On April 26, 2023, the All-Ukrainian Urban Mobility Forum began in Lviv. About 100 participants from different regions of Ukraine took part in the event.
The forum is held by the Department of Urban Mobility and Street Infrastructure of the Lviv City Council within the framework of the project "TUMIVolt - urban mobility from renewable energy sources" of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), financed by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. The NGO Vision Zero is also a co-organizer of the event. The purpose of the event is the exchange of knowledge, experience and the formation of further coordinated plans for the development of urban mobility. According to the results of the event, the appropriate resolution of the participants will be formed. Mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovyi spoke at the opening. He emphasized that Lviv has taken a new approach to the restoration of street infrastructure: not to repair the road, but to restore spaces. And the projects will be chosen exclusively based on the results of architectural competitions. According to this principle, the city will arrange the space on the street. Mykolaychuk near the rehabilitation center NEZLAMNI/ UNBROKEN. He also talked about the NEZLAMNA ecosystem of humanity, which is being built in Lviv today. And this system actually provides for the reconstruction of city locations from the point of view of accessibility and friendliness.
Source: Lviv City Council:
https://city-adm.lviv.ua/news/tourism/296236-u-lvovi-startuvav-vseukrainskyi-forum-miskoi-mobilnosti Photo: Roman Baluk
We have already written about the fact that from the beginning of 2023, the NGO "Vision Zero" began the de-Russification and modernization of the content in the Ukrainian "Wikipedia" on the topic of transport and mobility.
We consider this to be an important social mission, as currently Ukrainian-language articles are mostly literal translations of Russian versions, often with outdated information, photos, etc. We are currently working in several directions:
updating existing articles and
creating new ones that did not exist in Ukrainian, based on English-German articles. Updated articles:
New articles:
We will update this publication in accordance with the appearance of new and updated articles of the Ukrainian "Wikipedia". We invite you to follow, share with others and write to us if you know about the existence of articles without Ukrainian translation or those that need to be updated/created!
Brussels, March 30, 2023. NGO "Vision Zero" became a member of the European association "Transport & Environment" ("T&A") . This decision was made in Brussels at the annual meeting of "T&A" on March 30, 2023. Viktor Zagreba, the head of the board of the NGO "Vision Zero", made a short presentation of the organization, and after the vote, he thanked the members and the organization's secretariat for the positive decision.
Association "Transport & Environment" is a non-profit organization that has existed for over 30 years and is engaged in advocacy and promotion of reducing the impact of transport on the environment. The scope of the organization's attention includes the entire range of types of transport from private cars, trucks, shipping, aviation and railways. The strategic goal is the complete decarbonization of transport in Europe by 2050 and, as a result, the improvement of air quality and the environmental situation in general.
As of January 2023, the association included 52 organizations from 23 European countries. The main office is located in Brussels, and in addition there are also national offices in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Great Britain. "The joining of our organization to "Transport & Environment" is an important step for us, because it is a huge concentration of industry knowledge, experience, and an excellent network of organizations and people. EU countries have been on the difficult path of decarbonization of the transport industry for a long time. The process of acquiring Ukraine's membership in the EU means that this is also our way. We, as a public organization, are doing our part in European integration with this step. This step makes our organization a more competent and confident participant in the development of state policy and recovery plans for post-war Ukraine," Viktor commented on this event. Zagreb, chairman of the board of the NGO "Vision Zero".
Sustainable and smart mobility strategy - European transport on the way to the future" is a strategic document of the European Union, which is an overview of the existing problems with mobility in European cities, their impact on the quality of life, the environment. In general, it is about reducing CO2 emissions and dependence
from fossil fuels. The document was approved by the European Commission in Brussels on December 9, 2020. The strategy has a short- and long-term perspective. The planning horizon is up to 2050.
- At least 30 million zero-emission cars and 80,000 zero-emission trucks will be in operation by 2030.
- By 2050, almost all cars, vans, buses and new heavy vehicles will be zero-emission.
- Zero-emission ocean liners and zero-emission large aircraft will be ready to enter the market by 2030 and 2035, respectively.
The document envisages a number of significant changes in approaches to the production of various types of transport, bringing a large number of them to zero emissions. For example, the transition to
stricter emission standards for vehicles with internal combustion engines (Euro 7) and the increase of electrified sections of railways. In general, the course towards sustainable mobility also involves considerable changes in infrastructure facilities, an increase in the share of rail transport, "greening" of freight transport, a transition to sustainable modes of transport, etc. The authors propose a comprehensive set of measures to put the EU on the path to creating a sustainable, smart and sustainable mobility system of the future and to implement fundamental changes to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal. The document itself consists of 9 short and meaningful sections. We believe that this document is important in the context of the future post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. The proposed Ukrainian edition is
an unofficial translation of the original document , which was carried out by the efforts and at the initiative of the Ukrainian NGO "Vision Zero". We wanted it to become more accessible to a wider range of readers. Document:
" Sustainable and smart mobility strategy - European transport on the way to the future"
Source: Lviv City Council: https://city-adm.lviv.ua/news/tourism/296236-u-lvovi-startuvav-vseukrainskyi-forum-miskoi-mobilnosti Photo: Roman Baluk
