1. City of Graz
Gentle Mobility & Space for People

2. 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

5. Graz – some facts 270.000 inhabitants 183.000 employees
companies
daily commuters
4 universities with students
surface of 127 km²

6. 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

7. Space for People – from idea to realization

8. Space for People – from vision to reality

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

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

11. Bus Bahn Bim information
With 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
The „Door-to-door“ Information

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. New trams and new technical aquipment

16. GRAZ PT passenger information

17. Study visit in Graz / Graz Transport Company Transport Controll Centre

18. First Austrian Mobility Centre – Mobil Zentral
Since new dimension with CIVITAS trendsetter 2004

20. 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 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

21. 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 % of PT vehicles
Geidorfplatz

22. 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
7.500 cars

23. 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

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

25. Province of Styria – Investment in Commuter Train Service
Start 2007

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

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

28. Space for People

29. Space for People

30. Platz für Menschen Thank you for your attention

31. 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 Mail :

33. Experience with Hybrid bus and bus priority

34. GRAZ Fotopool