Malmö and Tallinn towards sustainable transport

Within the project Civitas SMILE the cities of Malmö, Sweden, and Tallinn, Estonia, are cooperating to take advantage of each others experiences.

The Civitas SMILE project is focusing on sustainable transports and urban mobility in six European cities. In Tallinn the main focus will be on improving the public transport, for example by installing a bus priority system. In Malmö several measures will take place within Civitas SMILE. Public transport is one of the focus areas with measures on traffic planning tools, improved security on buses and bus prioritization in all intersections where the buses runs in Malmö.

Other measures that will take place in Malmö are mobility management measures promoting sustainable transports towards the public. Some of the mobility management campaigns will also target local companies and municipal employees. One of the mobility management campaigns that already has taken place focused on new inhabitants of Malmö. Within the Civitas SMILE project Tallinn will follow a few of Malmö's measures closely. The idea, that has been called "the Training Model", aims at letting Tallinn study focus projects on mobility management and public transports in Malmö and afterwards exploiting the knowledge.

In the end of "the Training Model" Tallinn will produce a report where implementation possibilities of the new experiences have been listed.