Air Quality Information & Car Pooling (Vitoria - Gasteiz, Spain)
Free public transport programme and carpooling initiative in the Spanish Basque country's capital
| Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capital of the Basque Country, one of the 17 Spanish Autonomous Regions. It has 210,000 inhabitants and it is one of the most dynamic cities in terms of economic and demographic developments. Vitoria city Hall is traditionally aware of environmental problems and has a large experience in carrying on innovative projects and solutions in order to improve the life quality of the citizens. In particular the Municipal Services invests a majority of their efforts in best planning the urban mobility and improving the air quality. |  |
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Environmental communication and education awareness campaign in Vitoria will be engaged to make the general public aware of transportation and environmental air quality issues in order to develop sustainable policies and achieve higher quality of life standards work that will define the Air Quality Improvement Plan and propose a range of soft policies, in line with the EC's directive on air quality.
| The campaign will include two types of action: the first one aims to organise an information space for the general public on Transport and the Environment located in the centre of the City and to involve them into a public transport test program. And the second one aims to foster the carpooling among the employees of the local administration by informing them on the urban transport problems, the measures engaged by the City Hall and on the advantages of sharing vehicles. |  |
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Evaluation of the impacts of the campaign on attitudes and behaviours towards environmental and transport issues will be gathered through tools such as mail surveys and telephone hotlines. This case study belongs to Cluster 3 of the TAPESTRY project - Health and Environment.
Additional material
- more detailled description
- details about Vitoria (pdf file, 157kb)
- Final case study report - Information and awareness - September 2003 (pdf, 624kb)
- Final case study report - Carpooling - September 2003 (pdf, 562kb)
Contact: Mr Bruno DUBORDIEU, ET&P-CH2MHILL
