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CIVITAS PLUS Sustainable mobility and social inclusion in Perugia - Italy Dr Laurie PICKUP Lucia Cristea Coimbra, Portugal Meeting VANGUARD?MODERN workshop on social inclusion Date 23/24° March 2012. Messages to remember from this presentation. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
CIVITAS PLUS
Sustainable mobility and social inclusion in Perugia - ItalyDr Laurie PICKUP
Lucia Cristea
Coimbra, Portugal
Meeting VANGUARD?MODERN workshop on social inclusion
Date 23/24° March 2012
Messages to remember from this presentation
• The mobility system developed in Perugia is innovative and is producing real changes in mobility behaviour, positive attitudes to sustainable mobility and significant latent change – European best practice.
• The transport system is designed and operates for the full social inclusion of its citizens and visitors, in harmony with the strategic plan for the city region and the SUMP. A small voluntary sector addresses some special mobility needs.
• The pricing system on public transport is heavily subsidised and is designed to favour a modal shift to public transport, with further mobility benefits to the young and old. There will be future pressure here.
• The mobility stakeholders have been reorganised to meet the challenges but there is less integration with social policy departments
• More needs to be done to understand the mobility issues faced by marginalised groups and the impacts that low mobility is having on their life style
Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2012
2. Where is Perugia?
UMBRIA REGION
92 Municipalities
Inhabitants: 843.359
Surface area: 63.156 km2
MUNICIPALITY OF PERUGIA Inhabitants: aprox. 160.000
Surface area: 450 km2
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3. Perugia is historic and steeped in culture
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Perugia – Urban growth
Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2011PERUGIA 1925
PERUGIA today
5. Who are the Perugini?
Perugia has a social composition and trends similar to many European cities:
• Balanced population
• High young adult population due to 2 universities
• A mixed working population serving a regional capital with some mixed light industry
• Increasing unemployment, particularly among younger persons
• Rapidly increasing minority of immigrants from Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America), many of whom comprise a growing under-class (not ghettoised) – and Western European pensioners in the provincial area
• A transient tourist population
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Population of Perugia – November 2011
Age group
Men Women Total
0-6 5789 (3%) 5266 (3%) 11055 (7%)
7-18 8858 (5%) 8454 (5%) 17312 (10%)
19-40 23838 (14%) 23914 (14%) 47752 (28%)
41-65 27688 (16%) 30776 (18%) 58464 (34%)
65+ 14531 (9%) 20298 (12%) 34829 (21%)
Total 80704 (48%) 88708 (52%) 169412 (100%)
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Perugia Population
Family size – 72,952 households (average 2.3 persons/HH)
38% - 1 person
24% - 2 persons18% - 3 persons (previously larger and thus ageing)
14% - 4 persons
6% - 5 or more persons
Immigrants – May 2011: 16,527 (10% of total population)
55% Eastern European states21% South America10% China and South East Asia14% AfricaNon-registered?No strong spatial clustering
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Social inclusion in Perugia
• Impact of the economic crisis (Household expenditure on mobility)
• Umbria not the most ‘excluded’ of Italian regions, but there do exist social issues in the city that the Comune are addressing:
- Excluded young people as a result of unemployment
- An under-class of unofficial migrants
- Rising crime rates associated with poverty (CBD)
- Insecurity
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Perceptions of city centre social decay
Citizen survey 2011 (and 2009) – visual perception:
• Drug takers – 46% (66%)
• Drug sellers – 55% (61%)
• Syringes – 27% (47%)
• Vandalism – 42% (43%)
• Loud disruptive behaviour – 31% (43%)
• Drunks – 22% (24%)
• Beggars – NDA (20%)
• Fighting – 13% (14%)
Not feeling secure in the city centre – 9% (23%)
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Perugia strategic plan 2003-2013
7 strategic lines:
• Improve regional accessibility
• Enhance enterprise, innovation
• and internationalisation
• Increase social inclusion, quality of life and security for citizens
- Priority 1: promote policies and actions for full inclusion (social solidarity)
- Priority 2: pre-school education (CIVITAS measure)
- Priority 3: support for the elderly (voluntary sector – AGRADU)
• Revitalise the historic city centre
• Reinforce cultural excellence
• Integrate environment, culture, sport and tourism
• Better regional integration of stakeholders
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Mobility planning in Perugia
Urban Mobility Plan 2008
• Promote the values of sustainable mobility
• Integrate stakeholders (UM and Task Force)
• Introduction of Mini-Metro
• Full integration of the bus network and escalator system
• Parking management and enforcement to be increased
• City centre enforcement to be
completed
• Traffic management and
information to be enhanced
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Car mobility in Perugia
