Category: Seminars and Conferences
State: Archived
Wed, 24 Feb 2021, 12:00 PM – Thu, 25 Feb 2021, 1:30 PM

Final conference of the SUITS Project

Online Event

On 24 and 25 February 2021 the final conference of the SUITS Project entitled "Enhancing the capacity of small-medium local authorities to deliver on green sustainable mobility" will be held online.
The aim of the international project SUITS, funded by the European Commission and concluded in November 2020, was to increase the capacity of local governments, through new policies and planning tools, to implement measures for an integrated, smart and sustainable transport.
Politecnico di Torino is partner of this project and the DIATI, in the figure of Professor Marco Diana with the collaboration of Professor Miriam Pirra, is the reference department.

The professors activities, summarized in the publication of two papers “Integrating mobility data sources to define and quantify a vehicle-level congestion indicator: an application for the city of Turin” and “Freight distribution in urban areas: a method to select the most important loading and unloading areas and a survey tool to investigate related demand patterns” will be presented during the session "Tools for the Analysis and Exploitation of Mobility Data by Small-Medium cities" February 25 from 11:45 to 13:15, Italian time.

The SUITS Consortium invites representatives from cities authorities, local regional bodies, national and regional authorities, regulators, policy makers, civil society, the larger scientific community, transport industry, transport service providers, civil society, media representatives, research institutions and academics working in the fields of transport and sustainable mobility to discuss the challenges associated with the capacity building of small-medium cities as to stimulate innovation in transport concepts and services through a citizen-oriented socioeconomic approach.

The SUITS conference sessions with presentations of innovative results and lively debates will be recorded and streamed live on YouTube.

Link to registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/suits-project-digital-final-conference-tickets-138576152001