The MORECO Project

The MORECO
Project
October 2013
Issue 5
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1. Introduction
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1 Introduction
2 Moreco Mid-term
conference in
Mantova
3 MORECO Tool
implementation
process in the Pilot
Sites
4 The MORECO-events
5 Salzburg pilot area
6 Pinerolese pilot area
With the midterm conference in Mantova (4th of June 2013) the MORECO
project overcame one of its main turning points and entered in its last
phase, that will bring to its conclusion in the half of 2014.
The midterm conference was a great occasion to compare the variety of
solutions that the partners are testing in the different pilot areas to improve
accessibility and to foster sustainable mobility by an optimized polycentric
settlement development. Furthermore, the conference allowed a widening
of MORECO’s horizons, through the interesting lectures that presented the
cases of other areas in the Alpine Space (as for the urban regeneration
realized in the urban settlements and the public transport system of the
city of Brescia) and elsewhere (the urban development of Curitiba and of
North Holland Province).
In this number of the newsletter you can discover the tool implementation
process in the pilot sites, take a look at the list of MORECO events and be
introduced to the Salzburg and to the Pinerolese case study regions. To
be updated on the program and on all activities of the project check the
website www.moreco-project.eu!
2. Moreco
Mantova
Mid-term
conference
in
Social and territorial costs of the urban sprawl: how to rethink the
planning tools
The midterm conference of the MORECO project was held on the 4th of
June 2013 in the prestigious location of the Salone Mantegnesco in
Mantova. The event, entitled “Social and territorial costs of the urban
sprawl: how to rethink the planning tools”, was organized by the Province
of Mantova.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1 Introduction
2 Moreco Mid-term
conference in
Mantova
3 MORECO Tool
implementation
process in the Pilot
Sites
4 The MORECO-events
5 Salzburg pilot area
The conference was attended by about 90 people, among which the
project partners representatives, the conference lecturers, public
authorities, associations representatives, professionals and students, and
has been the occasion for the whole MORECO partnership to present
itself to Mantova and describe the tools developed by the project and, in
particular, the actions that the Province is coordinating within its territory.
The event dealt with the consequences of a bad territorial planning and its
related problems, which represent some of the main theme of interest for
the Alpine Space region: soil consumption, traffic and pollution, wastage of
resources and worsening of the quality of life are common and current
problems in many areas of the Alpine Space territory, in particular the
ones characterized by medium-big cities and mountain valleys. From
these subjects arose the need for an occasion where to evaluate smart
solutions, exchange best practices and discuss possible common way out.
6 Pinerolese pilot area
The conference began with the welcome of the local authorities
represented by the President of the Province of Mantova, Alessandro
Pastacci, who has underlined the importance of the participation to
European projects in order to contribute to the creation of a real European
Union and at the same time to bring locally the added value of
international best practices, his speech was followed by the
representatives of the Municipality of Mantova and of the project observer
APAM (The local public mobility agency).
Then SIR, IMOVE and
ISPACE
gained
the
participants
attention
presenting the projects tools:
the tool for politicians that SIR
is developing, the cost
calculator for householders
almost concluded by IMOVE
and the software to support
the planners in the public
administrations, realized by
ISPACE.
Some interesting hints were
offered by the international
experts from the University of
Deventer (Holland), Huibert
Haccau and Paul Chorus,
who have presented the
experiences
and
methodologies used in the
urban planning of the city of
Curitiba (Brasil) and in the
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1 Introduction
2 Moreco Mid-term
conference in
Mantova
3 MORECO Tool
implementation
process in the Pilot
Sites
4 The MORECO-events
5 Salzburg pilot area
6 Pinerolese pilot area
Province of North Holland, where the urban planning have followed both
the public transport network and the evolution of the society and the
territory.
Luciano Lussignoli of the National Institute of Urban Planning, presented
the programme of urban regeneration realized in the urban settlements
and the public transport system of the city of Brescia (Italy).
Two of the MORECO project observers also brought their contribute to the
conference. Francesca Quiri (APAM) has explained the local outcomes of
the project related to the possibility of connection between the request for
mobility and the integrated planning of local transports and urban
development, while Carlo Peraboni (Politecnico) has presented the issue
of the polycentrism in the “spread city”: the governance tools in the
territory of Mantova.
