Lviv, Ukraine

2022 European Mobility Week in Lviv

EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK (EMW) is the European Commission’s flagship awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility. This year’s European Mobility Week took place in almost 3.000 cities in 51 countries all around Europe.

Despite the ongoing war, 5 Ukrainian cities took part in the initiative. In Lviv, participants were able to enjoy a variety of activities to promote sustainable urban mobility in the city: thematic city tours, presentations, discussions, quizzes, and workshop opportunities about tactical urbanism.

Case Study Report Lviv

Lviv – From Streets for Cars to Streets for All
In early 2021, the City of Lviv, Ukraine has been selected as the honorable mention recipient of the Sustainable Transport Awards. The case study report, co-produced with TUMI, presents lessons learned of Lviv’s transformative journey. Lviv’s STA recognition reflects a decades-long process toward reclaiming streets from cars, for people.

Lviv best city in the category "Mobility"

The Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction, a Non-Profit civil society organization, brings together experts and activists for joint action to protect the environment. Ecoaction has launched the "Better City" - Contest 2021, in which Ukrainian cities can apply to compete against each other in the categories "Air" and "Mobility."

Lviv, together with the city of Chernihiv, won the first prize within the group 250,000+ inhabitants, in the category "Mobility".

Picture: Mykhaylo Lenchuk - City Institute, Lviv; Orest Oleskiv - Head of Transport Office; Marta Pastukh - GIZ TUMIVolt, coordinator of projects in Lviv.

The City of Lviv receives 2021 STA Honorable Mention

We are pleased that our TUMIVolt partner city Lviv, Ukraine was presented with the Honorable Mention at the 2021 Sustainable Transport Award Ceremony in February.

Lviv Mobility Research 2021

COVID-19 changed people’s daily life. These changes have also influenced the mobility behavior of citizens: from daily routes to traveling outside their community. The Municipal Institution "City Institute" together with the working group of Lviv's Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUTP) conducted a mobility research (Sociological Survey and Modal Split) funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH during the cold season of Lviv in 2021.

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP)

Since Lviv adopted its SUMP in February 2020 it has set itself on a path of creating a more people-centric city in the next decade.

First Stakeholder Meeting December 2021

The development of an E-Mobility Plan for Lviv started in August 2021 and was finalized by July 2022. The plan aims to provide a concept for electromobility and mobility from renewable energies as well as an action plan that includes use cases for Lviv by 2035. Different levels of city administration are involved in the development, and experts support the stakeholders in the development. The plan considers public transport, municipal fleets, and mobility hubs as much as private electric transport, light mobility and e-cargo bikes.

Copyright picture: Lviv EMW

Soviet Approach VS Urban Planning Approach

Today on March 4th I am happy to participate in the inspiring session on SUMP of Lviv. Urban transformation as a part of the annual symposium on shared mobility, Shared Mobility Rocks 2021.
Here is the first of two vlogs we revoiced in English for the event - Sowiet street planning vs new urban planning: from road to street design. Let's take a look at a few relatively recent projects implemented between 2010 and 2020.

What Makes an Ideal City | The Green Line

Here is the second of two vlogs we revoiced in English for the event - What does the ideal city look like? Green Line: connection for active mobility & principles of sustainable mobility.

History of mobility in Lviv by Ex Chief architect Yulian Chaplinskyy

History of mobility in Lviv by Ex Chief architect Yulian Chaplinskyy