News
Towards more integrated and more reliable rail services in London ?
Updated : juin 9, 2004
Heavy rail carries 42% of morning peak passengers into central London ; it is a backbone of the public transport systems of the British capital city. Surveys show that Londoners make seven times more rail journeys...
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Bike+Ride and integrated information in Rhine-Ruhr
Updated : juin 9, 2004
VRR, the public transport authority of the German Rhine-Ruhr conurbation (7.2m inhab. on a 5,000 km2 territory), incites passengers of public transport to use bicycle to go to stations. More than 8,000 bicycles can...
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Stockholm will try congestion charging during one year
Updated : juin 9, 2004
The municipality of Stockholm adopted a proposal to introduce a congestion charging scheme covering the complete inner-town of the city for a 13- month trial period starting in June 2005. During this period, all car...
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20 years of successful transport and fare integration in the region of Vienna
Updated : juin 9, 2004
VOR, the public transport authority for the region of Vienna-Eastern Austria (2.6m inhab. on 8,400 km2) will celebrate in June its 20th birthday. The first steps towards fare integration took place in 1961 with an...
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New European transport research program
Updated : avril 27, 2004
The European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC) exposed its strategic research program, underlining the importance of mobility improvement and reduction of noise and pollution. In the field of...
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The European Commission proposes a new Directive to ensure that Member States save each year at least 1% more energy
Updated : mars 31, 2004
The Commission released in December a draft Directive aiming to boost the cost-effective and efficient energy use in the EU. The proposal sets a framework with common definitions, tools, methodology targets and...
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The European Commission proposes new rules to increase the legal certainty of services of general economic interest
Updated : mars 31, 2004
Following the Altmark judgement of the European Court of Justice in July 2003 (see EMTA News n° 14), and the Green Paper on Services of General Interest, the Commission (DG Competition) has started consultations to set...
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From the second to the third "Rail Package"
Updated : mars 31, 2004
The second railway package, that aims to accelerate the opening to competition of the rail freight markets in Europe (see EMTA News n° 13) was still being debated by the Conciliation Committee between the Council of...
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Towards a European strategy for sustainable urban environment
Updated : mars 31, 2004
The European Commission adopted on 11 January a Communication (COM(2004)60) setting out its ideas for the Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment due in summer 2005. In this document, that is being submitted to a...
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Fare integration leads to increased patronage in Barcelona
Updated : mars 9, 2004
Since the beginning of the implementation of fare integration in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (4.5m inhab) in 2001 by ATM, the public transport authority, passenger traffic has grown by 17.4%. In 2003 alone, 30...
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