Landside Airports Accessibility
LAirA addresses the specific and significant challenge of the multimodal, smart and low carbon mobility integration of airports in the mobility systems of Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) of Central Europe (CE). Airports are assets of CE FUAs and transnational transport gateways for CE citizens. The magnitude and growing trend of air traffic (10% per year in the EU) requires actions for the landside accessibility of FUAs to airports. The EC has stated the priority of this topic in the Aviation strategy for Europe and in the Sixth Report on Economic, Social & Territorial Cohesion. LAirA reduces the energy use and the environmental impacts of transport activities in FUAs centres and hinterlands by changing mobility behaviours of airports passengers and employees and by building novel strategies of public entities in low carbon mobility planning. It targets the 56 million passengers and 39,000 employees of the airport systems in the FUAs of Vienna, Budapest, Warsaw, Milano, Stuttgart, Dubrovnik and Poznan. LAirA changes the capacities of public entities, in particular local and regional authorities and airports, of jointly planning and implementing low carbon mobility solutions in a transnational and innovative comprehensive approach which integrates seven key thematic areas: Electric mobility, Air-Rail links, Walking & cycling, Shared mobility, ITS, Wayfinding, Road Public Transport. It develops and applies Intelligent Transport System tools for low carbon mobility planning, builds non pre-existent transnational training courses and models for the capacities of the entities of the public sector and ensures the partners’ adoption of financially viable action plans and strategies in low carbon mobility according to their statutory missions. The LAirA transnational added value lies in the EU mutual learning & training process in which CE public entities transnationally shape and locally apply low carbon mobility solutions for the benefit of CE Functional Urban Areas.