City of Graz Gentle Mobility & Space for People

Graz: • European Sustainable City Award 1996 • UNESCO World Heritage 1999 and 2010 • Cultural Capital City of Europe 2003 Hosting the CIVITAS Forum 2003 • Osmose Award – Biodiesel bus fleet / Toulouse 2006 • CIVITAS City of the Year 2008 Award Parking Measures 2010 City of Design 2011

Graz – some facts 270.000 inhabitants 183.000 employees 10.692 companies 136.000 daily commuters 4 universities with 40.000 students surface of 127 km²

historic“ traffic specials Gentle Mobility – an idea becomes a philosophy Platz für Menschen / Space for people – implementation and extension of pedestrian areas in the historic city centre 30/50 speed limit – 30 km/h speed limit for all residential areas in Graz – all over the city

Space for People – from idea to realization

Space for People – from vision to reality

Start 1994 in the area around Graz since March 1997 in the whole Region of Styria

Styrian Traffic Association / Geography / services 16.000 km2 association area 1,2 million inhabitants 535 municipalities till 2012 63 transport companies 500 lines 7.500 stops 13.500 connections/working day

Bus Bahn Bim information With www.busbahnbim.at you enter at home and plan your route ! Put in your start- and final destination address / the Door – to door information finds : the right stops and the right timetable. Additionaly describes a plan The exact way including walking to your final address – in the whole Province of Styria – the area of the Styrian Traffic Association www.busbahnbim.at The „Door-to-door“ Information

Public transport 98,2 mio. passengers ( tram 52,3 mio ) 3,2 mio. km tram- and 8,2 mio. km bus-mileage 70 trams und 134 buses 6 tramlines und 37 buslines linelength of tramnetwork 49 km linelength of busnetwork 343 km

Important „Gentle Mobility“ Projects • Better Public Transport Low floor buses and trams Passenger Information System PT priority Bus tangentiallines Ecological buses / Biodiesel Better interchange facilities

CIVITAS IT Measures Graz Passenger Information System Bus / Tram Priority Integrated Traffic Management BUS – BAHN – BIM online Info Handy Ticket Handy Parking Handy Traffic Information

New trams and new technical aquipment

GRAZ PT passenger information

Study visit in Graz / Graz Transport Company Transport Controll Centre

First Austrian Mobility Centre – Mobil Zentral Since 1997 - new dimension with CIVITAS trendsetter 2004

URBAN I: Wien / URBAN II: Wien / UPP elmas: Gran Canaria Vila do Conde Leon Granada Bilbao Bordeaux Besancon Turin Neapel Mailand Brindisi Alexandropolis West-Athen Brüssel Dublin Leicester Huddersfield (Kirklees) Randers Utrecht Bremerhaven Friedrichshain (Berlin) Dortmund Leipzig / CIVITAS trendsetter: Stockholm Lille Prag Pecs / Guidemaps: Madrid Ille-de-France Cologne Brighton Surrey Essex Bochum Saarbrücken Erfurt Prag Brno Lundby Gävle Maribor Panorama / Tecnoman: Wien Thessaloniki Kalkidiki Pieria Chemnitz-Zickau Pilzen Ostrava Wroklow Belgrad / URB-AL Cultura: Buenos Aires Gent Criciúma Erechim Vitoria Santiago-La Pintana Cuenca Bilbao Valladolid / PIMMS: Frankfurt Serres Bromley Treviso Almada Stockholm Terrassa URBACT chorus: Anderlecht Bastia Volos Cosenza Foggia Napoli Siracusa Belfast Krakau Vila do Conde Girona Ourense Toledo / URBACT Partners4action: Brüssel Kopenhagen Gera Chemnitz Liverpool Nottingham Lille Nicosia Riga Amsterdam Porto Budapest / URBACT citiz@move: Charleroi Sambreville La Louviere Brüssel Aarhus Aalborg Gera London Valencia Athen Cosenza Misterbianco Turin Siracusa Derry Sevilla Toledo Pecs / HistUrban: Kaufbeuren Regensburg Wismar Faenza Teramo Verona Salzburg Sanok Sopot Arad Oradea Pilzen / ASTUTE: London Dublin Siracusa Granada Budapest / SUGRE: Sofia Bremen Berlin Heidelberg Berkshire Lyon Thessaloniki Reykjavik Rom Turin Rotterdam Warszawa Almada Oeiras Bukarest Stockholm Bratislava Ljubljana Celje Madrid Budapest / Transpower: Görlitz Magnesia Halandri L'Aquila Skopje Groningen Sibiu Timisioara Niš CIVITAS Catalist: Brüssel Berlin Bremen Köln Bristol Nantes Toulouse Genua Rom Kaunas Rotterdam Krakau Bukarest Göteborg Stockholm Szentendre / URBACT II CityRegion.Net: München Châlons-en-Champagne Trikala Arezzo Częstochowa Kielce Oradea Zürich / URBACT II HerO: Regensburg Liverpool Poitiers Neapel Vilnius Valletta Lublin Sighisoara Valencia / Act4PPP: Berlin Erfurt Rostock Schwerin Frankfurt Venedig Asti Sopot Poznaň Bedzin Bratislava Ljubljana Ostrava / URBAN plus: Graz und 16 Umlandgemeinden / City Network Graz Maribor: Maribor RM Graz-GU / GoPedelec: Naples Utrecht Stuttgart Prag / City Regions: Leipzig RM Graz-GU Breslau Prag Turin Region Sachsen Böhmen Doloslaskie / RURBANCE: Milano Lombarda Region Grenoble Rhone Alpes Zurich Veneto Piemont Munich Allgäu Turin Ljubljana

PT Priority Geidorfplatz Objective: Delay zero Passage of trams and busses without stop on traffic lights Basis: Traffic management system Implementation Priorisation successful on 83 traffic light intersections goal is reachable by 70- 85 % of PT vehicles Geidorfplatz

Further „Gentle Mobility“ Projects: Blue Zone Parking / Green Zone Parking Since 1997 chargeable short term parking zones Private Controlling since 1991/ 2008 Since April 2004 „Eco-Parking“ Extension of blue parking zones from 8.500 to 14.300 7.500 cars

Eco – Parking / no hightec system but it works Petrol vehicles: Euro IV Norm <140g CO2 / km Diesel vehicles: Euro IV Norm <130gCO2/km +Particulate filter Gas vehicles: Euro IV Norm <140gCO2 / km

Better public transport - Extension of 3 tramlines Stand: April 2004

Province of Styria – Investment in Commuter Train Service Start 2007

Investment in PT Projects – ÖBB / Province of Styria / Graz Nahverkehrsdrehscheibe Hauptbahnhof

Modal Split – mode choice PT 19,9 / car-driver 35,7 / 9,5 / bike 16,1 / walking 18,8 (mobility survey 2008)

Space for People

Space for People

Platz für Menschen Thank you for your attention gerhard.ablasser@stadt.graz.at

Gerhard Ablasser City of Graz The Executive Office for Urban Planning, Development and Construction, European Programmes and International Cooperation Unit Europaplatz 20 / A 8020 Graz / Austria T ++43 316 872 3580 Mail : gerhard.ablasser@stadt.graz.at

Experience with Hybrid bus and bus priority

GRAZ Fotopool