EcoMobility Days 2016

The EcoMobility Days combines the main elements that the Alliance offers its members, supporting them in enhancing sustainable mobility, good practice exchanges, tools and methodology trainings and offering a space for high-level discussions on the future of urban mobility.

From 16 to 20 October in Quito, Ecuador, the EcoMobility Days gathered local representatives, change-makers from the public and the private sectors, and urban mobility enthusiasts.

In total, over 60 speakers from more than 25 countries exchanged practices, visions of the future of urban mobility and concrete tools and methodology during an intense 5-day program attended by over 250 participants.

The EcoMobility days was organized by the EcoMobility Alliance, with support from partners such as FIA Foundation, EUROCLIMA and various other organizations working in the area of urban mobility. EcoMobility Days is a part of the technical workshop series of the EcoMobility Alliance and an effort to equip local governments to implement the New Urban Agenda, which was also being discussed at the UN’s Habitat III conference held during the same time in Quito, Ecuador.

All throughout the five days, more than 15 cities across the world presented their efforts in terms of sustainable urban mobility. The great number of presentations represented the diversity of challenges and the solutions local governments intend to overcome these challenges.

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Presentations

Welcome and introduction

Alliance Cities efforts on sustainable urban mobility

Financing sustainable urban mobility and implementing mobility within the Sustainable Development Goals

Official 2016 global smart MobiPrize award ceremony

  • Federico Gutiérrez, Mayor of Medellín, (Enterprising City MobiPrize Winner Partner: ICLEI EcoMobility Alliance)
  • Devin DeVries, Where Is My Transport (Global Grand Mobi Prize Winner. Partner: Ford Motor Company)
  • Chetan Temkar (Mobi-X India MobiPrize Winner. Partner: Ford Motor Company, Institute for Competitiveness, India)
  • Lauren Flanagan, Current Motor (Michigan MobiPrize Winner. Partner: NextEnergy)

Discussion and conclusion – Santhosh Kodukula, EcoMobility Program Manager, ICLEI

Site visit La Floresta neighbourhood to visit Habitat Village mobility projects with BYD buses

Welcome

City efforts on sustainable urban mobility

  • State of Santa Catarina – PLAMUS: the first Metropolitan Region Plan for Sustainable Mobility  in Brazil – Guilherme Medeiros, Project Manager of Florianopolis Metropolitan Region, Santa Catarina State Government
  • WWF and sustainable mobility in AfricaLouise Scholtz, Manager, Energy and Urban Futures, Policy & Futures Unit and Emelie Kärre, Program manager Sustainable Cities, WWF
  • San Miguel de Allende Marco Antonio Rodriguez, Head of transport,  San Miguel de Allende

Discussion

SMART Multi-Modal Systems Mapping Session – Susan Zielinski, Managing Director, SMART at the University of Michigan

  • Part one: the emerging mobility contexts (including global examples of how urban innovators are marrying enabling technologies with new business and economic development models, new integrated policy  approaches, and new and positive narratives to accelerate the sustainable supply of connected and sustainable mobility in cities)
  • Part two: mapping and implementing mobility-as-a-service: Hands on workshop on realizing connected multi-modal transport systems with people, the city, and the economy at the core –  a practical approach for urban leaders
  • Emerging eco-mobility enterprises. The Global Landscape from a social investor’s perspective. David Zipper, 1776.

Lunch

Mapping and Solution Session

Report Backs

Wrap up and next steps

2016 Global MobiPrize winners and smart enterprise leaders explore how to transform the new mobility enterprise space to accelerate sustainable mobility globally

Every two years, SMART at the University of Michigan partners to bestow the Global SMART MobiPrize on innovative transportation-related ventures, and on cities, states, and national governments that are investing in New Mobility innovation, enterprise, and economic development.  This session brings together leaders in the global mobility venture space with winners of the 2016 Global SMART MobiPrize to focus on issues and opportunities related to New Mobility innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development.

  • Introduction (ICLEI)
  • About Mobi Prize and Platform (Susan Zelinski)
  • Presentations by MedellinViviana Tobon, Metropolitan Area’s Mobility Director  and Luz Dary Botero, Planning Director,  Metro de Medellín.
  • Lively panel

Panelists:

  • Devin DeVries, Where Is My Transport (Global Grand Mobi Prize Winner. Partner: Ford Motor Company)
  • Viviana Tobon, Metropolitan Area’s Mobility Director  and Luz Dary Botero, Metro de Medellín’s Planning Director. City of Quito (Enterprising City MobiPrize Winner Partners: ICLEI EcoMobility Alliance)
  • Chetan Temkar (Mobi-X India MobiPrize Winner. Partner: Ford Motor Company, Institute for Competitiveness, India)
  • Lauren Flanagan, Current Motor (Michigan MobiPrize Winner. Partner: NextEnergy)
  • David Zipper,  Managing Director, Cities and Mobility Incubator  1776
  • Jeffrey Nolish, Detroit Transportation Fellow.

Opening plenary: Future of urban mobility

  • Monika Zimmermann, Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI
  • Tania Rödiger-Vorwerk, Deputy Director-General, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) 
  • Sheila Watson, Deputy Director, FIA Foundation
  • Johannes Karremans Director of Technical Assistance, EUROCLIMA Program, Brussels, Belgium

Session: Clean vehicles and clean air in cities

Sustainable public transport in Latin American cities

Session: Safe and Healthy Routes to school. Global Initiative for Child Health and Mobility (CHMI)

Welcome and introduction of the day – Santhosh Kodukula, EcoMobility Program Manager, ICLEI

Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

Active Mobility in our cities

Closing of the EcoMobility Days

Get some impressions

EcoMobility Days 2016 Report

EcoMobility Days 2016 Report

We have summarised the EcoMobility Days in this report where we wish to convey the innovation and enthusiasm that emerged throughout the event. Cities demonstrated during these five days their great commitment to ecomobility. Alliance cities and local governments from across the world presented their efforts delivering sustainable urban mobility in their specific context.

Participants of the EcoMobility Days 2016 explored the challenges to finance sustainable urban mobility and implement mobility in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. A great number of critical topics were covered during the conference, including clean vehicles and clean air in cities, as well as safe and healthy routes to school. Finally, taking advantage of the great attendance of the conference by Latin American cities, participants also had the opportunity to hear from specific ecomobility efforts in these cities on topics such as active mobility and public transport.