The Project

The SUITS project is a four-year research and innovation action, intending to increase the capacity building of Local Authorities and transport stakeholders and to transfer learning to smaller sized cities, making them more effective and resilient to change in the judicious implementation of sustainable transport measures. SUITS is one of the three projects of the EU’s CIVITAS 2020 initiative focusing on sustainable urban mobility plans.

The project will produce and provide to small and medium-sized cities a set of tools on planing, financing and implementing sustainable transport measures and will support the enhancement of the capacity of nine cities in seven EU countries to address efficiently the new challenges of urban mobility and to foster investments in sustainable transport.

The wider context

SUITS is one of three CIVITAS SUMPs-related projects, alongside CIVITAS PROSPERITY and CIVITAS SUMPs-UP. The three projects bring together more than 80 actors working towards a common goal: to support cities across Europe to develop and implement Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans.

By enhancing cooperation among the Member States, the CIVITAS SUMP projects makes it possible to lower the barriers to the implementation of more energy-efficient and sustainable urban mobility planning in an integrated way that would not be possible within one country alone.

CIVITAS PROSPERITY	CIVITAS INITIATIVE	CIVITAS SUMPs-UP
There is a gap between the needs and demands of the cities that should develop and implement SUMPs, and higher administrative institutions that should prepare the ground and provide (national) support programmes to encourage cities to develop and implement SUMPs. CIVITAS PROSPERITY helps to close this gap by facilitating a unique approach of involvement and activation.	CIVITAS is a network of cities for cities dedicated to cleaner, better transport in Europe and beyond. Since it was launched by the European Commission in 2002, the CIVITAS Initiative has tested and implemented over 800 measures and urban transport solutions as part of demonstration projects in more than 80 Living Lab cities Europe-wide.	The SUMPs-UP project assists planning authorities to overcome the barriers that prevent or make it difficult to implement SUMPs, by enabling them to embrace SUMP as the European-wide strategic planning approach, especially in countries where take-up is low and the negative effects of transport are severe.

The SUITS Objective

The wider context