The Province of Mantova has concluded the speeches explaining the
activities that it is implementing in the pilot area: from the experimentation
of the MORECO tools to the adoption of some common measures for the
Territorial Plan of Provincial Coordination and the Plans of Territorial
Governance for the development of the territory and transports.
The interest shown for the tackled themes and the numerous participants,
in particular the representatives of the 16 Municipalities of the 1° and 2°
belts of Mantova involved into the project, have confirmed that the event
has been an important occasion to discuss, at a local level, integrated
planning and shared governance.
Outside the Salone Mantegnesco, an exhibition of illustrative panels has
shown the main projects realized by the Province of Mantova and some
Municipalities to support a sustainable mobility and a territorial planning
that aims at minimizing the soil consumption and increasing the services in
smaller centres.
Please see the site www.moreco-project.eu for the downloads of the
lecturers’ ppt and the illustrative panels.
Contact person:
Elena Mattioli
Provincia di Mantova
Tel.: +39 (0)376 204316
E-Mail: [email protected]
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1 Introduction
2 Moreco Mid-term
conference in
Mantova
3 MORECO Tool
implementation
process in the Pilot
Sites
4 The MORECO-events
5 Salzburg pilot area
6 Pinerolese pilot area
3. MORECO Tool implementation process
in the Pilot Sites
There were different tools developed during the second project year of
MORECO to foster sustainable mobility by an optimized polycentric
settlement development in the Alpine Space. Beside the tools for
politicians and planners, a calculation tool for private households was
designed as well. This tool is planned to be used by private households
which want to analyze their mobility and residential costs, referring to
different site locations.
The MORECO tool for households was developed as a basic MS Excel
tool which can be used in each involved Pilot Site. As simple Excel version
it can be downloaded from the project website (http://www.morecoproject.eu/Results.php). As it was planned during the development phase,
there are two adaption steps possible in the Pilot Sites concerning the
marketing of the household tool:
On the one hand the pilot sites have the option just to implement and
promote the basic Excel version of the tool, translated into the local
language. On the other hand it is also conceivable, to use the Excel tool
and additionally develop it further into a web-based version similar to the
Munich WoMo-Calculator (http://womo.mvv-muenchen.de/). Even a total
different implementation process is possible, depending on the special
needs and framework in the partner region. Each MORECO partner
decided independently if and which tools they want to implement in the
relevant Pilot Site and how much effort they will put into the process.
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5 partners determined to adapt the household tool beside the other
MORECO-Tools. The adaption processes differ very much from Pilot Site
to Pilot Site. Some started very early and developed their own approach
(France); other partners just translated the common MORECO Excel tool.
Belluno
Rhône-Alpes
Salzburg
UIRS
UNCEM
Approach
Web-based
version
Excel version
with integrated
Python software,
then web-based
version
Web-based
version
Excel version
and webbased version
Excel-based
full cost
calculator +
car cost webbased version
Calculated
development
time
7 months
development and
implementation
Development 12
months,
implementation 8
months
3 months
development
200 hours
Date of
publication
(online)
December 2013
Beginning of
2014
September/
September
2013
Fall 2013
Live interfaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Not yet
decided
No
Involved
Organizations/
Citizens,
Consumer
associations,
Public transport
agencies
Citizens, social
bodies, public
transport
organizations,
housing
promoters,
municipalities,
notaries, banks
Salzburger
transport
association
Local
authorities of
the JVS
region,
potentially the
association of
Municipalities
of Slovenia
Metropolitan
and regional
mobility
agency
bodies
Contact person:
Susanne Franz
imove
Institut für Mobilität & Verkehr
Institute for Mobility & Transport
Tel.: +49(0)631 205 4261
E-Mail: [email protected]
October 2013
The declarations in the table are results of a partner questionnaire
concerning the implementation process.
After the development of the local tool applications, the implementation
process will focus on the marketing of the tool(s) in the last phase of the
MORECO project.
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4. The recent MORECO-events
This list contains the transnational and local meetings organized by the MORECO partners in the last 6 months
and in the previous period, if not included in the Newsletter 4.
