Tosca Project

Co-ordinator of the Car Free Cities network, is responsible for the overall management of the Car Free Cities office. This includes regularly liasing with member cities, supporting the work of the network's Management Committee and the external relations of the office.

She has relevant experience in managing projects supported by different European programmes (mainly within DG TREN and Environment). Also, she has developed relevant experience in organising conferences and thematic seminars and workshops, as well as in implementing good practice and project results dissemination activities.

In her previous position, as Project Manager at CERRM (European Centre for Restructuring and Development) she was responsible for the development and management of several European projects, including in PHARE countries.

Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, situated in the North East of Spain. It is a city of over 1,600,000 inhabitants and covers an area of 99.07 km2. Moreover, it is the core of a large metropolitan area of over 4.2 million inhabitants and a dynamic economic and cultural centre.

Barcelona has important traffic problems, where the high number of private cars has induced a decreased in the citizens’ quality of life. Nowadays, in the city of Barcelona they are carried out 6 million trips approximately a day, of which about 4 millions are to internal level and 2 millions to internal-external level. In the modal split of the internal trips the public transport and on foot prevail with a 38 and 37% respectively, being in third place the private transport with 25%. On the other hand, of the analysis of the internal-external trips it comes off a considerable use of the automobile, arriving to the figure of 65% of the total of the carried out trips, in opposition of 31% in public transportation.

In order to reduce the negative effects produced by the use of the private car and promote sustainable mobility, the Barcelona City Council wants to develop new sustainable political actions using a direct management on the real demand. According to this new sustainable framework, Barcelona has started two projects related to the Car-Sharing. In one hand, there is the purpose to develop a global Car-Sharing project in Barcelona which main aim is to create a Car-Sharing network in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region. On the other hand, there is another more specific project that involves the UPC area (Polytechnical University of Catalonia) where really exists problems of traffic since the 52% of the people use the private car as their mode of transport and there is not enough car parks.

Furthermore, there is a serious political commitment to develop a Car-Sharing network in the Municipal Action Programme 2000-2003, in the section of Security and Mobility Commission.

Both projects are promoted by the Barcelona City Council and are supported by the Metropolitan Transport Authority (TMB), the UPC and the Association for the Promotion of Public Transport (APTP).

The Metropolitan Transport Company of Barcelona (TMB) is the main public transport managing company in the metropolitan area. It serves the city of Barcelona and various municipalities in its area of influence through two transport networks (surface and underground) that complement each other and the other transport companies that operate in this area. One of its main goals consists on promoting all the actions related to achieve a sustainable mobility.

The Association for the Promotion of Public Transport (APTP) is a non-governmental organization which concentrates all its efforts to promote and develop a more sustainable mobility in Barcelona. This association publishes the magazine ‘Mobilitat Sostenible i Segura’ and is member of the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) and has promoted the Car Free Day from 1999.

CVs of the key persons involved in the project

Barcelona City Council

Imma Mayol Beltran

Born in 1958. Psychologist. Member of the Psychology College of Catalonia. He has worked in the public administration such as the Barcelona City Council, in the Social Services (1981) and in the Youthful Area (1982-1987), and in the IGIA (Research and Training Consultant in social psychology and health promotion) as the Director (1984-1989).

Affiliated to the Illes Balears Communist Party (1976-1978) and to the United Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) from 1978. She is member of Coalition of ‘Iniciativa per Catalunya’ from its foundation. From 1992 to 1999 she has been member of the Catalonia Parliament.

Nowadays she is the Fourth Deputy Major of Barcelona and Councillor-President of the Commission on Urban Sustainability and Ecology. Moreover, she is President of the Municipal Institute of Public Health and President of the Municipal Institute of Parks and Gardens.

Txema Castiella Viu

Born in 1958. Catalan Philologist. He is qualified in Administration Management by ESADE and has realised a Political Science Master. Since 1983, he has been civil servant in the Barcelona City Council as a High Educational Technician. From 1983 to 1987 he has been responsible of Youthful Tourism, from 1988 to 1991, head of Civic Participation, and from 1992 to 1999, responsible of promotion and studies of Personal Services.

