Current @ccess Projects in Spain
@ccess Bilbao
Working site for the regional round table for ITS planning and deployment in Bilbao. The Access Bilbao 2010 Roundtable is also the main coordinating unit for Bilbao 2001.
Bilbao ITS Convergence 2001
A full function Web site being developed in support of an innovative international congress and exposition on transportation, communications innovations and "ITS-plus". Being held in Bilbao in June 2001.
TransBilbao.Net
A traveler information system on the Web -- a one-stop portal for all transport information and help for traveling public in Bilbao region. Ah alpha test version of the site, on which work is in progress, can be seen at TransBilbao.Net.
Program Origins
The Ciudades Accesibles ('Accessible Cities') program in Spain came into existence as the result of a long term program of trans-border technical cooperation, exchange and joint work on a variety of sustainable transport projects that first began in the late eighties. The cooperative program was initially a spin-off of the original 1988 Ecoplan @ccess program, which eventually led to the first joint two year regional planning exercise for the greater Bilbao region in Spain, led by EcoPlan International and the Leber Group, entitled in English, Access Bilbao. This first program in turn led to a virtual string of innovative transportation initiatives in the region, involving such things as traffic calming, non-motorized transport, strategic parking schemes, and TDM packages. In time these activities began to be better known throughout Spain and Europe and led to a general spilling-over of these kinds of projects and approaches to other agencies and places in Spain.
At the first Spanish 'Accessible Cities' Congress that assembled in Granada on 30 June 1993, the Granada Declaration was presented by the EcoPlan/Leber team and officially endorsed by the conference. It was subsequently adopted as the base for the national Ciudades Accesibles program that was launched by the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Environment (MOPTMA) in late 1994 to support innovation and improvements in the transport sector, in a continuing effort to be led by local actors in Spanish regions and cities. Today, half a decade after it was first made public, the Granada Declaration continues to present a valid view of not only the problems that are being faced in Spain's cities and regions, but also the paths that we should be exploring to find creative, convivial and sustainable solutions to them.
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