Sustainable mobility on EU islands
good afternoon my name is chuchus i’m
professor in the technical university of
crete
in the renewable and sustainable energy
systems lab and i’m working for
the last 30 years on
sustainable energy and mobility
projects
in my first satellite you can see
you can see the pictures of
some metropolitan cities the east
and i’m wondering if this will be our
our dystopic future
uh so in order to to take
into account very seriously uh climate
change
um the european commission has
implemented several activities we know
all we as we know that europe
is the global leader on this kind of
activities
and very recently announced
a green deal policy towards
climate neutral europe by 2050
the plan has it has integrated several
uh ambitious uh targets
such as ninety percent reduction of
greenhouse
emissions and uh one million transit
stations
by 2025 and
13 million vehicles um
yes this is the big picture
take into account the solarity uh
the suggestion the current situation or
the future situation the island
these are pictures from uh from from
wintertime 2019 creator
climate change natural
disasters and
in the next slide you can see
summertime expectations and what
really the next summer time
guests have seen in on the island so
islands have to face very very extreme
cases and but
but the guests who like very
calm and this is very very very very
comfortable very very useful
uh i would like to
show you some some some details of a
project very important project for us
called civita destinations supported by
horizon 2020 the project was
implemented
in 20 in 12 countries plus china
and participated 29 partners from
from several countries of europe
the the lighthouse cities were
fusar from madeira las palmas from
cancanaria
malta from from alta valetta elba
retinol from crete and limassol from
cyprus
the main goal was to demonstrate to sew
solutions mobility movement solutions
based on
policy or real policy on real local
policies
to change the mindsets of citizens and
stakeholders
and to create a a new image and improve
the image equipments of the cities
and also to to be in
this lighthouse exams for other cities
also
under this umbrella i have created
several
uh live labs the streets
live labs for citizens like live labs
for
four guests um and
it was really a fantastic process um
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due to covet this year we have realized
it
in a virtual way um and
we hope next year will be also
in the streets and talking with people
and
getting feedback from different mobility
choices in the city
we have also organized a
cooperation with schools more than 3 000
children have educated
on ecomobility and safety
in the city and outside the schools and
it was really a great experience for all
of us
another activity was
to create apps one of this app
is in the screen called so-called
green your drive and um
yeah it was a testing system to about
the knowledge
how drive we how ecologically we drive
retinol was the first city in in greece
where
the the electric bus fully electric bus
was integrated in the transport system
by the transport operator
there and also
the first municipality in
in greece which has
procured an electric car full electric
car
for the technical services
also in retirement we organized the
exhibition
and where installed three charging
stations
were the three the first three public
stations in greta
and we
created some some kind of movement for
electrical
mobility uh
we know very well that now electrical
mobility is
part of the main of the main policy of
the main
national policy for to promote electric
mobility uh also
as most of you know
where electric bikes scooters in
in several places also during the last
two years
um there were some
some electric bikes in las palmas and
also
death mode in other and also almost
in all participated cities however
um the electrical system
of of this of uh of our islands
is mainly based on on fossil fuels
so practically these electrical
cars electrical scooters electrical
bikes
they they consume mainly
conventional fuels
in foreign you can see the pictures
the stations power stations of creta
we consume 78 percent uh
for the fuels so and only 22 percent
is lineable energy resources for sure we
have to increase it
and we we know very well that uh maybe
in the future
in the visit future theta will be 100
percent
dynamically independent and on
dynamically independent and used by
using green energy
in your density sources exploiting also
the interconnection with continental
greece
another example of our work is that we
have put
a network of monetary stations to
for traffic load and to to monitor and
to
assess the environmental conditions
carbon dioxide carbon monoxide
nitrogen oxide hydrocarbons etc
and have created models to to see
which is the impact of the traffic in
the quality of environment in the city
and
retinol is very very clear city is for
sure
um to to to have put also some some
electronic
monetary systems inside cars in some
number of cars and um to to see
how ecologically the drivers
use these cars inside the city version
this is
some some some some results
from from this performance and
and we can translate this performance in
so two
emissions by using these cars
kovit was a big big issue
where scientific covetous era
and the impact in mobility was very it
was huge
uh for instance by using
satellite pictures uh we can
see how how is um
how was france um
during uh march uh 19
2019 and march 2020 the same for italy
less cars less pollution this is very
let’s say very promising image uh
all of us we know that uh maybe during
the next
period of or the current period of covet
we have some elements of
what we call without effect the
situation is coming back
um but we have to learn and
to use and exploit lesos land
from uh from from this from the
combat period we have made a a study
to see the the impact
uh of uh of lockdown
on mobility
as you can see the picture we have
during the first week in of the lockdown
in greece
almost 30 percent less
movement by using a car as a passenger
to the safety of course it’s the same
more or less with bath
and bus is is also an issue
how to solve and how to improve the
safety
for the society for sure uh
vaccine will improve all of us will
prove that
everything will be changed
sunplus is another civitas project
which in which we participate
um the aim is how to create
a efficient sustainable and mobility
plan for
small cities with seasonal
tourism the
city to apply is
of chania as an indicator
is a municipality with 21 residents and
25
21 000 residents and 25 000
pets
for platanias i have already integrated
or tried to degrade
in the mobility in different activities
which is agrofood
it’s education and
logistics especially with congestion
during the
season and of course tourism which is
the main industry
with a growing trend
trying to to to to create this uh
this sample is this
sustainable mobility plan uh we have
already
organized meetings with all
major stakeholders of the isla of the
of the area like the region of
creta the transport operator
police association citizens
association of tourism suppliers
etc etc
these are some some some some maps
how to to we put all information
in a geographical way and to present it
to the stakeholders and to citizens
and to see the response from them
um is the same here different models
uh try to see the system
not only by by one measure but as a
total
for instance is not only to create
one pedestrian or a bike
pathway but to see
which would be also the impact of this
measure in the full operation
of the city these are pictures from
this uh uh for the for from from these
activities in planas
in closing this presentation i would
like to to put some issues uh first of
all
uh let’s think uh how to integrate this
experience from kobe as an opportunity
for climate change
uh the agenda we can think that
environment a sustainable environment is
high priority
for the islands because this is our
product
season fluctuation makes this
very very complicated to for them
to design and to to
use and to maintain the infrastructure
also the islands the most of the case
are missing resources and capacity and
to degrade the green deal and also the
most of the cases
the touring sector is composed by small
businesses family businesses
so to understand and to change the
performance towards sustainability
and the energy new energy directions and
european commission policies is rather
complex thank you very much for for your
time and i hope
that this presentation was useful
for some of you