The project European Cycling Challenge, of which the Algarve has been a part since 2015, was awarded, earlier this week, with the CIVITAS 2016 Award, the highest European distinction for innovative projects of sustainable urban mobility.
This award highlighted the role of the European Cycling Challenge in the public participation category, especially for having taken advantage of online applications to assess the needs of those who travel by bicycle.
The initiative, which consisted of in a competition of regular bike users, this year mobilized 52 European metropolitan areas, which, by tracking the approximately 4 million kilometers cycled over the month of May by 46 thousand registered users, benefited from detailed maps of the routes used by cyclists.
The Algarve Intermunicipal Community (AMAL), which promotes this initiative in the Algarve and was the first Portuguese intermunicipal entity to participate, says that this award is an «incentive for the region, which recently signed a commitment to sustainable urban mobility».
AMAL adds that the Algarve is "armed with the ambitious task of designing a future in which travel will be more efficient, inclusive and sustainable".
O VAMUS - Algarve Sustainable Urban Mobility Project it is actually completing the process of diagnosing mobility in the region. After the online survey carried out until the 22nd of September, the three teams set up to collect information from the various partners are compiling and analyzing the data so that they can present it on the 26th of October, in a forum dedicated to laying the foundations. of the action plans to be adopted.
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