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IVM-China in 2011: 2nd session of the “Better Mobility, Better Life” Prize, city workshops, new guests of the IVM-China academic chair...
Urban mobility is taking on increasingly diverse forms in China under the impact of changes in lifestyle and in types of urban organisation. In parallel, local government structures are beginning to introduce measures designed to control the ways in which mobility develops. IVM continues to support these developments in 2011 with the second session of the Better Mobility Better Life Prize, city workshops in Hangzhou, Nanking and Wuhan and the activities of the academic Chair.

2nd session of IVM’s “Better Mobility, Better Life” Prize in China
www.bettermobilitybetterlife.com
The jury for the second session of IVM’s “Better Mobility, Better Life” Prize meets in Beijing on September 25
In partnership with the Chinese Urban Planning Association, the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development’s Urban Transport Research Centre, and the journal Urban Transportation in China, IVM has launched the second session of the Better Mobility Better Life Prize. The international jury will meet in September 2011 on the occasion of the the Chinese Urban Planning Association’s annual meeting to assess the entry submissions. The official prize awards will take place in Wuhan next November during the annual meeting of the urban transportation planners.
A dedicated website has been set up for the occasion: www.bettermobilitybetterlife.com.

▪ Rules
▪ The first session of the Prize gave awards to a residential car pooling scheme in Wuhan, a self-service bicycle project in Shanghai and a shared parking solution in Ningbo.

The city workshops, Meetings in Hangzhou, July 14-15 2011
IVM-China brings together international and Chinese experts on the initiative of a city’s technical departments to explore a specific topic and project. This year, the first city workshop will be held in Hangzhou on the subject of parking. A tourist city south-east of Shanghai, Hangzhou is known for its imposing self-service bicycle network and, more widely, its commitment to urban mobility issues. It looks forward to receiving feedback from the city workshop on its parking scheme, which is currently in preparation. In 2004 and 2005, there were workshops on the route of the third orbital road around Wuhan, on revisions to Chongqing’s transportation plan and on the location of Canton’s high-speed train station .Find out more

▪ Articles and lectures by Patrick Carles::
▪ “Developing parking policy in Hangzhou”
▪ “Organising parking in a big city”

Beijing, September 24-26, 2011
Seminar on “travel surveys, mobility analysis and transport policy” at the University of Tsinghua
Organised by IVM-China and Tsinghua University’s Transport Engineering Institute
▪ Programme
▪ Lecture by Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, Chairman of IVM’s Science and Strategy Committee, Professor at the Paris Institute of Urban Planning, Paris-East University
"From travel surveys to policy appraisal"

The IVM-China Academic Chair Guests 2011
Patrick Carles, parking expert, founder and CEO of the firm Sareco - July 2011
IVM’s Academic Chair in China has invited figures from the world of urban transport as guest speakers in 2011. Patrick Carles presented his analysis of parking as a fundamental arm of urban mobility policy. He spoke in Shanghai, Hangzhou and in Ningbo to the winners of the 2010 Better Mobility Better Life Prize.

▪ The need to share parking spaces
▪ The desire for car ownership and the culture of private car use
▪ Car parking in cities

Romulo Orrico Filho, Professor in the Programa de Engenharia de Transportes/COPPE/Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil
▪ Lectures soon available online

Research programme on: “What is it that drives public action on urban mobility issues? The making of movement in global cities.”

The IVM-China Chair is also involved in the research programme on “What is it that drives public action on urban mobility issues? The making of movement in global cities.” In Beijing and Shanghai, research will be done on the foundations of the local transportation and mobility policies, student perceptions of future urban mobility and debates around case studies: transformation of Qianmen Avenue, congestion reduction measures, investment in the subway; development in subway station neighbourhoods, development of self-service bicycle schemes and street redesign projects for Shanghai. All about the research programme: www.movemaking.com

▪ Read the latest contributions on the collaborative platform www.movemaking.com

"Better Mobility, Better Life" Prize Award Ceremony
September 6-10, Shanghai Expo 2010
International mobility week

The winners of the "Better Mobility, Better Life" prize received their awards at Shanghai Expo 2010, in partnership with the Alsace Region's Pavilion.
The international jury selected the three winners from Shanghai, Wuhan and Ningbo, out of more than thirty entrants from different Chinese cities. These three mobility schemes, independently of their different areas of interest, have in common the fact that they offer a resource sharing solution based on a local community-based initiative, and that they are flexible and inexpensive to organise and operate.
All the winners, the winning schemes, the jury:
▪ Press pack

