CIVITAS PLUS Sustainable mobility and social inclusion in Perugia - Italy Dr Laurie PICKUP

CIVITAS PLUS

Sustainable mobility and social inclusion in Perugia - ItalyDr Laurie PICKUP

Lucia Cristea

Coimbra, Portugal

Meeting VANGUARD?MODERN workshop on social inclusion

Date 23/24° March 2012

Messages to remember from this presentation

• The mobility system developed in Perugia is innovative and is producing real changes in mobility behaviour, positive attitudes to sustainable mobility and significant latent change – European best practice.

• The transport system is designed and operates for the full social inclusion of its citizens and visitors, in harmony with the strategic plan for the city region and the SUMP. A small voluntary sector addresses some special mobility needs.

• The pricing system on public transport is heavily subsidised and is designed to favour a modal shift to public transport, with further mobility benefits to the young and old. There will be future pressure here.

• The mobility stakeholders have been reorganised to meet the challenges but there is less integration with social policy departments

• More needs to be done to understand the mobility issues faced by marginalised groups and the impacts that low mobility is having on their life style

Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2012

2. Where is Perugia?

UMBRIA REGION

92 Municipalities

Inhabitants: 843.359

Surface area: 63.156 km2

MUNICIPALITY OF PERUGIA Inhabitants: aprox. 160.000

Surface area: 450 km2


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3. Perugia is historic and steeped in culture


Perugia – Urban growth

Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2011PERUGIA 1925

PERUGIA today

5. Who are the Perugini?

Perugia has a social composition and trends similar to many European cities:

• Balanced population

• High young adult population due to 2 universities

• A mixed working population serving a regional capital with some mixed light industry

• Increasing unemployment, particularly among younger persons

• Rapidly increasing minority of immigrants from Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America), many of whom comprise a growing under-class (not ghettoised) – and Western European pensioners in the provincial area

• A transient tourist population


Population of Perugia – November 2011

Age group

Men Women Total

0-6 5789 (3%) 5266 (3%) 11055 (7%)

7-18 8858 (5%) 8454 (5%) 17312 (10%)

19-40 23838 (14%) 23914 (14%) 47752 (28%)

41-65 27688 (16%) 30776 (18%) 58464 (34%)

65+ 14531 (9%) 20298 (12%) 34829 (21%)

Total 80704 (48%) 88708 (52%) 169412 (100%)


Perugia Population

Family size – 72,952 households (average 2.3 persons/HH)

38% - 1 person

24% - 2 persons18% - 3 persons (previously larger and thus ageing)

14% - 4 persons

6% - 5 or more persons

Immigrants – May 2011: 16,527 (10% of total population)

55% Eastern European states21% South America10% China and South East Asia14% AfricaNon-registered?No strong spatial clustering


Social inclusion in Perugia

• Impact of the economic crisis (Household expenditure on mobility)

• Umbria not the most ‘excluded’ of Italian regions, but there do exist social issues in the city that the Comune are addressing:

- Excluded young people as a result of unemployment

- An under-class of unofficial migrants

- Rising crime rates associated with poverty (CBD)

- Insecurity


Perceptions of city centre social decay

Citizen survey 2011 (and 2009) – visual perception:

• Drug takers – 46% (66%)

• Drug sellers – 55% (61%)

• Syringes – 27% (47%)

• Vandalism – 42% (43%)

• Loud disruptive behaviour – 31% (43%)

• Drunks – 22% (24%)

• Beggars – NDA (20%)

• Fighting – 13% (14%)

Not feeling secure in the city centre – 9% (23%)


Perugia strategic plan 2003-2013

7 strategic lines:

• Improve regional accessibility

• Enhance enterprise, innovation

• and internationalisation

• Increase social inclusion, quality of life and security for citizens

- Priority 1: promote policies and actions for full inclusion (social solidarity)

- Priority 2: pre-school education (CIVITAS measure)

- Priority 3: support for the elderly (voluntary sector – AGRADU)

• Revitalise the historic city centre

• Reinforce cultural excellence

• Integrate environment, culture, sport and tourism

• Better regional integration of stakeholders


Mobility planning in Perugia

Urban Mobility Plan 2008

• Promote the values of sustainable mobility

• Integrate stakeholders (UM and Task Force)

