Portugal

EPOMM New Member

IMTT (National Focal Point)

ECOMM2009 - San Sebastian, 15th May 2009

1. What is IMTT

2. Mobility Management in Portugal –the past and the present

3. Mobility Management in Portugal – the near future

4. Why to join EPOMM

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What is IMTT

Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes Terrestres, I.P., is

the central administration body responsible for the
coordination of inland transport with jurisdiction over the
national territory.

IMTT integrates a functionally independent rail regulatory

unit in charge of the economic and technical regulation of
the rail sector.
IMTT - Objectives

To offer a unified approach to the administration of inland transport, thus

improving the efficiency of the services rendered to citizens and businesses;

To promote intermodality in order to optimize the global performance of public

transport, thus increasing its use and reducing the congestion caused by
individual transport;

To ensure general coordination of the land transport system by promoting

and supporting the implementation of startegies that contribute to:

•The satisfaction of mobility needs throgh quality services

•The competitiveness of the sector’s undertakings, based on efficiency
•The qualification of drivers and other transport professionals
•The efectiveness and safety of equipments
•The protection of user’s rights
•The innovation in the sector
•The reduction of environmental impacts deriving from transport activities
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Mobility Management in Portugal
A few facts
• Area: 92.400 km2
• Total Population 10.617.575 (2007)
• Metropolitan areas population Lisboa 2.808.414 (2007); Porto
1.679.854 (2007; 42,3% of total population
Population * Nº cities

<= 20000 66

20001 a 50000 19

50001 a 100000 3

>100000 2

TOTAL 90

* Excluindo Lisboa, Porto e AM`s

• Modal Share - 25% by foot, 21% PT bus; 3,5% PT rail;46,5% car; 3%

motocycle or bycicle
• 62 cities with Urban Public Transport Services (2008)
• Transport Authorities: Lisboa and Porto Metropolitan Authorities being
established (2009); Municipalities with jurisdiction over urban
perimeters; IMTT over the remaining territory.
• Political-administrative levels: decentralised governmental bodies in 5
regions (NUTS II); Municipalites 308 (278 Continent and 30 Islands);
• There is no intermediate political level (regional) between the national
and the local levels
 Mobility Management in Portugal – II
Last two decades

Portugal gave a major importance to the

construction of infrastructures, specially road
infrastructures. We left of a situation of great
delay, in this area.

Additionally and specially during the nineties,

major investments were made in rail systems –
train and metro – (and are still being made) and in
the improvement of quality standards rendered by
the public transport systems in general:

Fare integration, introduction of contactless

ticketing, provision of integrated user information
on all transport modes (public transport information
sites Transpor (national – IMTT), Lisboa (Transpor
Lis) and Porto (Itinerarium); real time information
systems and implementation of other ITS.

In “Portugal, 20 anos de Integração Europeia”, editado por INE, 2007

 Mobility Management in Portugal – III
2 The beginning of MM

• The need for Mobility Management was only recognised as an important tool for sustainable
mobility ten years ago.
Several municipalities, on its own or in association with other, began developing Mobility
Studies, and as a result they started:

• Increasing their pedestrian areas and adopting parking management / charging

measures in central areas; introducing measures intended to moderate circulation,
specially close to schools;

• Developing urban transport services, serving the city and blue lines in historical centres,
with electrical vehicles, in some cases;

• Implementing a collective taxi system in low density areas, etc.

• The Portuguese State has been promoting and granting technical and financial support to
these measures, although there is no conceptual framework for its execution and financing.

• In spite of being expressive (more than 40 mobility studies and several measures already
implemented), the results fall still short of our expectations and desires.

• There is, however, a set of new very promising factors.

 Mobility Management in Portugal – IV
Emerging Practices

• Over the last 5 years, municipalities have multiplied initiatives favouring soft modes and
non conventional transport:

•Bycicle lanes and cycling promotional network:

•Carsharing and bike-sharing systems
•Carpooling schemes and networks
•Pedibus
• We are anticipating measures and projects which limit and moderate the circulation
and parking of individual transport. The Road Code legislation is being amended in
order to contemplate the adoption of restrictive measures concerning the
circulation of heavy polluting vehicles, traffic calming areas (30km/h zones, home
zones, zone de rencontre) and measures in favour of the more vulnerable users –
pedestrians and bicycles.
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Mobility Management in Portugal – the near future
Very recently the Government established a large number of measures in several
governmental Planning Instruments (National Plan for Energetic Efficiency, National
Plan for Climate Change; Air Quality Improvement (Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan
Areas), National Plan for Accessibility Promotion, and other) and also in legal texts.

From those measures we would like to highlight :

• The obligation to develop Mobility Plans in major cities («district capitals»):

• The obligation to develop Mobility Plans in companies with over 500

employees

• Fiscal benefits for companies which acquire multimodal passes for their
employees

• The development of a National Plan / Programme for soft modes

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At this moment we are treading a new path and we are aware that further more needs
to be made to meet the dynamism that can be observed in the behaviour of political
actors / decision makers and society in general.

We still need to:

•Develop a national reference framework and create guidelines for Sustainable Mob.;

•Mobility plans and mobility management measures;

•Promote the development of MM knowledge;

•Create national programmes which grant financial support and reward cities that

adopt measures in favour of sustainable mobility.

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Our long term objectives are, in a gradual but consistent manner,:

•Reduce the need for motorized mobility, particularly through Urban Planning, but
also through other measures;

•Increase the attractiveness of PT and the share of soft modes in modal share;

•Increase the energetic efficiency of transport by reducing specific consumptions

•Eliminate the negative environmental impacts of road circulation - noise,

greenhouse gas and particulate emissions.
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Why to join EPPOM ?
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• On an institutional level, sustainable mobility integrates today the concerns of
several ministries – Territorial Management, Transports and Environment –
which have been supporting the development of municipal initiatives. The
efforts to articulate territorial planning and management with mobility and
sustainability is of special significance.

• University is presently also involved in this thematic.

We witness the multiplication of workshops, courses and platforms joining
university students and citizens around sustainable mobility.

• The promotion, divulgation and development of Mobility Management (MM) is

on the agenda in Portugal.
The decision to join EPOMM, a structure whose work we have been following
for many years, proves it.
 Why to join EPPOM ?

• Participation in the international MM networking of EPOMM

• Exchange of information, experiences and Best Practices

• To increase the number and the variety of national projects in MM;

• Promote and adjust national strategies of MM

• Integrate MM in practice and improve the MM know how

Thank You

Jorge Batista e Silva

jbsilva@imtt.pt

Contacts:
Direction of Planing, Evaluation and Inovation

Isabel Seabra
iseabra@imtt.pt

Catarina Marcelino
cmarcelino@imtt.pt