A sequence of professional workshops on the way forward for public transport and the draft of a technique for the discount of fuel emissions have been organized in Nicosia between November 2021 -February 2022.
The workshops have been organized by College School London (UCL), AECOM (a transport consulting firm) and the Cyprus College of Know-how.
A press launch despatched to Cyprus Information Company by the British Excessive Fee, which supported the workshops, says that the initiative was taken based mostly on the newest environmental statistics, printed in Eurostat, in response to which Cyprus, is the nation with the third smallest inhabitants within the European Union (EU), nevertheless has the third highest share of buy of personal autos (645 vehicles per 1000 inhabitants) and holds the sixth highest place within the EU emissions (> 10 tons “per capita emissions in 2019).
The workshops befell within the framework of the United Nations Convention on Local weather Change (COP26) final November. Matters lined, inter alia, the city mobility of the longer term and the event of a technique to draw residents to sustainable transport.
The contributors agreed that altering the authorized framework associated to move, the training system and mission funding priorities is crucial for the success of a imaginative and prescient for sustainable mobility. The outcomes can be forwarded to the related providers and may very well be used as a information for the event of a extra complete motion plan.
The workshops have been led by Professor Nick Tyler of UCL and Dr. Xenia Karekla of AECOM.
Specialists in sustainable city mobility and the event of mobility methods. Dr. Stelios Yiatros and Dr. Alexandros Charalambides from CUT, different specialists within the implementation of progressive strategies in engineering and within the improvement of coverage frameworks centered on local weather change, additionally attended.
(CNA)