City of Skopje

Skopje is a capital of the Republic of Macedonia with a population more then 600.000 inhabitants on an area of 1,818 km2. As the largest city in the Republic of Macedonia, it represents a political, administrative, economic, cultural, educational and research center. Skopje has seen significant progress encouraged by the shift from production to service activities and because of large foreign investments. Skopje’s vision is being a developed cultural, historical, conference and sporting-recreational tourist center, inhabited by people of high ecological awareness. 

To achieve a goal to provide to its citizens to live in ecologically and energy efficient friendly city, Skopje had started first with reorganization of its structure by establishing a Traffic Department, Ecology Department, Unit for energy, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources and a public enterprise Parking. 

The city’s transportation model is established for the actual Space Plan needs, according the 1998 traffic survey. Public transport is organized and controlled by the City administration and they include one public and two private companies (with rate of 75/25% from all bus lines). Unfortunately the number of passengers carried by the public transport company has fallen through the years and from 150M passengers in 1989 had down to 45M passengers in 2010 that lead on using private vehicles which are the least desirable means of urban transport. In the City of Skopje transport is currently a significant factor of the city’s low quality of life and the city’s unused potential to promote its historic and tourist potential. For that reason City of Skopje is focused on implementation of measures for new transport modes, construction and reconstruction of new traffic infrastructure, Traffic management system, rent a bike system and new parking system. 

In 2010 Skopje signed the Covenant of Mayors and submitted its SEAP in 2011. According to the adopted documents the City of Skopje goal is to achieve CO2 emission reduction of more than 20% in the period of 2008 – 2020 by implementing projects for energy efficiency buildings, transport, public lightening and use of renewable energy sources.