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Michael Glotz-Richter is senior project manager for ‘sustainable mobility’ for the City of Bremen in the Bremen City Senate for Environment, Construction, Transport and European Affairs/ (Freie Hansestadt Bremen / Senator fuer Umwelt, Bau, Verkehr und Europa).

Michael Glotz-Richter holds a Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning of the Technical University in Berlin, with a special focus on transport and environmental issues (1984).

After working in the field of urban planning and transport calming in Berlin and Cologne, he started to work for the City of Bremen in 1990 – head of section for ecological urban design. Since 1994 he is responsible for the involvement of Bremen in several European projects on sustainable transport and environmentally friendly mobility. Car-Sharing is one of the elements of a new mobility culture to reduce the dependence on the private car – but as well good Public Transport, clean vehicles and seeing the bicycle as ultimate low-emission vehicle.

Michael is involved and coordinated some well-known European projects on sustainable mobility. Bremen became one of the model cities within the CIVITAS initiative of the European Commision. Bremen was awarded in November 2005 as ‘CIVITAS City of the Year’.

One of the key objectives of all these projects has been the integration of different transport modes to intermodal services and as well the link to lifestyle issues and urban development with transport issues – widening up the focus to an understanding of mobility. Bremen has won some good reputation and has been recently selected as “Urban Best Practice” to be presented on the World Exhibition 2010 in Shanghai (“Better City – Better Life”).

Michael is lecturing at the Bremen University of Applied Science and has given numerous presentations on international workshops and conferences.