On 14 and 15 May Nicosia hosted the 5th European Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), bringing together all the stakeholders involved in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans.

The banner theme of this year’s event,  organized by the European Commission in collaboration with the Urban Mobility Observatory Eltis, the City Council of Nicosia and the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Public Works of the Republic of Cyprus, was “Planning for Multimodal Cities” in passenger and freight transport, with the aim of achieving more sustainable and better-functioning cities.

GMV attended as sponsor and also as an invited guest of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Public Works of the Republic of Cyprus, the authority responsible for running Cyprus’s extensive urban and suburban bus network, currently being modernized by implementation of GMV’s intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). Additionally, together with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Public Works of the Republic of Cyprus, GMV gave a paper on its ITS developments and solutions currently being implemented in the country.

The conference was attended by representatives from local and regional authorities, related politicians, urban mobility planning stakeholders, academics and other mobility professionals.