From Past to Present: Sustainable Transportation Practices in Graz

From Past to Present:
Sustainable Transportation Practices in Graz

Gudrun Uranitsch, City of Graz

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION 2011
6th to 8th April KOCAELI

Graz - focal point at the heart of Europe

Izmit Kocaeli


Graz - Some Awards we are proud…
• European Sustainable City Award 1996
• UNESCO World Heritage 1999 + 2010
• Cultural Capital City of Europe 2003
• O mo e Award Toulouse 2006
Osmose A d To lo e
• CIVITAS City of the Year 2008
• Austria‘s 1. Fair Trade City


Graz - Historical Heart


Graz - From Middle Age…


… to Renaissance…


…over Barock


… to Modern Architecture


“Friendly Alien“ – Museum of Modern Art


„Mur Island“ as an Attraction in Public Space


Graz is a Green City


Graz is a City for Cyclists


Graz is a City for Students –
4 Universities with 40.000 Young People


Graz – Some Facts
• 258 000 i h bit t - A growing city!
258.000 inhabitants i it !

• 183.000 employees

• 10.692 companies

• 136.000 daily commuters

• 3.7 trips per inhabitant & day

• 23,5 km on average spending 79 minutes in traffic

• 1.11 million trips are made every day in Graz


More Mobility Facts
Road network ~ 1 051 km
1.051
Commuters 170.000 (25.000 go out)
Motorways ~ 55 km
Priority streets (50 km/h) ~ 194 km
Non priority streets (30 km/h)
o p o y / ) ~ 80
802 km
Public Transport ~ 298 km
Tram (6 Lines) ~ 49 km
Bus (37 Lines) ~ 343 km
Bicycle Network ~ 118 km
Surface 127 km²
Pedestrian Zones ~ 6% of the central district


Public transport

• 101 mio. passengers ( tram 52,2 mio) per year

• 277.000 passengers per day
• 3,2 mio. km tram-mileage

• 8,2 mio. km bus-mileage

• 8 tramlines und 37 buslines

• 70 trams und 134 buses

• linelength of tramnetwork 49 km

• linelength of busnetwork 343 km


Modal Split – Modal choice (in trips):
Eco-friendly trips are g
y p growing
g

18,1 17,6 17,9 18,2
18 2 19,3
19 3 19,9
19 9 PT
ÖV

8,8 8,2 8,7 8,7 9,1 Car
MIV-MitfahrerIn
9,5
passengers

33,8 37,2 37,3 37,5 Car drivers
38,2 35,7 MIV-LenkerIn

8,3
11,7 12,5 14,2 14,1 16,1 Cycling
Fahrrad .

31,0
25,3 23,6 21,3 19,3 18,8 Walking
Zu Fuß

1982 1988 1991 1998 2004 2008


Historic Mobility Specials:
Why did Graz change to Gentle Mobility?
y g y
1. Problem of Smog because of the weather condition:
Inversion
2. First
2 Fi t ecologial t
l i l trends – f
d from car orientation
i t ti
to a city for people
3. A vice mayor‘s visions and power of persuasion

→ 1997: Graz introduces Tempo 30 which changed
the system and the perspective!
y p p

→ Tempo 30 in ALL residential areas all over the city

→ Space for people – Implementation and extension
of pedestrian areas in the historic city centre


Gentle Mobility becomes a Philosophy –
Mobility Strategies are p
y g part of City Development
y p


Mobility Strategies
• Mobility Policy Guidelines 2020 coordinated
with Regional Mobility Concept including goals reducing car traffic

• Sustainability & Priority for Gentle Mobility
y y y

• Graz is a short-trip-city: POI are reachable with
soft modes of transport

• Participation in transparent planing processes

• M bilit management & contracts with big „traffic generators“
Mobility t t t ith bi t ffi t “


Important Gentle Mobility Projects:
Better Public Transport
p
Low floor buses (100%) and trams

Past
Present


Important Gentle Mobility Projects:
Better Public Transport
p
Bus tangential lines
Ecological buses / Biodiesel Better interchange facilities (B & R)


Better Public Transport: Extension of 3 tramlines

Number 4, 5 and 6


Better Public Transport: PT passenger information


Online „Door-to-door“Information:
In the whole Province of Styria
y
• With www.busbahnbim.at you enter at home!
• Put in your start and final destination address
y
• Additionaly description of the detailed trip including walking
trip
• In the whole Province of Styria (1,2 Mio inhabitants)


1st Mobility Centre in Austria: Mobil Zentral
Personal & phone call information, sales & services around PT,
cycling and walking since 1997


Parking Management
• Since 1997: „Blue Parking Zones“: Chargeable short term parking zones

• 2009: Extention of blue parking zones: From 8500 to 14.300 cars

• Green Zone Parking: 7 500 cars
7.500

• Private Controlling since 1991/2008

•Since 2010: Executed by the city
Si 2010 E db h i


Eco Parking
• Since April 2004 „
p „Eco-Parking“
g
• New regulation will be developed in April 2011:
- Minimum Euro V
- 110 g CO2 per km as a limit of pollutant emission is intended
(expertise together with the Technical University is in progress)


P & R Places combined with Combi Tickets for PT
But
B t new strategy is to build them at the source of traffic!
t t i t b ild th t th f t ffi !


CarSharing in public space

280 cars on 100 places in Austria

10 places with 13 cars in the city centre


Cycling Strategies on 3 columns:
Infrastructure – Information - Training
g
Since 1988: 116 km bicycle lanes, brigdes & facilities


13 Main cycling routes give orientation
and symbolise the importance of cycling for the city!
g

Foto: ARGUS


200 new cycling facilities per year

Also instead of car parking places


1st Austrian Bicycle Station

275 places including bicycle rental system


Bicycle T i i
Bi l Training for all Generations!
f ll G ti !


Bicycle & Mobility Events &
Tests for Motivation & Fun!
One brand: „Graz changes!“


Promotional Programs for Schools & Enterprises


Tip 1: Cultural Capital Year 2003 helped us
investing in Gentle Mobility!
g y


Tip 2: Public Involvement

Advantage: Citizens feel respected, informed &
can create actively their living environment!

Disadvantage: You never reach all &
you have to make compromises!


Tip 3: Involvement of Traders

Reitschulgasse in
the PAST:
A shopping street Reitschulgasse NOW: More space for pedestrians,
full of parking cars some trees & more quality of stay on seets
(not obliged to purchase anything!)


Tip 4: Innovative Planning Philosophies -
Shared Space
p
Better spatial design for public space –
Less traffic regulations by signs


Tip 4: Innovative Planning Philosophies –
Living Streets
g
Involving Citizens & especially children & elderly people!


Tip 5: Investments in Gentle Mobility Campaigns
bring Motivation, Discussion & Change of behaviour!
g , g

A “declaration of love” to Gentle Mobility

You don‘t walk I want to ride
You‘re my next stop! alone! with you!


Thank you for Cycling!


From a car oriented city…also in the inner centre…


…step by step to a Citizen oriented City


Space for People


Space for People- Reduction of
Parking Places in Public Space


Platz für Menschen for your attention
Thank you
and Welcome in GRAZ!

Gudrun Uranitsch
City of Graz
Mobility Officer in the office of Lisa Rücker,
Vice Mayor for Mobility,Transport and Environment
T ++43 316 872 2023
Email : gudrun.uranitsch@stadt.graz.at


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