Emission-free urban transport - Assistance for Albania launched, Transport Community: Data-based policies
The Transport Community has officially launched technical assistance for the new regional platform "Clean Bus - Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans", an initiative that aims to support zero-emission urban transport and modern mobility planning in the Western Balkan countries, including our country.
This platform comes to address an important gap in the region, which is the lack of a common system for collecting, visualizing and comparing data on clean buses and urban mobility.
According to the Transport Community Secretariat, the initiative is expected to bring concrete benefits to the Western Balkan countries, such as: policies based on standardized EU data, stronger cooperation between ministries, municipalities, operators and financial institutions, capacity building through common tools and training modules, as well as greater transparency.
"These instruments will help national and local authorities to design stronger strategies, attract funding and demonstrate progress to EU institutions and citizens," the press release states.
The Head of the Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community, Matej Zakonjšek, stressed that this initiative is directly linked to the regional objectives for clean mobility and to the new requirements of European policies. He recalled that with the new TEN-T regulation, European cities must draft Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, switch to zero-emission fleets and ensure measurable performance monitoring by 2030.
"The Western Balkan countries must move in the same direction to remain competitive and compliant with the EU acquis," said Zakonjšek.
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