As part of the Spanish Mobility Strategy, the General Director of Quality and Environmental Assessment of the MARM, Jesús Huertas García, has met today with the members of the Metropolitan Mobility Observatory (MMO) to continue working in the Observatory´s 2011 annual report and to prepare the VII Technical Conference that will be held in Palma de Mallorca next April, and in which experts will analyze and exchange information about intelligent transport systems.
In his first speech as General Director in this forum, Jesús Huertas has stressed that getting some good guidelines for sustainable mobility will help to improve air quality objectives which we must fulfill unequivocally. Therefore, the General Direction will work to encourage new incorporations to the MMO, not only institutions but also new plans, initiatives, indicators etc., and any activity that could improve the integration of environment into transport and mobility policies.
As well, he has assessed the effort made every year by the transport authorities and municipalities, providing voluntarily all the information required for the elaboration of the annual report, document with detailed information on mobility in the main Spanish areas, and that allows consolidating the indicators used by different governments to define mobility policies more sustainable and fruitful.
The Directive of the European Parliament 2010/40/UE establishes a framework for the implementation of intelligent transport systems in the road transport sector and for the interfaces with other modes of transport.
These systems are based on the use of computing and telecommunications, aimed to solve the problems of transport and mobility, so that, today, they are essential tools for planning and management of public transport, whose display contributes to increase efficiency and security, and at the same time to low environmental impact.
In the framework of the meeting, the General Director expressed that a good dive in these technologies will ensure that all managers can use these systems in an efficient and balanced way.
The Metropolitan Mobility Observatory (MMO) is made up of 21 Public Transport (PTA) of the main Spanish metropolitan areas, the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. Other collaborators include the National Rail Board RENFE, the Institute for Energy Diversification and Savings (I.D.A.E.), the Spanish Railway Foundation, the Association of Urban Transport Collectives, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, and the CCOO Trade Union Federation.
