How can we decrease the amount of CO2 caused by traffic in Mikkeli?

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Create solutions for sustainable transportation

How can we promote an agile public transport system that will push more citizens towards sustainable transit habits? How can we foster safer and faster biking? Which incentives we can create to make walking and biking for distances less than 5km more attractive?

Challenge description

Current ideas that are already in use or soon will be:

o Two functioning biogas filling stations with a target of five
o Recharging points for electric cars in the market park and in some stores
o City cars powered by biogas
o Available commuting by local buses for elementary school students, the city aims to make biogas a driving force also for local transport (the city is already involved in promoting biogas for transport)
o Building cycle lanes and implementing the walking and cycling measures outlined in the plan annually.

Challenge vision

Solutions should focus on:

Alternative drive technologies and vehicle concepts

Possible incentives that city can implement to meet the goal with emission reduction

Environmental, psycological and marketing approaches for proposed idea

Meeting customer / passenger requirements: punctuality, comfort

Solution targets:

Development of technically feasible ideas / concepts for rail vehicles

Solution must make a significant contribution to climate protection

Concept must be suitable to be used as the basis for a prototype

Providing ideas for further development together with the challenge host (thesis opportunity!)

Thinking outside the box is expressly welcomed

Non-targets:

Mentioned ideas in use

The introduction of biogas cars for public transport,
Where and how pedestrian and cycle lanes should be constructed

Solutions that cause additional fossil energy consumption or environmentally sensitive resource extraction (e.g. rare earth elements)

Solutions that are protected by copyright

Preparation of economic and technical calculations

Download material

Cycleways in Mikkeli, Phasing out report and Cyclists Report - the latest ask from the organisers

cycleways.pdf

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