• High car ownership
• Low car occupancy (1.18 persons per car)
• Manageable congestion levels
• Full urban traffic control system
• New systems for VMS information and real
time risk monitoring and signal priority
• Increasing costs since 2008 (motoring and parking)
• High impacts on low income car users
Acceptance of park and ride Latent desire for car pooling provision Less habitual choice of cars for trip making Desire to be ‘greener’
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Escalator and lift modes in the city
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CIVITAS Result Workshop 13th of September, 2011 Brussels Lucia Cristea
Perugia
Malmo, 30/09/2010
CIVITAS Result Workshop 13th of September, 2011 Brussels Lucia Cristea
Perugia
Medieval walls
Malmo, 30/09/2010RENAISSANCE 12/11/2008 Stefania Papa
Bus and rail provision
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How mode use has changed 2008-2012
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% Changes in attitudes to mobility 2008-2012 – car drivers
Top 2 quintiles 2009 2012
I behave in an environmentally
friendly way
83 89
My next car will be greener
67 61
I simply take the car every day
50 44
Choose daily which mode to use
26 50
Access to public transport in
residential choice
52 64
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% Changes in attitudes to mobility 2008-2012 – car drivers
Top 2 quintiles 2009 2012
Priority parking for green cars
42 51
Bus priority at junctions
28 43
Support the limited traffic zone (LTZ)
66 70
Parking fares are reasonable
14 8
Public transport is cheaper than cars
50 39
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Inclusive mobility policies
• Ability - Access to mobility modes and facilities
• Opportunity - Access to activities
- Physical
- Virtual
• Economic access
• Overcoming social and psychological barriers to access
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Access to mobility modes and facilities
• The Mini-Metro/ escalator /lift system is fully accessible
• Interchanges fully accessible
• Priority parking spaces and assistance for disabled in key locations
• Buses are clean fuel but not low floor access
• New trains have low floor access
• New navigable city centre routes for blind persons
• High penetration of internet access apart from among marginalised groups
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Access to activities
• Access to education is guaranteed through dedicated clean bus vehicles and regular services. School ‘rush hours’ are the primary congestion periods.
• Access to employment (locations/hours)
- Municipality, Provincia, Regione employees
- Two universities
- Access to light industrial and retail centres
- No specific mobility schemes for job search
- CIVITAS Internet measure on employment and professional ‘notice boards’
• Access to shopping and retail centres
- City centre (new market development)
- Periphery
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Economic access
• Heavily subsidised public transport for all (increasing patronage)
- UNICO Perugia (UP) ticket
- Monthly season tickets
- No daily ticket
- No concessions for disabled of working age, carers or job seekers
• Free and subsidised mobility for the young and old
• Free escalator/lift system
• Car costs increasing (running, insurance, maintenance etc.)
• Parking charges and enforcement increasing with the demand management policy
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Overcoming social and psychological barriers to access in Perugia
• ‘Trapped’ communities and marginalised groups.
• Prevents a normal level of engagement
• City centre limited traffic zone (LTZ) effective in improving crime management and safety perception
• Improvements to the safety and security of bus stop environments and interchanges, including Wi-Fi access
• City gradients remain an issue for the more frail pedestrians (fear of falling and injury)
• Privacy remains an important issue for car drivers
• Dependency - Reliance on extended family for mobility support
• Fear of discrimination among some immigrant communities
Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2012
Perugia – Urban growth
Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2011PERUGIA 1925
PERUGIA today
Messages to remember from this presentation
• The mobility system developed in Perugia is innovative and is producing real changes in mobility behaviour, positive attitudes to sustainable mobility and significant latent change – European best practice.
• The transport system is designed and operates for the full social inclusion of its citizens and visitors, in harmony with the strategic plan for the city region and the SUMP. A small voluntary sector addresses some special mobility needs.
• The pricing system on public transport is heavily subsidised and is designed to favour a modal shift to public transport, with further mobility benefits to the young and old. There will be future pressure here.
• The mobility stakeholders have been reorganised to meet the challenges but there is less integration with social policy departments
• More needs to be done to understand the mobility issues faced by marginalised groups and the impacts that low mobility is having on their life style
Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2012