Since 1999 he is Director of Environmental Education and Participation. He is also Secretary of the Environment and Sustainable Town Council which promotes the Barcelona ‘Agenda 21’.

Metropolitan Transport Company of Barcelona (TMB)

Manel Villalante Llauradó

Born in 1954. As a Industrial Engineer, he has developed his profession in activities relative to mobility, urbanism and transport at the Municipal Urbanism, Traffic and Transport services department of the City Council combined with lectures at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. From 1991 to 1997 he worked as Director of Transport and Traffic at the city Council, and from 1997 as Director of Projects and Infrastructure Planning at the City Council. Nowadays he is in charge of the Director of Studies and Planning of TMB (Transportes Metropolitanos de Barcelona), municipal company operator of Metro and Buses. Since 1996 he is also associate professor of Transport at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia where he lectures at the upper school of Civil Engineers the courses of Transport Planning and Economy. He is also Director of postgraduate courses of Mobility Planning and Management and participates as lector and rapporteur to several conferences at international level. He is author of several articles in different journals and publications.

Association for the Promotion of the Public Transport (APTP)

Pau Noy Serrano

Born in 1956. Industrial Engineer. From 1978 to 1989 he worked in the Transport Department of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and from 1989 to 1991 he was head of Transit and Transport Department in Sabadell Town Council. Since 1991 he is adviser to ‘Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds’ (political party) in the Metropolitan Transport Area on mobility and environment affairs.

Moreover, since 1995 he is member of the Board of directors of the Metropolitan Transport Company of Barcelona (TMB) and the Parking and Services Company of Barcelona (SMASSA). Since 1996 he is member of the advisory board for the environment and sustainability in the City Council of Barcelona. Finally, he is one of the members and Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Public Transport (APTP) since 1993.

Bucharest

Company profile

Regia Autonoma de Transport Bucuresti (R.A.T.B.) provides services of public interest, its main activity being that of passenger transport performed by trams, trolleybuses and buses, all over the capital and in the suburbs. R.A.T.B., a state shareholding company, was founded in December 1990 through a reorganisation of the old State company and has 85 years tradition in the activity of public urban transport.

It is directly dependent on the Municipality of Bucharest, being the city's only concessionaire of surface public transport. At the moment, the subvention for R.A.T.B. represents 65%.

The transport demand in Bucharest is estimated at 5,7 millions travels per day, 24.4% being travels by private transport means, 16% are taken over by underground and 51.4% by surface public transport provided by R.A.T.B.

The public transport network on the surface is circular - radial disposed and includes backbone routes that make the connection with the city centre, routes that bring people to the underground stations and routes that make the linking between residential districts.

R.A.T.B. as the biggest surface public transport company of Romania has an inventory fleet of 2202 vehicles, split in 629 tramways, 281 trolleybuses and 1292 buses.

The characteristics of R.A.T.B. network are: 638 kms (double way) - length of network, 180 lines, 710 km2 covered area, 2353 stops, 130 terminals.

R.A.T.B. is modernising all its structures according to the global development of the Romanian economy. R.A.T.B. intends to develop its business according to the European standard of business management. One of the goals of the company is to extend business and property development.

Florin DRAGOMIR, diplomat engineer, graduated the “Politehnica” University, Material Technology Faculty, is the Head of International Projects Department of RATB. Previously, he was the head of Marketing Department within RATB, where he made the first steps in marketing research organizing studies regarding the RATB image, quality of the services, the outputs helped mainly in taking the decisions of the managerial board. He was the technical coordinator in CAPTURE and DANTE projects under EU umbrella. He has experience in developing strategies in order to improve the company activity. He organized different meetings with foreign partners as valuable experience in project management such as the project implementation of the modern ticketing system on express buses, etc. He had also 10 years experience in research and design within petroleum field (API standards).

