Commitments for urban mobility

Cities are a concentration of people and economic activity. It is essential to find solutions that reconcile the quality of mobility with air quality.

Cities are a concentration of people and economic activity. It is essential to find solutions that reconcile the quality of mobility with air quality in order to meet the needs of society and its citizens. This is an issue that concerns everyone and calls for concerted action from the different players in mobility: consumers, governments and the mobility industry, including carmakers. Carmakers have to take this issue into consideration.
PSA Peugeot Citroën is active on several levels.
First and foremost, the Group is active in the area of technological innovation for vehicles, with a view to reducing emissions and noise pollution. It is also seeking to develop new ways to use cars and commercial vehicles and new solutions to optimize the journeys made.
Last, PSA Peugeot Citroën is playing its role as a corporate citizen by sharing its technical expertise with government bodies and setting up an entity where all players in urban mobility can share their ideas and action.

For instance, the Group has founded in 2000 “the Institute for cities on the move” : his role is to bring together the different players of urban life, with their skills and their different approaches. The idea is to acquire detailed information on urban reality and to provide a basis on which to introduce and trial innovative solutions. A scientific and steering committee coordinates the work of the Institute. It is made up of around twenty members from a wide variety of professional backgrounds, but who are all in touch with the realities of urban life: sociologists, scientists, town planners, company managers, developers of social projects, marketing and media people.
Through this diverse membership, the Institute is a meeting place for people who plan cities, people who are involved in them and people who live there.
China meet a quick and large scale process of urbanization. This is why IVM organized in 2001 in the city of Chengdu a workshop entitled "Urban growth, transportation and inter-modality". During a full day, Chinese and European experts, representatives of cities and companies, architects, sociologists talked together in order to exchange their experience on this topics. The results of this international meeting will be published soon, both in French and in Chinese. Following this event, professor Lu Huapu, Director of the Institute of Transportation Engineering in the Tsinghua University was invited by IVM in France.