Winners

The car sharing scheme set up in the Changqing residential community in Wuhan

In 2009, the residents' committee for the Changqing district in Wuhan launched an original scheme: "neighbourhood car sharing". The scheme was set up in response to a survey into the reasons for the morning and evening gridlock in the district: 80% of cars had just one occupant. For residents to be able to share their cars with other people, a way had to be found to comply with legal rules preventing unlicensed vehicles from carrying passengers. In response, the residents' committee, with advice from experts, set up a system of regulation designed firstly to ensure quality of service by monitoring drivers and vehicles, and secondly to impose strict operating rules: car owners and passengers sign a contract guaranteeing a free service and shared liabilities in the event of an accident. All vehicles in the scheme are marked with an identifying sticker stating "neighbourhood car sharing". Since the scheme was set up, the residents' committee has received several dozen applications from car owners wanting to sign up, and the numbers are growing. An online forum has been created where neighbours can arrange car sharing. The committee is now working on improving the scheme to attract ever more car owners. The Changqing scheme has made waves, since other districts in Wuhan have decided to launch similar initiatives.

The self-service bicycle scheme set up by the bike manufacturer Forever
in the Minhang district and Zhangjiang high-tech Park in Shanghai

In 2008, the Forever Group, a long-standing manufacturer of bicycles, set up a bicycle rental scheme in partnership with organisations in the Shanghai suburbs: the management committee of the Zhangjiang high-tech business zone and the Minhang district municipal council. The aim is to provide a mobility service to compensate for often poor suburban public transport provision. Under the scheme, special bicycle parks are installed that can be accessed by people holding a card: there are 80 of these parks in Zhangjiang (1200 bicycles in all) and 170 in Minhang (6000 bicycles). Each park is managed by a central computer system. Cards are loaded with 100 credits: credits are deducted if a bicycle is used for more than two hours, but a one-point credit is added if the rental period is shorter. A survey conducted in Minhang shows that users of the service, mostly working people aged between 20 and 40, find it a useful mobility solution in their day-to-day lives. The Forever group is now looking to extend this service by approaching other local partners in Shanghai.

Provision of private public spaces for public use in Zhenhai district in Ningbo

The city of Ningbo has set up a scheme to provide free parking spaces at certain times of day, by allowing public access to private car parks. The local authorities are trying to improve the often difficult parking conditions by increasing the provision of free parking which, with 2500 spaces, now accounts for 80% of total public parking. This has a dual impact. Firstly, the new scheme is helping to make daytime private parking available to the public: in the Qingchuan district, for example, 100 parking spaces are available to workers in daytime, whilst in the evening 150 office parking spaces are open to local residents. Secondly, the new system makes it compulsory to include free public parking spaces in new real estate developments. In order to make the system work more effectively, a process of regulation has been introduced in partnership with different municipal departments, with the aim of increasing the supply of free parking and combating illegal parking. The local authorities are exploring improvements to the system, with a particular focus on providing information on available parking.
The three winning schemes offer targeted solutions that make no claim to resolve all the issues of urban mobility, but which play a complementary role in improving the effectiveness of existing mobility systems. Each is in some respect innovative in comparison with other experiments around the world. The jury expressed the hope that the authorities would look at these schemes with a view to developing and reproducing them with the necessary adaptations in other cities in China and around the world.

In partnership with Shanghai Expo 2010, the Society of Urban Planners of China and the University of Tongji, and with the backing of the Environment Ministry's Information and Communication Centre, the French embassy in China and PSA Peugeot Citroën China.

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2010 July 11-15, Lisbon
IVM is leading the special session "Understanding urban mobility in China" at the World Conference of Transportation Research (WCTR)

IVM China is running a special session of the World Conference of Transportation Research (WCTR) focusing on urban mobility in China, which will be attended by Pan Haixiao (Head of IVM-China, Professor at Tongji University), Lu Huapu (Tsinghua University), Xian Kai (Beijing Centre for Transportation Research) and Jean-François Doulet (University of Paris-Est Créteil). The main issues will be mobility practices and patterns and the emergence of mobility services in China.

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Guest of the academic chair:

November 2010
Martin Dijst, Professor at the University of Utrecht
guests for a lecture cycle on
"Mobility and information technologies"
■ in Shanghai, November 2010 at Tongji University

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Is China in the process of inventing the streets of tomorrow?
International seminar, March 2008, Tongji University
■ Download the program
■ Télécharger la synthèse, par Wang Yu