Date
Venue
Transnational
Local
Title
Purpose
13.11.2012
Sedico (BL) –
Villa Patt
Local IT
Mo.Re.Co. project - Territory
governance on a mountain scale
Moreco official presentation to the stakeholders of
pilot areas and whole Province of Belluno
14.11.2012
Lozzo di
Cadore (BL)
Local IT
Workshop for decision makers and planners of
pilot area n. 2
17.1.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with provincial school management office
to propose and to share activities for schools
7.2.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with cooperative companies
confederation to involve them in pilot actions
17.2.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with GAS (ethical purchasing groups)
provincial association to involve them in pilot
actions
19.3.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with Belluno Municipality to involve it in
pilot actions
04.04.2013
Green City
Munich
Local DE
Series of lectures “Klimaherbst
2013 Mobilität”
First preparatory meeting, participation of
MORECO
Meeting with other sectors of Province of Belluno
to coordinate activities with provincial
municipalities (as data collections and
dissemination) of many european projects on
going
11.04.2013
Belluno
Local IT
16.04.2013
Salzburg
Local AT
Workshop / Meeting
INTERREG Mobility-Networking
19.04.2013
Salzburg
Local AT
Workshop
Integration of relevant data into GIS-online of
Land Salzburg
23.04.2013
Salzburg
Local AT
Public presentation
Presentation of MORECO Slidepool at SIRgeneral assembly
24.04.2013
Torino
Local IT
Workshop
Implementation and test of tools at the
Polythecnic University of Torino
02.05.2013
Torino
Local IT
Workshop
Implementation and test of tools at the
Polythecnic University of Torino
06.05.2013
Salzburg
Local AT
Workshop
Integration of relevant data into GIS-online of
Land Salzburg
Local DE
Workshop with Technische
Universität München
discussion of local mobility needs and costs,
possible contribution of MORECO
Presentation of the MORECO results in the
municipal council
13.05.2013 Planning Dept.
14.05.2013
Municipality
Haar
Local DE
Stress test results
14.05.2013
Grödig
Local AT
„Round table meeting of spatial
planners“
16.05.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Presentation of MORECO Slidepool
Meeting with Belluno Municipality to coordinate
activities for schools
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Date
Venue
Transnational
Local
Title
Purpose
04.06.2013
Mantova
Transnational
MidTerm Conference
First MORECO-results, Networking
0506.06.2013
Mantova
Transnational
6 Partner meeting
Transnational project coordination
11.06.2013
Bürmoos
Local AT
Project presentation
Presentation of MORECO Slidepool at assembly
of ‚Regionalverband Flachgau-Nord‘
11.06.2013
Green City
Munich
Local DE
Series of lectures “Klimaherbst
2013 Mobilität”
Second preparatory meeting, participation of
MORECO
17.06.2013 Planning Dept.
Local DE
What is still missing? What can
MORECO contribute?
Discussion of city and regional planners with
Technische Universität München
26.06.2013
(1)
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with artisan companies confederation to
involve them in pilot actions
26.06.2013
(2)
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with Belluno Municipality to share
activities for schools
28.06.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with estate agencies to involve them in
pilot actions
15.07.2013
Feltre
Local IT
Meeting with citizens association (Laboratori di
cittadinanza attiva) to involve them in pilot actions
18.07.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with Belluno Municipality to organize
concrete activities for schools
19.07.2013
(1)
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with commerce and tourism
confederation to involve them in pilot actions and
in “Moreco INformation” preparation
19.07.2013
(2)
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with GAS (ethical purchasing groups)
provincial association to involve them in in
“Moreco INformation” preparation
23.07.2013
Planning
Dept.