• Introduction of Mini-Metro

• Full integration of the bus network and escalator system

• Parking management and enforcement to be increased

• City centre enforcement to be

completed

• Traffic management and

information to be enhanced


Car mobility in Perugia

• High car ownership

• Low car occupancy (1.18 persons per car)

• Manageable congestion levels

• Full urban traffic control system

• New systems for VMS information and real

time risk monitoring and signal priority

• Increasing costs since 2008 (motoring and parking)

• High impacts on low income car users

Acceptance of park and ride Latent desire for car pooling provision Less habitual choice of cars for trip making Desire to be ‘greener’


Escalator and lift modes in the city


CIVITAS Result Workshop 13th of September, 2011 Brussels Lucia Cristea

Perugia

Malmo, 30/09/2010

CIVITAS Result Workshop 13th of September, 2011 Brussels Lucia Cristea

Perugia

Medieval walls

Malmo, 30/09/2010RENAISSANCE 12/11/2008 Stefania Papa

Bus and rail provision


How mode use has changed 2008-2012


% Changes in attitudes to mobility 2008-2012 – car drivers

Top 2 quintiles 2009 2012

I behave in an environmentally

friendly way

83 89

My next car will be greener

67 61

I simply take the car every day

50 44

Choose daily which mode to use

26 50

Access to public transport in

residential choice

52 64


% Changes in attitudes to mobility 2008-2012 – car drivers

Top 2 quintiles 2009 2012

Priority parking for green cars

42 51

Bus priority at junctions

28 43

Support the limited traffic zone (LTZ)

66 70

Parking fares are reasonable

14 8

Public transport is cheaper than cars

50 39


Inclusive mobility policies

• Ability - Access to mobility modes and facilities

• Opportunity - Access to activities

- Physical

- Virtual

• Economic access

• Overcoming social and psychological barriers to access


Access to mobility modes and facilities

• The Mini-Metro/ escalator /lift system is fully accessible

• Interchanges fully accessible

• Priority parking spaces and assistance for disabled in key locations

• Buses are clean fuel but not low floor access

• New trains have low floor access

• New navigable city centre routes for blind persons

• High penetration of internet access apart from among marginalised groups


Access to activities

• Access to education is guaranteed through dedicated clean bus vehicles and regular services. School ‘rush hours’ are the primary congestion periods.

• Access to employment (locations/hours)

- Municipality, Provincia, Regione employees

- Two universities

- Access to light industrial and retail centres

- No specific mobility schemes for job search

- CIVITAS Internet measure on employment and professional ‘notice boards’

• Access to shopping and retail centres

- City centre (new market development)

- Periphery


Economic access

• Heavily subsidised public transport for all (increasing patronage)

- UNICO Perugia (UP) ticket

- Monthly season tickets

- No daily ticket

- No concessions for disabled of working age, carers or job seekers

• Free and subsidised mobility for the young and old

• Free escalator/lift system

• Car costs increasing (running, insurance, maintenance etc.)

• Parking charges and enforcement increasing with the demand management policy


Overcoming social and psychological barriers to access in Perugia

• ‘Trapped’ communities and marginalised groups.

• Prevents a normal level of engagement

• City centre limited traffic zone (LTZ) effective in improving crime management and safety perception

• Improvements to the safety and security of bus stop environments and interchanges, including Wi-Fi access

• City gradients remain an issue for the more frail pedestrians (fear of falling and injury)

• Privacy remains an important issue for car drivers

• Dependency - Reliance on extended family for mobility support

• Fear of discrimination among some immigrant communities


Perugia – Urban growth

Coimbra, 23/24 March, 2011PERUGIA 1925

PERUGIA today

Messages to remember from this presentation

• The mobility system developed in Perugia is innovative and is producing real changes in mobility behaviour, positive attitudes to sustainable mobility and significant latent change – European best practice.

• The transport system is designed and operates for the full social inclusion of its citizens and visitors, in harmony with the strategic plan for the city region and the SUMP. A small voluntary sector addresses some special mobility needs.

• The pricing system on public transport is heavily subsidised and is designed to favour a modal shift to public transport, with further mobility benefits to the young and old. There will be future pressure here.

• The mobility stakeholders have been reorganised to meet the challenges but there is less integration with social policy departments

• More needs to be done to understand the mobility issues faced by marginalised groups and the impacts that low mobility is having on their life style


Thank you

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CIVITAS PLUS Sustainable mobility and social inclusion in Perugia - Italy Dr Laurie PICKUP