Improving mobility in the city port and combating urban congestion :
1Encouraging the development of soft, multimodal and collaborative mobility, notably for commuting.
2Developing soft solutions for proximity-based urban logistics, by promoting the use of waterways.
3Promoting the use of waterways, rail or other non-fossil-based modes of transport within the City Port territory for shipping goods.
4Reducing the negative impacts of periods of peak activity in the City Port territory by any means possible.
Connecting to a SDG
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Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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Sustainable cities and communities
The associated good practices
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Saint-Nazaire (France): new spaces for the port and promenade
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Vancouver (Canada): access links integrated into the city
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Marseilles (France): a landscaped boulevard for the entire waterfront
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Paris (France): transport on the River Seine to avoid tens of thousands trucks every month
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Valparaiso (Chile): a more efficient port and optimised spaces for the city
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Helsinki (Finland): smarter transport
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Barcelona (Spain): new transport links for reaching new uses
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Tangiers (Morocco) : from the Port to the City by… cable car
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In Buenos Aires (Argentina), a new, smoother, safer corridor
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Rotterdam (Netherlands) wants to get 180,000 trucks off its roads
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Miami (USA): a port tunnel to get trucks out of downtown
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