Transnational
24.07.2013
Mantova
National IT
Meeting with italian partners to coordinate tools
developement
31.07.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Meeting with industrial companies confederation
to involve them in pilot actions and in “Moreco
INformation” preparation
01.08.2013
Venezia
Local IT
Meeting with Veneto Region (observer) to involve
them in pilot actions and in “Moreco INformation”
preparation
th
MORECO lobbying in Brussels
Draft of activities
01.08.2013 Planning Dept.
Local DE
MORECO PR work
Workshop with PR experts
05.08.2013
Salzburg
Local AT
Workshop
Information and discussion about possible
synergies with „LandInvest“
06.08.2013
Belluno
Local IT
Final meeting with Belluno Municipalità and the
other institutions involved in project for schools, to
define and coordinate concrete activities
Meeting with BIM Piave Consortium (institution
that group together all province municipalities) to
involve them in pilot activities and to support
Province in contacting local politicians
07.08.2013
Belluno
Local IT
14.08.2013
Tamsweg
Local AT
Lecture at EURUFU-summer
university
„Mobility in rural areas“
DI Helmut Koch, komobile
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Date
Venue
Transnational
Local
Title
Purpose
27.08.2013
Salzburg
Local AT
Project presentation
Informing the new vice-governor of Land Salzburg
about MORECO
03.09.2013
Belluno
Local IT
12.09.2013
Amiens
National FR
34th national meeting of French
Urban Agencies
Presentation of MORECO project and
MOBICOSTS tool
13.09.2013
Grenoble
Local FR
New student workshop
Work on the MOBICOSTS experimentation,
feedbacks and dissemination
17.09.2013
Green City
Munich
Local DE
Series of lectures “Klimaherbst
2013 Mobilität”
Final preparatory meeting, participation of
MORECO
26.09.2013
Salzburg
Local AT
Workshop
New ways of cooperation with Land Salzburg,
Department for mobility planning
27.09.2013
(1)
Longarone
(BL)
Local IT
Expo Dolomiti 2013 fair
Free software GIS lesson
Free software GIS lesson for planners,
architects, public technical office personnels.
27.09.2013
(2)
Longarone
(BL)
Local IT
Expo Dolomiti 2013 fair
Mo.Re.Co. project – A different
method to plan costs in territory
management
Meeting with decision makers and planners of
pilot areas to present Moreco tools
28.09.2013
Longarone
(BL)
Local IT
Expo Dolomiti 2013 fair
Free software GIS lesson
Free software GIS lesson for planners,
architects, public technical office personnels.
29.09.2013
Longarone
(BL)
Local IT
Expo Dolomiti 2013 fair
Free software GIS lesson
Free software GIS lesson for planners,
architects, public technical office personnels.
01.10.2013
Saint
Marcellin
Local FR
City council
Presentation of MORECO and first technical
contributions to the pilot site
Meeting with BIM Piave Consortium to share tools
development
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5. Salzburg pilot area
1 Introduction
2 Moreco Mid-term
conference in
Mantova
3 MORECO Tool
implementation
process in the Pilot
Sites
4 The MORECO-events
5 Salzburg pilot area
6 Pinerolese pilot area
City of Salzburg and District ‘Salzburg Umgebung’
The pilot Site ‘Salzburg Umgebung’ is located in the northern Alpine
foothills and is characterized by agriculture, business and brisk settlement
activities. Because of the advantageous landscape and the embedded
capital city Salzburg, land is jeopardised by diverging claims on soil
utilisation. It is a vibrant region with good international transport
connections. It includes 37 rural municipalities with 143.000 people and
the capital city Salzburg with 150.000 inhabitants. The rural district is a
settlement magnet for people from different Austrian and foreign regions
as well as for people who leave the city centre for living whereas the city
itself provides a big amount of jobs.
The rising demand of residential areas increases property prices,
commuting increases traffic, availability of building land in preferable areas
is often a problem. This is why the area has a lot of urban sprawl and
many people move to the countryside in order to find affordable property.
Contact person:
Daniela Bischof
SIR - Salzburger Institute for
Spatial Planning and Housing
Tel.: +43 (0)662 623455-32
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Especially in the private sector location decisions are often taken without
long term impact assessment. Many new residents are orientated towards
short term costs and individual transport, away from good accessible and
affordable infrastructure. They have to commute every day for work,
shopping, leisure activities and children's activities. This is mainly done by
car (motorised private transport) which causes high costs for private
budgets as well as for public budgets.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1 Introduction
2 Moreco Mid-term
conference in
Mantova
3 MORECO Tool
implementation
process in the Pilot
Sites
4 The MORECO-events
5 Salzburg pilot area
6 Pinerolese pilot area
Target groups and Outputs in Salzburg
As site decisions "where to live", "where to plan residential area", "where
to build?" are made by different groups of stakeholders, MORECO tools
and governance address different target groups such as private persons
as well as economy (investors, banks, building companies), spatial
planners and political decision makers. The developed tools in Salzburg
are new institutional cooperation between authorities in charge of spatial
planning and mobility, sound methodological instruments for showing long
term cost-impacts (Scenarios), new instruments showing spatial potentials
(Settlement assessment-tool) and new services to influence house hunting
citizens like housing counselling and the MORECO-household-costcalculator. Additionally we provide several lectures, events, stakeholder
workshops and consulting service at the Salzburg fair for housing and
living.
