Last 24th and 25th may, 2016 took place the 4th official R4E Project meeting in Istanbul. Once again, the meeting was structured acoording to the planned workshops, in this occasion we had the opportunity to share each others the desired future scenarios of all cities in the focus areas of the project (Smart buildings, Smart mobility and Smart urban spaces) and agreeg what are the main specific topics and strategies that are common for all. The chosen topics will define and characterized the roadmaps to be done onwards.

During the sessions, we had the opportunity to pool ideas and insights about what actions must be implemented in every focus area.

Mobility experts on session exploring the desired future scenarios

Bernadette Bergsma from Eindhoven Municipality (project coordinator) during the steering committee meeting  

The Municipaliy of Istanbul arranged some really interesting study tours in order to share with the rest of the partners remarkable facilities and projects related to smart mobility among those we can stand out the followings:

Traffic Control Center. Link here

Istanbul Traffic control center- IMM’s Merter Additional Service Building 

Study visit: Metrobüs (Edirnekapı-Burhaniye), Marmaray (Yenikapı) => Smart Public Transport

R4E project partners at Metrobüs headquarters 

Finally, on behalf of the rest of the project partners we must express our warmest thanks to the Istanbul team, Esma, Seyma, Ali and Ugur, for their huge effort to have made everything goes smoothly and their kindness and hospitality.

Istanbul partners. From left to right, Esma DÍLEK (Assitant Traffic manager), Şeyma İSTENGİR and Ali BAYINDIR

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