For many years European energy agencies have successfully promoted energy efficiency at local and regional level. Not so many of them have been active in transports although this sector stands for one third of our energy consumption and more than 28% of CO2 emissions.

M●VE is a project built on the partnership of 7 European energy agencies or similar representing different stages of maturity and a variety of experiences in Mobility Management but with a common interest to increase their skills and engagement in transports. During the project period, 2006-08, the partners will acquire the skills, the tools and the platform needed for the work with transports. By carrying out projects on local level they will give input to some Good examples and best practices for their future work.

The purpose with the project is to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through:

• Raising the awareness among local authorities, companies and public in general;

• Obtaining changes in people's attitudes and behaviour;

• Preparing for a modal shift towards less energy intensive modes;

• Providing target groups with tools such as general methods that will help to reach the goals;

• Dissemination of project results such as good examples and Best practices in order to benefit from the work in other regions.

The objectives will be achieved by:

• Creating a Mobility Management Network Cluster that will provide the means for exchange of know-how and information between the project partners as well as among market actors in the participating regions;

• Identifying indicators based on existing European initiatives and adapted to suit local conditions;

• Creating Mobility agencies or similar platforms that will act as information and promotion centres and carry out projects addressing to local authorities, companies and other stakeholders;

• Collecting Good examples and Best practices in a handbook to give inspiration and guidelines for further work within Mobility Management.

The progress of the project:

The establishment of M●VE started in January 2006 and was followed by a kick-off meeting and two transnational workshops in Kalmar, Sweden in the beginning of April 2006. During the meeting the partnership agreed about a common platform for their future work.

The decision was made to under go common training on transport through e-ATOMIUM during the next meeting, which will be held in Chieti, Italy in October 2006.

Another decision was to commit to the use of SUMO-model for evaluation of Mobility Management projects based on MOST. This will put the project into a European context. The model is being translated into English within the scope of the project and the translation is available at the project website http://www.move-project.org

The work that is taking place on the local level consists of establishing network of key actors and other stakeholders in order to get their commitment for the work and starting up projects that will be evaluated using SUMO.

The project will run for a period of 36 months from January 2006.