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Just launched: Metropolitan region Rotterdam – The Hague
By the 1st of January 2015, a new Public Transport Authority will be formally launched in The Netherlands: the Metropolitan Region Rotterdam Den Haag (MRDH), resulting from a merger of two regional transport authorities stadsregio Rotterdam and stadsgewest Haaglanden. This article briefly explains the scope of the area, structure of governance, legal tasks and budget,
Travel in London becoming more convenient with over 12 million contactless journeys made since launch
More than 12 million public transport journeys have now been made using contactless payment cards and devices since Transport for London (TfL) launched the new more convenient way to pay on 16 September 2014. Contactless payments, part of TfL’s work to modernise and improve the service offered to customers, can be made for travel on
Nordic Conference and InformNorden 2014
From 11-13 of June in Oslo your EMTA secretary witnessed the biannual conference of the Nordic Public Transport 2014 conference bringing together over 350 practitioners, traders, exhibitors and government experts in the Nordic field of transport and traffic. EMTA colleagues from RUTER in Oslo hosted and presented an 2 day conference programme with a wide
The new AnachB | VOR app
How do I get from A to B? When is the next bus or the next train arriving respectively departing? Are there any delays or road works on the route? How do I get in time to my appointment? Answers to these and more questions are provided live via mobile phone since 1st June. To
Brussels refreshed ! A vision on mobility in the future
By 2040, today’s children will be adults. They will move around, study, work, go out, travel, have children, create companies, take decisions, and face the future all by themselves. By then, the population of Brussels will likely have grown by 25%! So a major challenge for the Brussels-Capital Region is to manage, starting from now,
The importance of Corporate Social Responsibility for Transportation Authorities: the case of the Regional Transport Consortium of Madrid
The Corporate Social Responsibility of the Regional Transport Consortium of Madrid (CRTM) is aligned with the new social model that requires a satisfying experience of the public transport customer in his daily mobility, to position the user at the intangible values level. The association with the best values perceived by Madrid society: transparency, knowledge, leadership,
Barcelona ATM is on the way to T-Mobilitat
Over the next few months Barcelona will launch a new mobility card to replace the 84 different public transport integrated fares that coexist nowadays in the metropolitan area of the Catalan capital. However, the T-Mobilitat project is not limited to public transport but has a much broader scope, defined by current tendencies and needs, and
STIF (Ile de France Transport Syndicate) is accelerating the purchase of non-polluting buses in Ile de France
On 11 December 2013, the STIF Board of Directors adopted an unprecedented plan to reduce pollutants emitted by buses. By 2020-2025 the aim is to have a fleet of all-electric and NGV Biogas buses in Ile-de-France, consistent with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% written into the Plan de Déplacement Urbain d’Île-de-France
CRTM grants Awards to Promotion of Public Transport and Sustainable Mobility
The Regional Transport Consortium of Madrid (CRTM) has delivered on January 14th, the II Awards on Promotion of Public Transport and Sustainable Mobility, in which Public Transport field initiatives coming from 26 organizations individuals or companies are recognised. The awards had two categories. The first category intended to recognise employees in any of the PT
The Superhub project
SUPERHUB is a European co-funded project involving 20 partners, Barcelona ATM and Helsinki HSL among them, from 6 different Countries. In 2014, after 36 months of research, development and largescale trials, SUPERHUB will unveil an open source platform for PC and mobile applications which will be able to plan customized urban routes, combining in real
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