Study Tour Catalogue: A trip through Europe about mobility
management in ageing societies
 [August
2010] The 54-page booklet takes the reader on a trip across
Europe to witness innovative "soft" measures that improve
the mobility of older people by encouraging sustainable
choices. Each stop on the tour represents a real measure or
activity undertaken in a city. The cases were pulled from a
pool of more than 130 good-practice examples identified by
the AENEAS project.
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Transport in Kraków without mysteries: new brochure is now
available
 [July
2010] The brochure “Transport in Kraków without mysteries”
(in Polish: Krakowski Transport bez Tajemnic) has been
published as one of Kraków’s measures in the AENEAS project.
The brochure serves seniors in Kraków by providing
comprehensive information on Kraków's transport system in
the context of the needs of older generation.
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AENEAS training workshop
on cycling and health
in an ageing society:
presentations and workshop report now available
 [June
2010] Active travel, and particularly cycling, can
contribute to better health and increase of life expectancy.
These facts are well known and have been promoted by
different scientific studies and European funded mobility
projects, such as Lifecycle, Active Access or Vianova. But
what about older people? Is it not too dangerous for them to
cycle, and do the positive impacts of cycling apply also at
this stage of life?
The fourth AENEAS workshop looked into these issues. You can
now access the workshop report and all the presentations from the event.
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New seats
for older passengers in Krakow’s buses
 [June
2010] In the second half of June 2010 another AENEAS measure
was launched in Krakow. About 50 seats were marked with a
special pictogram symbolizing the older person in the buses
of the local public transport provider, Mobilis. In one bus
1-4 seats were converted.
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Older people's mobility: special coverage in European video
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New AENEAS newsletter: focus on multimodal mobility
 [June 2010]
The AENEAS newsletter 'Keep Moving' is the number one information source of news,
trends and events in the field of older people's mobility. The
June 2010
issue has a thematic focus on multimodal mobility. Besides, it includes information about
local and European activities as well as AENEAS news. It also contains a
collection of related events and tips for mobility. If you have any news or
events to share with your colleagues in Europe -
write to us!
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Helping older
people is our old tradition!
New awareness raising campaign for Krakow citizens
[May 2010] Kraków would
like to widely promote the appropriate
behaviors towards older people in public
transport. Therefore a campaign was started,
which is targeted primarily towards the
young generation. The
first step of the awareness raising campaign took place in December
2009, with a series of meetings in schools. Then, on 19th May 2010
Krakow has launched the outdoor stage of the campaign. The famous
graphic artist, Mr. Andrzej Mleczko was requested to design the
graphics of the campaign.
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Extended personal mobility for everyone: walking campaign in
Odense
 [May
2010] In spring 2010 a large walking campaign was launched in
Odense in order to encourage senior citizens to walk more in
their daily lives. From April 12th – 18th senior citizens was
presented with more than 100 different activities related to
walking. Guided tours, exhibitions, training activities, games
and sports were designed to show how enjoyable walking can be
in many aspects.
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New Assistance Service for Older Passengers in Krakow
[May 2010] In order to
increase the attractiveness of public
transport for older people and to enable
them to travel independently, Krakow has
started another AENEAS measure this month.
Nine young people, called “assistants” have
started their new job at two integrated public
transport stops (bus+tram) in the city
centre. Stops are located near one of the
biggest marketplaces in Krakow, where older
passengers are travelling a lot.
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Dynamic increase of - especially older - public transport users
in Donostia-San Sebastián
[April 2010] In 2009 the
local public transport provider has
registered almost 2% growth in the number of
passengers - for the fifth consecutive
years. Within this overall figure, the
number of older passengers has increased by
10%. Overall, this increase has yielded 2
million euro extra income for the service
provider and 8.5 million euro savings for
the city.
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Mobility days and guided tours in Salzburg
[March 2010] Since the
project has started in August 2008 many
events concerning mobility management for
older people took place in Salzburg. Last
autumn the annual Mobility Day found the
general approval of the Salzburg senior
citizens. The guided city tours were
especially popular
because here the needs of older people were
placed in the focus.
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