European Mobility Week Award 2008 awarded to Koprivnica

Koprivnica (Croatia) has been awarded the 2008 European Mobility Week Award.

Koprivnica made its urban areas more sustainable by promoting soft transport modes, such as walking and cycling.  It also launched a three-year programme called ‘Streets for People’ which will work towards making the city accessible to all, promoting new alternative fuels for public transport vehicles and reallocating road space to non-motorized traffic.

This award was created to reward local authorities’ activities in the framework of European Mobility Week, which aims at encouraging citizens to change their travel behaviour and shift to more sustainable modes of transport.

To learn more about European Mobility Week, and this year’s Award ceremony, please go to www.mobilityweek.eu.