EUROCITIES was founded in 1986 by the mayors of six large cities: Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam.

Today, Eurocities  brings together the local governments of over 130 of Europe's largest cities and 40 partner cities, that govern a total of 130 million citizens across 35 countries.

Eurocities' objective is to reinforce the important role that local governments should play in a multilevel governance structure. It aims to shape the opinions of Brussels stakeholders and ultimately shift the focus of EU legislation in a way which allows city governments to tackle strategic challenges at local level.

Eurocities recently published the 2013 Annual Report and 2014 Work Programme that can be found here (PDF).  

At the same time as booming use of mobile at home, especially use of mobile data, other effects of roaming premiums include:

Frequent travellers - the most lucrative section of the potential market - are more likely to switch-off their mobile phone data roaming capabilities than the occasional travellers.

The EC believes this is because frequent travellers are better informed about the real costs of data roaming in Europe than less frequent travellers. 

As publicised last week by Automotive PR, data from testing performed by Emissions Analytics, a tailpipe testing and analysis company, shows that real world vehicle emissions can deviate, sometimes drastically, from official figures.

Existing simulation models usually underestimate emissions, it claims, because they're not based on data collected in the field. Emissions Analytics's approach is claimed to provide a more realistic and constantly updated simulation.

 

"Many aspects of London traffic are very good, for example the investment in public transport" ,says Malcolm Fergusson, transport and sustainability expert, and author of a new report about London traffic.

"But we still have too many cars, and the effect of the congestion charge is declining. We need more space for busses, bikes and delivery vehicles".

While the share of car trips is declining, London's growing population means the traffic is getting worse. The 10 million residents expecting to live here in 2030 will add a projected 350,000 cars to the 2.6m cars already populating the city's streets.