Steering Committee of the programme "Urban mobility in the
large Mediterranean cities"

The meeting of the steering committee of the programme “Urban Mobility in the large Mediterranean cities” was organized by the Blue Plan at the Villa Valmer in Marseille, on the 24th of March 2009. The French Agency for the Development (AFD), the MedCites’ network, the French representative of the think-tank for the settlement of the World Bank in Marseille and the qualified personalities – members of the committee- took part to the works.

This second meeting of the steering committee permitted proceeding to the programme’s state of progress. The studies on the cities of Tunis, Istanbul, Cairo and Alep are finished. The studies on Alger and Tanger are at work and will be achieved by September 2009. The study on Lattaquié will be started in April 2009.

The steering committee also debated on the organization modes of the exchanges’ regional forum, which should mark the end of the programme at work and offer a regional space of valorization to the studies’s results. Considering the importance of the urban mobility theme in the Mediterranean agenda, especially under the impulsion of the Union for the Mediterranean and the constitution of a multipartners plateform around the office of the World Bank in Marseille, this regional forum will gather experts and policymakers of urban transport area, spatial planning and environment protection. Scheduled for January 2010, its aim will be to extract action trails for the Mediterranean Commission for the Sustainable Development (MCSD).

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