Learning From MIDAS

The overall aim of the MIDAS training activities is to ensure that the useful results and experiences obtained in the different MIDAS cities in terms of soft measures to reduce transport demand and encourage modal shift will be promoted towards other local authorities across Europe.

MIDAS Training Resource Pack

A Training Resource Pack is prepared by the partners and is used as training material for the workshops. The resource pack is based on local case study material and includes information which can assist other cities in developing soft measures within their own local context, and thus ensure successful transferability.

Deliverable 11, which is the latest version of the Training Resource Pack, made available for the 3rd Training Workshop: the “Train the Trainer” workshop held in Brussels in November 2008, can be viewed and downloaded here: Training Resource Pack (Final version)

Annexes to the Training Resource Pack are provided in the table below with direct links to the documents:

Soft measures categories

Document or material name

MIDAS Cities
1. Education & Awareness 1.1 Info sheet about car sharing Bologna
1.2 Information brochure on the revision of the Urban Travel Plan (La révision du plan de déplacements urbains) Clermont-Ferrand
1.3 Posters for exhibition stand on the revision of the Urban Travel Plan (La révision du plan de déplacements urbains) (A: Large poster, B: Curved poster)
1.4 Survey brochures Cork
1.5 Travel Diaries (A: Inside, B: Cover)
1.6 MIDAS info-sheet Energy & Emissions
1.7 MIDAS info-sheet on Promotion Campaign
1.8 MIDAS info-sheet on Walking Routes
2. Participation & Consultation 2.1 Questionnaire used for user survey Bologna
2.2 Results of user survey
2.3 Results of focus groups on user perception and needs
2.4 Travel Guide Questionnaire Clermont-Ferrand
2.5 Final Report on Survey data Cork
2.6 MIDAS info-sheet on survey results
2.7 MIDAS info-sheet on stakeholders
2.8 D 6/8: Methods for stakeholders and target groups consultation in alternative transport strategies MIDAS
3. Information, Advice & Marketing 3.1 Marketing Strategy (Danish) Aalborg
3.2 Cinema/TV spots (spot 1, spot 2, spot 3)
3.3 Mobility Vademecum ‘La carta della mobilità’ (2007) Bologna
3.4 Radio advert Cork
3.5 Newspapers advertisement (A: News clippings, B: News clippings)
3.6 Executive Summary of Market Research Merseyside
3.7 Travel Plan Pack
3.8 How to get to IM Marsh
3.9 How to get to the University of Liverpool
3.10 NICHES policy note on "City-wide campaigns" NICHES project
4. Planning & coordination 4.1 Protocol Travel Conference Clermont-Ferrand
4.2 Multimodal Travel Scheme (Urban Travel Plan) Power Point presentation in English 15Mo
4.3 Presentation on MOSTRA in English
4.4 ‘Atria Building Travel Plan Framework’ (Site Wide Travel Plan, Incorporating Residential and Commercial Frameworks) Merseyside
4.5 Travel plan for Suceava City Suceava
4.6 D2: Report on Land-use Strategic Plans and Soft Measures Potential MIDAS project
5. Associated measures 5.1 NICHES policy note on "Urban lift-sharing services" NICHES project
5.2 NICHES policy note on "Public bicycles"
5.3 NICHES policy note on "Clean vehicles"
6. MIDAS reports and information material 6.1 D12: Report on Travel Awareness and Marketing Tools Used MIDAS project
6.2 D13: Report on Mobility Management Measures Implemented
6.3 Cork County Council: MIDAS Campaign Evaluation Cork
6.4 Cork County Council: Energy Efficiency Note
6.5 Cork County Council: Info-sheet on MIDAS Cork’s project
7. Links http://www.midas-eu.com/ MIDAS project
http://www.niches-transport.org/ NICHES project
http://www.osmose-os.org/ Osmose database (Open Source for MObile and Sustainable city) Osmose
http://www.epomm.org/ EPOMM – European Platform on Mobility Management EPOMM
http://www.eltis.org/ Vorlage.phtml?mainID=452&id=452 European Local Transport Information Service ELTIS

 

 

MIDAS Training Workshops

Two workshops were organised with direct participation of the MIDAS partners:

The 1st MIDAS Training Workshop was held in Suceava, Romania, on 3rd May 2007.
Photos of the 1st MIDAS Workshop are available here.

