Author: maksibec

Our today’s lifestyle is far from sustainable and will change over the next years and decades. The EU’s goal is to become a low-carbon economy until 2050. As almost all of our societies’ and today’s lifestyle energy demand comes from the areas of housing, mobility, and nutrition change will happen in these areas. It can already be seen across the cities of Europe. London is hoping to become the future cycling capital of Europe, Paris is succeeding ever more in restricting inner city car traffic, many cities re-invent tramways such as in Barcelona with its grass-lined tramways and Marseille with its marine design tramways depicting the city’s identity, many Eastern Europeans cities still benefit from never having removed tramways from their cityscapes, Budapest is rightfully proud of its metro history, and Ljubljana prioritised cycling infrastructure back in the day of socialist urban planning and is today even strengthening its efforts. With ever more people moving to cities these are the right place to innovate and thanks to a city’s high density sustainable transport and delivery is just a little truly innovative thinking away. But what about the countryside? How can we ensure transport and delivery that are sustainable in economic, ecological, and social terms? Continue reading “Today’s Concepts for a Sustainable and Mobile Tomorrow in Rural Areas”