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Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) Hofwiesenstrasse, 370 – 8090 Zurich – Switzerland Tel : 41 43 288 48 48 – Fax : 41 43 288 48 40 dbernet@zvv.zh.ch – Responsible person : Mr franz Kagerbauer, Director – Date of creation : 1990 – Status : Governmental Institution incorporated under Public Law – Personnel : 34 Organization ZVV
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Office des Transports et de la Circulation 20, rue du Stand – 1204 Genève – Suisse Tél : 41 22 327 47 70 – Fax : 41 22 327 51 33 otc.secretariat@etat.ge.ch – Responsible person : Mr Jean-Luc Gindre – Status : Administrative Department Organization OTC collaborates with the organizing authorities of regional public transport.
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Comune di Roma – Politiche Mobilità e Trasporti Via Capitan Bavastro 94 – 00 154 Roma – Italia Tel : 39 06 67 10 32 36 – Fax : 39 06 67 10 37 37 DipVII@comune.roma.it – Responsible person : Walter Tocci, Deputy Major in charge of mobility – Date of creation : 1996 –
One step forward for the third railway package
EU Commission has adopted the thrid railway package on 3rd March 2004. It contains measures to revitalise the European railways. The package consists of a Communication, four legislative measures and a working document on an extended impact assessment for the gradual opening up of the market for international passenger services. One of the legislative measures
EU Parliament supports road safety targets
Ari Vatanen, member of the European Parliament presented a report on road safety in Europe, which points out that improvements in road safety come from a combination of safer drivers, safer cars and safer roads. According the European Commission’s Community Road Accident Database (CARE) 40,000 lives are lost and 1.7 million people are injured in
Stockholm about to experiment congestion charging
The Municipality of Stockholm will experiment a trial period for congestion charging for all private vehicles crossing the city border on weekdays. Car users will have to pay for each crossing with a maximal daily fee of about €6 per day and per car. The trial will take place from 3 January to 31 July
London uses fare policy to influence behaviours of travellers
In order to encourage the use of public transport by young people, the Mayor of London – Ken Livingstone, through his agency Transport for London, has extended the age limit for children eligible for free travel on bus and tram networks from those under the age of 11 to those under 16. Children aged less
Very short term rental of cycles available in Lyons
Greater Lyon launched in May VeloV, an innovative service of cycle rental for very short duration. Rental spots are spread across the cities of Lyons and Villeurbanne, where about 600,000 people live and work. The network consists of almost 200 stations, situated in strategic locations and no more than five minutes away from any place
Transdev Group pursues expansion in Italy
The city of Genoa, Italy decided to entrust the management of its transport network (bus, Metro, etc.) to a private partner for the first time via an open tendering process. The network is Italy’s 5th largest urban public transport network. In Genoa, where 610,000 people live, more than 400,000 journeys are made daily and every
RATP and ALSTOM sign a €474 million for the supply of metro trainsets
RATP, ParisÂ’ metro operator, and ALSTOM signed a contract on 20 October 2005 for the delivery of 49 rubber-tyred automatic metro trainsets with an option for 10 additional metro trainsets. The order was concluded in the context of the automatisation programme for line 1, one of the most important line of Paris network with 700.000
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