Sustainable urban transport

This area of work seeks to define a strategic approach and coherent framework for integrating urban transport management and policies for land-use planning, environment and health. It also aims to create synergies with major international initiatives, notably those of WHO and the International Transport Forum (ITF).

A series of capacity-building events has been organized to share best practices in sustainable urban transport across different subregions of the WHO European Region. The workshops have focused on:

  • Smart urban mobility: the prospects for the modern information and transport technologies in order to improve security and quality of transport services (Kazan, Russian Federation, 2019)
  • Introduction of innovative green and healthy technical and technological solutions in road and urban passenger transport: global trends and opportunities (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2018)
  • THE PEP Relay race workshop in Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany 2017)
  • Sustainable transport planning – a modern perspective for the solution of transport problems in big cities and agglomerations (Vladivostok, Russian Federation, 2016)
  • International Klimaaktiv Mobil – THE PEP Relay Race Conference (Vienna, Austria, 2016)
  • Development of non-motorized modes of transport as an alternative to private vehicles. Adapting foreign experience in the Russian Federation – problems and solutions (Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, 2016)
  • Looking for Synergy: Integrating Transport, Urban Planning and the Use of Traffic Management Methods to Ensure Sustainable Mobility and Healthy Urban Environment (Irkutsk, Russian Federation, 2015)
  • Improvement of Sustainable Urban Mobility for Better Health and Environment: Move to Improve (Kaunas, Lithuania, 2014)
  • green and health-friendly sustainable mobility: focusing on urban central Asia (Kazakhstan, 2013);
  • sustainable development of urban transport: challenges and opportunities (Russian Federation, 2012);
  • working together for sustainable and healthy urban transport: a capacity-building workshop (Ukraine, 2011);
  • sustainable and healthy urban policies (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 2010);
  • sustainable and healthy urban transport: focusing on eastern and south eastern Europe, Caucasus and central Asia (Republic of Moldova, 2008);
  • sustainable urban transport and land-use planning: focusing on south Caucasus (Georgia, 2006);
  • implementing sustainable urban travel policies in the Commonwealth of Independent States (Russian Federation, 2004);
  • sustainable and healthy urban transport and planning (Cyprus, 2003).
International Transport Forum