Sustainable Mobility in the Port Cities of the Southern Adriatic Area
SUMO project involves some of the main port cities of the Southern Adriatic area: Termoli, Brindisi, Bar, Valona. SUMO project aims to improve sustainability and mobility relative to the port areas of the area starting from the problems and solutions identified in the European strategy in the field of "Mobility and Transport" , through the analysis of the state of the art of the port areas involved in the project. In fact for Europe the maritime transport has been considerate a catalyst for economic development, moreover almost 90% of the EU’s external freight trade is seaborne and short sea shipping represents one third of intra-EU exchanges in terms of ton-kilometers. For this ensuring a good quality of life on Europe’s islands and in peripheral maritime regions depends on good and green maritime transport services and it is one of the important objectives of Europe Strategy. In this sense the project Sumo poses two important challenges: to improve transport efficiency, in terms of sustainability and quality, through pilot actions in each area of the program involved, and to develop an efficient planning ciruit for sustainable mobility. Thus triggering a long-term network for the program area regions involved in the project. The main objective of SUMO is to support the bodies involved in the process of transition to sustainable mobility, and at the same time favour at the final users the sustainable and efficient intermodality services. The pilot action consist of the purchase of innovative equipments able to improve sustainability and mobility in the port cities involved in the project, with a relevant reduction of air pollutant emissions. Strength of the project is the fact that all the pilot actions result replicable  and already completely defined for their implementation, in the first 6 months of the project, respecting the foreseen timeline of 18 months. Crucially, the specific competences of each PPs ensure the suistainability of the project results.