Move On Green Final Conference: How can sustainable transport strengthen rural and mountain areas attractiveness?

Sustainable transport is vital to maintain the environmental and economic health of rural and mountainous areas and to ensure the access of both inhabitants and potential visitors to key services such as employment, education, healthcare…

Policy makers in rural areas are well aware that the absence of sustainable mobility schemes affects any development strategy implemented in rural territories. No matter how much effort is spent on education, promotion of tourism, or new economic initiatives… developing good sustainable transport pattern remains one of the key success conditions for the attractiveness of rural and mountain areas.

The Move on Green Project aims to improve the design and effectiveness of regional policies on sustainable transport in rural and mountain areas. To achieve this goal, during 3 years, Move on Green has collected examples of innovative ground-level initiatives and prepared a Good Practice guide on innovative transport solutions to help decision makers to get inspiration and improve their transport patterns. Partners have then derived from this practical experience Policy Guidelines on Sustainable Transport in rural areas to foster policy-learning for European and regional policy-makers. Finally, each regional partner has prepared an Implementation plan to concretely adapt its policy towards more sustainable mobility schemes.

This Move on Green final conference will give participants the opportunity to see into more details the results of the project and will address more generally the question of the attractiveness of rural and mountain areas. How can sustainable transport better contribute to this attractiveness?

You are interested in sustainable transport in rural and mountain areas? You wish to discover new and creative economically viable solutions that can be effective and efficient while being environmentally friendly? You are a policy-maker at local, regional, national or European level and you face transport issues in a rural or mountainous area?

Come to our final conference and have your say!