European Mobility Week
EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK is the European Commission’s flagship awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility. It promotes behavioural change in favour of active mobility, public transport, and other clean, intelligent transport solutions.
The main event takes place from 16-22 September each year, culminating in the popular Car-Free Day. Local authorities are encouraged to use the main week to try out innovative planning measures, promote new infrastructure and technologies, measure air quality, and get feedback from the public.
With more towns and cities joining every year, and with its huge media appeal, the campaign is widely recognised as a driving force towards sustainable urban mobility in Europe and beyond.
In 2024, EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK is all about ‘Shared public space’.
Shared public space brings many benefits to society. A place where people, transport modes and activities all have their own space is a place with more social equity, more road safety, less noise and air pollution, and a better quality of life.
TFI Smarter Travel promoted the campaign by issuing information packs to all Local Authorities. Workplace and Campus partners, along with relevant social media graphics. A quiz was issued to partners also.
More information can be found at:
Walktober
The Walktober step challenge is back to encourage walking on the commute and beyond.
It is open to staff and students of workplaces and third level campuses that are partners of the Smarter Travel programme.
You can find out more about Walktober and to check if your organisation or campus is participating visit: stepchallenge.ie
Once your organisation is registered, you can log in or register on the Active Travel Logger and either create or join a team and start counting your steps from October 1st to October 31st.
Best of luck to all the steppers this October!
Smarter Travel Student Awards
The Smarter Travel Student Awards are back and have reopened for registrations for lecturers and students.
The Smarter Travel Student Awards are open to all Smarter Travel Campus partners. Last year saw record participation and the awards is going from strength to strength each year. The Smarter Travel Student Awards invite students to develop a project that supports, facilitates and/or enables sustainable and/or active travel modes to, from, and on campus and beyond.
The Semester one deadline for entries is Monday December 8th, and semester two briefings will commence in February 2024.
More information can be found at smartertravelstudentawards.ie