CIVITAS (European Union)

CIVITAS is an initiative of the European Union to implement sustainable, clean and (energy) efficient urban transport measures. The initiative is co-ordinated by cities.

Etymology

CIVITAS is an acronym of CIty-VITAlity-Sustainability.[1]

History
  • CIVITAS I started in early 2002 (within the Fifth European Community Framework Programme), with 19 cities clustered in 4 demonstration projects.
  • CIVITAS II started in early 2005 (within the Sixth Framework Programme), consisting of 17 cities in 4 demonstration projects.
  • CIVITAS PLUS started in late 2008 (within the Seventh Framework Programme), with 25 cities in 5 demonstration projects.
  • CIVITAS PLUS II started in 2012, with 8 cities in 2 demonstration projects (lab projects).
  • CIVITAS 2020 started in 2016, with 17 cities in 3 demonstration projects (lab projects).
gollark: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride
gollark: I think its JSON library once used `recover` a bit internally, i.e. exception-based error handling, essentially.
gollark: For example, the magic `select` thing, `make`/`new`, its horrible monotonic times hack...
gollark: It's actually complicated and relies heavily on magic like Python.
gollark: WRONG!

References
  1. About CIVITAS Archived 2011-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (CIVITAS' official site)

See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.