The 2nd MIDAS Training Workshop was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 22nd February 2008.
Photos of the 2nd MIDAS Workshop are available here.
Presentations of this event are available below:

MIDAS 2nd Workshop Presentations:

  1. Transport and Planning Activities in Budapest, BKV
  2. Participation & Consultation measures, Clermont Ferrand and Cork
  3. Overview of the MIDAS project and of Soft Transport Measures

Learning from EU projects

  1. SNOWBALL: Demonstration, Take-Up and Further Dissemination of Sustainable Integrated Planning Methods in European Cities
  2. SPUTNIC (Strategies for Public Transport in Cities) – Facing the challenges of local and regional public transport systems in transition

MIDAS Session –Soft Urban Transport Measures

  1. Education & Awareness measures, Bologna and Suceava 6. Participation & Consultation measures, Clermont Ferrand and Cork
  2. Information, Advice & Marketing measures, Aalborg
  3. Planning & Coordination measures, Merseytravel

MIDAS – “Train the Trainer” workshop, held on 17th November 2008, in Brussels:

The final MIDAS training workshop was held in Brussels; this event was addressed to multipliers that can after replicate the learning in their countries (research institutes, networks, consultants…). For more information on this event and to register, please look at the MIDAS “News” page. You can view the presentations here:

  1. Overview of the MIDAS project and of Soft Transport Measures, David Blackledge, TTR
  2. Participation & Consultation measures, Lorraine Choppin, SMTC, Clermont – Ferrand
  3. Travel Diary and Soft Measures in Cork, Ross Palmer, Cork County Council
  4. Information, Advice & Marketing, Gine Monrad Petersen, Nordjyllands Trafikselskab
  5. MAX - Successful Travel Awareness Campaigns & mobility Management Strategies, Ilse Vleugels, Mobiel 21, Leuven
  6. Planning and Coordination in Merseyside, Heather Kenyon, TravelWise Merseyside
  7. Heavily frequented sites – new playgrounds for mobility management, Roberto de Tommasi, Synergo, Zürich
  8. What can we learn from the MIDAS experience? Recommendations regarding soft measures, Anik Bennett, TTR
  9. Setting up a European platform of cycling expertise by means of the bicycle policy audit BYPAD, Tim Asperges, Timenco, Leuven
  10. The ASTUTE project, Paul Curtis, London European Partnership for Transport

MIDAS – Polis event: 14th October 2008, held in Paris, France

MIDAS results and experience were discussed at this event, which was open to Polis members and local authorities from the Paris region. Some very interesting presentations were given by MIDAS partners and members of Polis. You can view the presentations here:

  1. Measures to Influence transport Demand to Achieve Sustainability – Introduction to the MIDAS project, Anik Bennett, TTR
  2. How the MAX-project objectives, key findings, and outputs could help your mobility management projects, Tom Rye, Napier University Edinburgh
  3. Comprehensive information for travellers, Daniela Cocchi, ATC Bologna
  4. How are you travelling? – Travel diaries in Cork, Peter O’Donoghue and Ross Palmer, Cork County Council
  5. The Urban Travel Plan consultation and communication campaign in Clermont-Ferrand, Lorraine Choppin, SMTC, Clermont-Ferrand
  6. Integration of transport and land use policies in Merseyside, xx, TravelWise Merseyside
  7. Considering mobility in an early stage of site development – examples from Germany, Janina Welsch, ILS, Dortmund

MIDAS – Workshop in Madrid, held on 16th December 2008:

A MIDAS training workshop was held in Madrid . For this occasion, a presentation on the awareness raising activities Aalborg developed in the MIDAS project, was prepared in Spanish.

  1. Pequeño ángel o demonio: La campaña de márketing en Aalborg

 

For more information on the MIDAS training activities contact Melanie Kloth at mkloth@polis-online.org

Supported by: Intelligent Energy