Mobility Award for Danube Cycle Plans
Environment Agency Austria wins Austria's largest competition for sustainable transport and mobility with project for more people cycling in the Danube region
From left to right: Willi Novak (VCÖ), Leonore Gewessler (BMK), Willy Raimund (Umweltbundesamt), Robert Thaler (BMK), Andreas Matthä (ÖBB)
On Friday, 24 September 2021, the VCÖ Mobility Award for innovative projects and ideas for sustainable transport and mobility was presented. The Danube Cycle Plans project, led by the Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt), won the first prize inthe category 'active mobility'. In the awarded project, partners from nine countries develop strategies to make cycling in the Danube region more attractive and an indispensable component of sustainable mobility in the bordering countries.
Danube Cycle Plans is thus honored as one of the projects that are preparing the ground today for sustainable and socially just mobility tomorrow and beyond. Together with representatives from the ministries, regional stakeholders work on ways to improve the cycling infrastructure, to embed cycling in the transport mix in the region, and to establish cycling as an environmentally friendly, health-promoting means of transport.
The Danube Cycle Plans project runs until the end of 2022. It is supported by the Austrian Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, and funded by the EU Interreg program Danube Transnational Programme.
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