Les Gets, laboratory for sustainable mobility
- Best Practice
- Topics
- Mobility
- Short description
- * Project updated on 25 April 2007 according to information from the project contact persons * The activities in Les Gets are run in the frame of the european project MOBILALP (Interreg III B Alpine Space). "Pearls of the Alps" are particularly attractive places in the Alps which offer high quality services for tourists (in all fiels, including mobility). As a Pearl of the Alps, les Gets aims at reducing the use of cars. To do this, divers projects: soft mobility brochure, "footzones", shuttels in various directions. Several studies are also being carried out on the improvement of soft mobility in the Abondance valley and a mobility management center.
- Project executive
- Conseil Général of Haute-Savoie and 5 concerned communities and clusters : Syndicat de la vallée d'Abondance, Syndicat du massif des Aravis, Communauté de communes de la vallée d'Aulps, Commune de Morzine, Commune des Gets. These are rural and mountainous areas, with ski resorts. Most tourists come by car, inducing numerous problems. Along with communities in A, D, I, Ch, these French communities have decided to develop alternativ mobility systems and name themselves "Pearls of the Alps".
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