Liliana ANDREI is an automotive engineer, graduated of “Politehnica” University of Bucharest – Transports Faculty, Road Vehicle Division, with specialization in traffic engineering, road safety and special vehicles. She has been working in international environment - S.C. HOFMANN AUTOTECH S.R.L. (German - Romanian Company) - as technical advisor with responsibilities concerning motor car service equipment. After having promoted as product manager her tasks implied marketing studies in motor car service equipment; studies to homologate motor car service equipment; relation between company and I.N.M.L. (National Institute for Legal Metrology); competition studies. Since 1998, she has been working as marketing engineer to R.A.T.B. - Marketing Department, being involved in marketing research, including: customer surveys (Quality of public transport, Information in public transport); database organizing; surveys analysis; reports preparation. At present she is implicated in a large study about the implementation of AVL systems for R.A.T.B.

Lucia CRISTEA works as economical and administrative clerk to RATB, International Projects Department. She was an administrative officer of CAPTURE and DANTE projects financed by EU. She has experience in evaluation methodologies and tools used in assessment of strategic transport projects. She has a sound experience in organizing international for a, conferences, and special events with large international participation under EU patronage. Her professional experience includes the administration of specialized databases, translation of specialized transport documentation.

Participant Role	Participant number	Participant name	Participant short name	Country	Status*	Date enter project	Date exit project
CO	1	ATC Bologna	ATC	Italy	C	1	18
MB	2	Freie Hansestadt Bremen Der Senator Bau und Umwelt	FHB - SBU	Germany		1	18
MB	3	INVERS GmbH	INVERS	Germany		1	18
MB	4	Rupprecht Consult	Rupprecht Consult	Germany		1	18
MB	5	POLIS a.s.b.l.	POLIS	Belgium		1	18
MB	6	EUROCITIES ASBL	EUROCITIES	Belgium		1	18

City	Country
Strasbourg	France
Barcelona	Spain
Bucharest	Romania

Partner #	Partner	Partner role	Participant shortname
1	Azienda Trasporti Consorziali - Bologna (A.T.C)	CO	ATC

	VESTA Project (Thermie programme): optimisation of the public transport service by setting up a centralised network control system to manage the service in real time and to gather service data.
	CERERE Project (Thermie): creation of "on call" public transport services both on fixed and variable routes in low demand areas in order to rationalise the service and saving energy
	GAUDI Project (Drive programme): the participation of various European cities has widened the scope of work to include a number of highly important topics both in the area of public transport services and of general transport. The principle objectives of the project are experimental applications in the fields of automatic control of access to limited traffic zones, integrated fare management.
	MIRO Project: is related to GAUDI project in order to analyse the mobility demand.:
	FIESTA Project: follows GAUDI project to exploit the results obtained on automatic control of access to limited traffic zones.
	ANTARES Project (Thermie): the activities carried out within this programme aim to create the first modules for the global urban mobility management system. The system developed are: traffic light management for bus priority, variable message signs for private and public transport.
	Dissemination d'un systeme d'aide a l'information pour les usagers des transport en commun urbains (Thermie): the aim of this project is to develop an information software that allows the user to specify an origin (A) and a destination (B) and to obtain the best route to arrive from A to B using the bus.
	GALA - Global Access to local application
	EU-SPIRIT
	CENTAUR

Partner #	Partner	Partner role	Participant shortname
2	Senat für Bauen und Umwelt der Stadt Bremen	MB	Bremen

	Know-how of international carsharing conception and operation
	Contactless Smartcard Technology
	GSM Data- and Voice Communication
	System integration into standard cars
	Hardware development and embedded systems
	Programming of PC Carpool Management Software
	Internet-Reservation Software
	Customer Specific Database- and Application Programming
	COCOS – Universal All-In-One Car sharing Organisation System

	implementation support (especially in the areas of urban IT systems, transport and environment)
	socio-economic evaluation, strategic project validation
	strategy definition for sustainable regional innovation
	awareness raising and training
	market and policy studies
	project management support

	CARISMA-Telematics, which is investigating issues surrounding the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems based directly on cities’ and regions’ experiences, and
	CAPE, a project focused on increasing the awareness and knowledge of telematics-based solutions for transport and the environment problems, primarily of local authorities in Central and Eastern Europe.

	CARISMA-Transport, a concerted action focusing on easing the interconnection between local and long-distance transport networks and
	ELTIS, the European Local Transport Information Service, an on-line database and discussion forum on European local transport activities.