Program: H2020

Call: H2020-MG-2018-TwoStages

Project acronym: ReVeAL

Project title: Regulating Vehicle Access for improved Livability

Description: Despite urgent calls for “smarter urban vehicle access regulations” in the Urban Mobility Package and other high-level political commitments, very few decision makers are keen on going public with the idea of restricting car access (in time or space) in urban areas. ReVeAL will help to add Urban Vehicle Access Regulations (UVAR) to the standard range of urban mobility transition approaches of cities across Europe. Toward this end, the ReVeAL consortium will combine conceptual work and case study research with hands-on UVAR implementation in six pilot cities and systematic stakeholder interaction and professional communication activities. The pilot cities of Helmond, Jerusalem, London, Padova, Vitoria-Gasteiz and the project leader Bielefeld are committed to developing, implementing, testing and evaluating UVAR measures in one or more of four “Measure Fields”: 1) Zero Emission Zones, 2) Spatial Interventions, 3) Pricing Measures and – through a process called “sandboxing” – 4) some innovate Future Options (C-ITS, geo-fencing etc.). ReVeAL considers the implementation of UVAR measures a necessary part of a wider transition management challenge and therefore ensures comprehensive and coordinated changes to multiple elements of the urban transport system. Most prominently, these aspects fall into four “Transition Areas”: Governance and Financing; User Needs/Acceptance; Mobility Concepts; and System Design/Technology – all of which play a role in any change process. With its built-in mechanisms to accompany, document and analyse the processes and impacts in the six pilot cities, ReVeAL will be able to systematically extract lessons learned and thus support the wider rollout of smart UVAR approaches across Europe. A key strategy towards this goal is the provision of practical decision support tools and advice on the integration of UVAR in SUMPs. ReVeAL will result in an online Decision Support Tool, which includes a UVAR Readiness Assessment and a UVAR Process Advisor.

Project partners:
    • PP1 STADT BIELEFELD Germany (Coordinator)
    • PP2 COMUNE DI PADOVA Italy
    • PP3 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale – ICEA Italy
    • PP4 GEMEENTE HELMOND Netherlands
    • PP5 V-TRON BV Netherlands
    • PP6 MUNICIPALITY OF JERUSALEM Israel
    • PP7 THE MAYOR AND COMMONALTY AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF LONDON United Kingdom
    • PP8 TRANSPORT FOR LONDON United Kingdom
    • PP9 CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES Spain
    • PP10 SADLER CONSULTANTS EUROPE GMBH Germany
    • PP11 TRT TRASPORTI E TERRITORIO SRL Italy
    • PP12 WSP SVERIGE AB Sweden
    • PP13 POLIS - PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES, ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE Belgium
    • PP14 UNIVERSITEIT GENT Belgium
    • PP15 RUPPRECHT CONSULT-FORSCHUNG & BERATUNG GMBH Germany


Budget: 3.942.067,50 Euro
Budget Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale – ICEA: 59.120,00 Euro

Duration: 36 months

Starting date: 01/06/2019

Contact Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale – ICEA:
Prof. Riccardo Rossi - riccardo.rossi@unipd.it

Website: https://civitas-reveal.eu/

Il tool realizzato a conclusione del progetto.