potential of cycling as a critical congestion relief tool; vi) Leverage cycling to improve public health; vii) Foster economic growth. HANDSHAKE expects to improve cycling attractiveness by +52% and competitiveness by 17%, shift ca. 60.000 people to cycling with +34% in frequency of cycling use, 37,5% in accidents, traffic levels lowered by 6,34%, and CO2 savings of -3.706.000 kg CO2/year.

Parking management should be an important part of sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP) but unfortunately, it is one the most underdeveloped segments. Most EU member states lack national level policy and guidance on parking. PARK4SUMP aims to change this, because good parking management has proved to be of utmost importance. It frees the public space, supports local businesses, reduces search travel, generates revenue, increases safety, supports urban planning and can make cities more attractive. The general concept is to take the very best parking management examples, contexts and expertise in Europe, learn and profit from these, and transfer them on a large scale and in the best way possible to new cities . This covers raising awareness and gaining acceptance among relevant stakeholders; building capacity, particularly among cities that have difficulty in picking up such policies; stimulating further innovation; and achieving wide roll-out and transferability. Park4SUMP will work on traffic and travel avoidance; it will support less car dependent lifestyles and put into practise innovations in planning and location policy. It will also optimise the use of existing infrastructure. Furthermore the modal shift towards more efficient modes like walking, cycling and public transport will be encouraged. Convincing arguments to incorporate parking management can be given : it has low costs, it pays for itself, it delivers money, it is easy to implement and to modify and it can be done in incremental steps. The main expected impact will be cities with strongly improved parking policies that are creatively used to improve the quality of life and business in cities and develop the cities in a more sustainable way. Park4SUMP aims to establish parking management as an essential part of SUMPS of its leading, follower and external follower cities. Park4SUMP will deliver behaviour change whilst generating revenue.

The project SAFETY TUNES AND SOCIAL SKILLS IN TRAFFIC develops and implements an awareness-raising methodology to meet the high-risk target group of young drivers and co-drivers educated by lower level. This methodology includes social skills and competences in traffic, social-art, peer-education, emotion and social media to reach a new generation of young drivers. The aim of SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL is to reduce severe accidents caused by young people on European roads to avoid young people’s death as well as accident drivers with poor future perspectives. Road accidents are the most frequent cause of death in the age group from 15-24 years. Youngsters between the ages of 15-17 years start to learn autonomy, and more particularly gain access to different means of transport, notably to driving motorized vehicles. In the year 2014 631 young people between 15-17 years died on European Roads [18]. In general young people from 18-24 years are far more likely to be victim in road accidents than people in any other age group worldwide. More than 57,000 people between 18-24 years were killed in road accidents in the EU within the decade 2006-2014, close to a fifth of all road fatalities in those countries (17%). Results of the EU project “Close-to”. in which 125 young accident drivers (18-24) in Austria were analyzed, show that 90% of these drivers are male and registered in vocational education. A cross connection between young people educated on lower level and unsafe driving behavior and a higher accident rate can thus be shown. 13% of these young accident drivers have lost their job after the punishment and found it very hard to find a new job after serving their sentence. The Project SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL increased awareness of young people for a responsible and social behavior in traffic by including social skills and competences into road safety prevention work. A joint experience and knowledge base between the Belgian Partner Mobiel 21 and the Austrian partner FGM-AMOR regarding creative and active road safety work with youth optimized the effect on youth. 103 young people aged 13 -24 have been involved directly in innovative, creative and active prevention workshops in which road safety related messages were created through different types of artistic forms (videos, raps, and posters). These messages have been disseminated via social media and 3.277 young people have been reached indirectly through a compact social media strategy. This kind of creating social art focuses on active involvement of participants: young people have to deal with social skills in road safety topics in an interactive and creative way. The workshops in Austria and Belgium have been implemented by young youth workers and young artists in youth centers, vocational and secondary schools. In summary, the SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL methodology combines a peer approach, an emotive know-how transfer and social-art with social skills in road safety. At the end of the project, 9 workshops have been implemented, 4 videos and 1 rap song have been produced, 103 young people have been involved in the workshops. After the workshops 79% of them stated that they will be more careful on the roads in future. 3.277 young people have been reached throuth social media and are now aware of the importance of social skills in traffic. Consequently the desired impact of the project at national and European level is to decrease fatalities of youth within SAFETY TUNES SOCIAL regions from 2017 on.The videos are uploaded on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzqkFdSZMb3WBozbSh_5cow?view_as=subscriberPictures and videos are available on Facdbook: https://www.facebook.com/Wirfahrnab/

PROSPERITY will: 1. Produce a culture shift in terms of environment for SUMPs in member states and in the organisational culture of transport planning in city authorities. 2. Get ministries and national agencies to play a national leading role on SUMPs, as in many member states these are the organisations from which cities take their main direction; where ministries are already playing this role, to support and strengthen their approach. 3. To provide mechanisms and tools for Ministries to take this lead role. 4. Analyse clearly the problems of (lack of) take-up of SUMPs – to understand from cities themselves why they are not taken up and then to help cities to address these barriers. 5. Extend the existing 25-county EU-SUMP-network with at least two more countries 6. Get more cities to take up effective high quality SUMPs – through cities’ involvement in the project and indirectly through more cities hearing about SUMPs in their country. 7. Ensure that these SUMPs contain and will lead to implementation of a broad range of innovative sustainable transport measures. 8. Build cities’ capacity to develop and implement SUMPs that genuinely reflect the spirit of the EU SUMP Guidelines, rather than being mandatory documents to fulfil a requirement linked to major transport infrastructure. 9. Deliver a measurable impact. The core concept of PROSPERITY is bringing ministries into the project, which will significantly enhance the visibility of the project at the national level and therefore increase numbers of cities active on SUMPs. Thus PROSPERITY will ensure that more cities commit to SUMPs that are in line with the EU SUMP Guidelines and that include a broad range of innovative measures. This will generate a high leverage factor, especially in regions and cities where take up is so far low and the impacts from transport are severe – therefore the majority of PROSPERITY activities is in such regions and cities - thus in southern, central-eastern and eastern Europe.