30.12.2022
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 498/21
Future-proof urban mobility 39. stresses that while new technological solutions play an important role in making cities more liveable, existing technology such as electric (cargo) bikes or electric (trolley-) buses, trams and trains should be the backbone when aiming for zero-emission freight and passenger transport;
40. emphasises the importance of accelerating progress towards integrated ticketing across all public transport modes; calls on the Commission to envisage the development of a standardised EU app, under a common rule, in order to facilitate access in cities across the EU and promote the use of public transport, positively impacting both rail tourism and commuting;
41. calls for close and early cooperation with LRAs on the potential use of European Digital Identity Wallets, by transport operators and passengers, as signalled in the new UMF;
42. recalls that shared mobility is a solution to reduce traffic in cities and the problems associated to congestion, and its development should be encouraged;
43. points out that data collection is an important means for the planning of transport infrastructure and consequently all collected data should be made available for all relevant actors; while it is important to facilitate easy-to-use solutions including all-in-one mobile apps, data protection must also be ensured; a common and coordinated methodology for data collection that facilitates the exchange of good practices and the comparison of reliable mobility indicators needs to be implemented in the various regions;
44. emphasises the need to properly take into account the gender dimension when designing sustainable mobility policies, taking into account the specific needs of women and their additional vulnerability towards mobility poverty, as well as those of other collectives;
SUMPs as a key tool for decarbonisation of urban mobility 45. confirms the CoR’s support for the reinforced focus on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), in the context of the UMF and, as a mandatory requirement for the 400+ urban nodes defined under the proposed revision of the TEN-T Regulation.
However, cities/municipalities that have already developed plans that meet the requirements for SUMPs should be able to use those plans;
46. also supports the recommendation, that cities adopt SUMPs; however, stresses the need to draw up SUMPs that can be extended to areas with various municipalities that function as metropolitan areas or urban agglomerations;
47. welcomes the Commission’s intention to request Member States to implement long-term SUMP support programmes in order to help build capacity and implementation of SUMPs in compliance with EU SUMP guidelines and calls for mandatory close cooperation with LRAs in that context; calls on the Commission to work towards close cooperation between the envisaged SUMP national programme managers and representatives of local and regional authorities on the ground, and to monitor this cooperation in practice;
48. emphasises that to address the mobility transition in urban areas, it is critical for SUMPs to efficiently cover functional areas as a whole; calls on the Commission to consider ways of incentivising improved connectivity and access to mobility services in suburban, peri-urban and surrounding rural areas;
49. welcomes the announced streamlined set of indicators and benchmarking tools scheduled to be published by the end of 2022, as well as the planned CEF Programme Support Action to support TEN-T urban nodes in this area.
However, it is important to ensure that the development and monitoring of indicators does not result in an excessive workload for cities/municipalities;