The new MORECO-household calculator and MORECO-settlement
assessment tool are available on the website www.moreco.at.
6. Pinerolese pilot area
The Pinerolese pilot region includes two main valleys (Chisone and
Pellice) and the underlying area that has its main centre in Pinerolo
(35.000 inhabitants). The area has an important historical background,
being a border region between Italy and France, characterized by the
Waldesian and Occitan cultures.
In the last twenty years, the region was interested by transformations
typical of mountain areas. The delocalization of productive activities
towards the lowlands and the disappearance of traditional agricultural and
farm activities brought to a significant depopulation of the area. In the
same period the touristic activities, mainly focused on sky, were a cause of
development, that knew its main moment during the Torino Winter
Olympics in 2006. Unfortunately, the sky tourism led also to an increase of
the urban exploitation of the territory, with the building of vacation houses
and a disordered urban sprawl towards the lowlands. In the Province of
Torino from 1990 the urban areas increased of 14%, while the population
remained constant.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1 Introduction
2 Moreco Mid-term
conference in
Mantova
3 MORECO Tool
implementation
process in the Pilot
Sites
4 The MORECO-events
5 Salzburg pilot area
6 Pinerolese pilot area
Contact persons:
Andrea Stanghellini
Erich Giordano
UNCEM Piemonte
Tel.: +39 (011 8613713
E-Mail: [email protected]
MORECO - Smart
locations for better
liveability
The area is interested by different means of public transport. The railway
between Torino, Pinerolo and Torre Pellice is by 150 years a direct
connection with the regional administrative centre. This line is composed
by a first section between Torino and Pinerolo, inaugurated in 1854, and
by a second one that goes up the first part of the Pellice Valley,
inaugurated in 1882. Besides the train there is a huge, even if confused
and scarcely organized, network of bus connections.
Despite all this possibilities, the public transport role is today marginal, in
particular concerning the internal connections. In fact, while the
percentage of transfers towards Torino is about 25-30%, the data
decreases until the 15% for internal transfers. For this reason, the
Pinerolo-Torino line, set in densely populated areas and with a significant
number of consumers, entered at the end of 2012 in the Metropolitan
Railway System of the Torino area. On the other hand, the railway
connection between Pinerolo and Torre Pellice was suspended in June
2012 and substituted by a bus transport, to reduce the high costs in a
process of general renovation of the regional public transport that affected
in particular the lines operating at a loss.
The infrastructural choices, the urban planning and the public transport
management favoured the private mobility. In fact in the last twenty years
important interventions were made on roads infrastructures – among
which the completion between 1992 and 2006 of the Torino-Pinerolo
highway – while the railway line was not potentiated. Still, the doubling of
the Torino-Pinerolo line was projected and for the section towards Torre
Pellice many solutions were proposed (i.e. transforming it in a light rail
inspired from the Stadtbahn of Karlsruhe): but for none of this projects and
proposals the funds were set. In the same direction the urban planning
and the residential and service localization strategies did not take into
account the presence of the railway: for this reason nowadays the railway
stations are often far from houses and poles generating mobility. Finally, in
the public transport management the combination between different
systems, that could favour the interchange between private cars, buses
and trains, was not incentivized: the low reliability of railway service and
the interests of local public transport enterprises, brought the different
means of transport to a competitive situation, with the buses travelling in
parallel with the railway, overlapping in terms of routes and schedules.
This situation is deeply anti-economic for the involved public subjects and
does not bring real benefits to final users.
Imprint:
UNCEM, Union of Mountain Municipalities of Piedmont Region,
Torino, ITALY
in collaboration with the MORECO-partnership