The theme chosen by the European Commission for this year’s campaign is “Energy efficiency” and the motto for this and the coming years is “Mix and move!” and aims to encourage the population to combine different modes of sustainable travel when reaching your destinations, thus promoting the intermodality of means of transport.
On the occasion of this event, the Generalitat has planned different initiatives and proposals that will conclude on September 22, with Car-Free Day, when, thanks to the Hui rests the cotxe initiative, free transportation will be offered on Metrovalencia, TRAM d ‘Alacant, Castelló TRAM and Metrobus.
The objective of the Generalitat is to promote mobility habits for the entire society and remember that public transport is a completely safe means of facilitating urban and interurban travel.
The goal is to achieve balanced mobility that is functional, safe, universal and healthy. Thanks to mobility, citizens progress, so mobility is a factor of progress.
Within these initiatives, the Generalitat maintains in force the main advantages it offers to encourage the use of regional public transport services. The 50% reduction in the price of multi-journey passes and tickets will remain in force until January 31, 2024 and free travel for young people up to 31 years of age will remain valid until December 31.
The Minister of Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territorial Policy, Salomé Pradas, has indicated that these measures aim to “alleviate the difficult economic and social situation that Spain is going through and that, in particular, severely affects our Community.”
As an example, he recalled that we are facing “skyrocketing inflation”, which “has a direct impact on the cost of living of millions of Valencians and, at the same time, on the disposable income of families”. “These measures are an invitation to the entire Valencian society to learn about the advances in public transport and adopt a more sustainable and balanced mobility pattern,” she concluded.
These actions on the fare policy of regionally owned public transport apply to both public transport services managed directly by the Department of Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territory, among which are interurban lines and the TRAM system of Castelló, as well as those managed by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (FGV) and by the Valencia Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATMV), entities for which the corresponding resolutions have already been issued.
The estimated cost of adopting both measures contemplated in the decree laws, that is, those aimed at reducing the price and free transportation managed directly by the Department, will be around 7.2 million euros.
Among other initiatives, on Wednesday, September 20, the Valencian Mobility Day 2023 is celebrated, the central event of the European Mobility Week that begins with a conference and continues with the SEMcv2023 awards ceremony, for the initiatives that have stood out the most in the last year in this matter.
On Thursday the seminar on “Public Transport on Demand (TAD): present and future” will be held. In the assembly hall of the School of Civil, Canal and Port Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, regional, national and international experts on the subject are gathered to debate the problems and opportunities of this new way of conceiving mobility in areas with weak traffic and in urban/metropolitan environments with low population density.
That same afternoon, a recital for sustainable mobility was organized and the awards ceremony for the educational initiative “Hui Descansa el Cotxe (HDC) 2022-23” was announced. It is the culmination of the set of activities to disseminate sustainable mobility that It has been carried out during the year with teachers, primary students and their families.
