Parking Management Policy and Strategy for the Paramaribo Inner City

Client: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Partners: Uno, Ilaco

We developed a policy for parking management for Paramaribo Inner City, in order to provide availability of parking spaces, which encourages citizens to drive to the city centre to carry out activities, and to reduce the illegal street parking, which causes congestion and invasion of sidewalks affecting all citizens. 

Recommendations for Operations Control Centres and Operational Management and Monitoring Systems

Client: World Bank 

Partners: Concremat, Eurecat, TMB

We developed a knowledge base and obtained lessons and policy alternatives regarding digitalization and innovations applied to the Operations Control Centres (OCCs) and Operational Management and Monitoring Systems (OMMSs). We focused this project on analyzing particularly the barriers that avert the incorporation of a more efficient process of monitoring and managing the transport systems, and the best practices in cities that managed to integrate big data, machine learning processes and other innovative patterns into their transport planning and day-to-day operations.

Elaboration of the Plan and Draft of the Law for the Coastal Management Policy of the State of Sergipe, 2017

Client: Secretary of State for Tourism of the State of Sergipe – SETUR, Inter-American Development Bank

Partners: IBER-GEO, AMBIENTEC, HIDRIA

Elaboration, discussion and consolidation of the Coastal Management Plan, as well as the draft of the Law for the State Policy of Coastal Management of the State of Sergipe, including its regulatory guidelines. The proposed Coastal Management plan and policy is intended to have a state-wide scope, more directly covering the municipalities contained in the coastal zone, with important repercussions at the national level. The goals sought by the implementation of the plan and policy are, in general: to promote the sustainable development of marine and coastal areas; reduce the vulnerability of the Coastal Zone to natural hazards (such as flooding and erosion); and sustain essential ecological processes and their ecosystems, ensuring biological diversity in both the marine and coastal areas.

Cost of non-EU report in the Single Market in Transport, Single European Sky and water transport, 2014

Client: European Parliament

Partners: t33, Spatial Foresight, VVA, ÖIR

Evaluation of the possibilities for gains and/or the realisation of a ‘public good’ through common action at EU level in transport policy. Analysis of costs for citizens, business and other relevant stakeholders of the gaps in the Single European Sky and water transport legislation.

Study on support measures for the implementation of the TEN-T core network, sea ports, inland ports and inland waterway, 2017

Client: European Commission, DG MOVE

Partners: EY, BG, TNO, Fraunhofer, UoC

Lot 1: Assessment of potential of maritime and inland ports and inland waterways and of related policy measures, including industrial policy measures

The objective is to identify and analyse in a forward-looking way the existing role and the maximum realistic potential of EU waterborne transport infrastructure along the TEN-T core network and to develop recommendations for strategies and measures to realise this potential.