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PURPLE has responded to the EU public consultation exercise regarding the planned Sustainable and Smart Mobility strategy due to be unveiled next year. Transport and Mobility is one of five focus areas contained in the new PURPLE three-year work plan released this summer.

PURPLE has submitted a paper alongside its response to the online survey form, much of which focused upon an evaluation of the 2011 Transport White Paper as well. The PURPLE paper can be accessed here; it sets outs a series of positions with regard to the peri-urban dimension of issues relating to mobility and transportation and focuses itsels around three themes: issues realting to the Covid crisis; dimensions of the drive towards a green transformation directly related to mobility systems and services, and; barriers to achieving sustainability in these systems and servuces which have a particular peri-urban dimension.

The hope is that the paper, as well as being a consultation response, might serve as a reference point for work that both the PURPLE Lobby Group and PURPLE Working Group plan to do in the future with regard to peri-urban transport and mobility - not least, in the case of the Working Group, in producing a PURPLE Topic Paper on the subject, a process which began over a year ago and will shortly be revisited.