SUITS Webinar

The SUITS webinar will discuss strategies to maximise the effectiveness and sustainability of urban transport measures through new funding models and opportunities for new business models. The webinar will also focus on different options to finance and procure transport measures (covering capital, revenue, and maintenance funding). The webinar is targeted at local authorities (mainly transport and mobility departments) and other stakeholders, whose work focuses to increase the investment efficiency of public and private funds and optimise opportunities to access regional development funds and will take place on June 18, 2018 at 14.30. 

The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Frederic Rudolph, project Co-ordinator (Division Future Energy and Mobility Sructures, Research Unit Mobility and International Cooperation, Wuppertal Institute). Speakers are:

• Aleksei Lugovoi, Senior Transport Planner at Arcadis.
  He will present existing funding mechanisms and approaches to sustainable financing used for transport and mobility projects in small and medium cities, including capital, revenue and maintenance funding, where appropriate.
• Stefan Roseanu, Senior Consultant at Integral Consulting R&D
  He will introduce the new EU legislative framework for public procurement. He will guide local authorities how to apply schemes for innovative procurement to successfully plan and implement innovative sustainable mobility measures.
• Iana Dulskaia, Researcher at Eurokleis Research, Innovation & Finance
  She will provide insights to modern mobility trends identifying the most successful mobility services and their business models in the sector. She will also focus on how to enhance a mobility project's attractiveness to obtain external funding.

The webinar will be complemented by an e-learning course. The e-learning course will be available for six weeks to deepen and strengthen the knowledge gained in the webinar. Certificates of completion will be issued for the e-learning course. Further informaton can be found in the links bewlow.