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Focus on AENEAS
AENEAS, the acronym stands for “Attaining ENergy-Efficient mobility in Ageing Society”, is a European project of the Intelligent Energy Europe (EEI) programme. Given the significant demographic challenge of a growing Older Population that is the first ever cohort -male and female all the same- still using the private car as a favourite mode of transport
TrolleyMotion, New Horizons for Urban transport – 30 nov/1st dec 2010 – Luzern (Switzerland)
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Annual POLIS Conference 2010 – Innovation in Transport for Sustainable – 25/26 nov 2010 – Dresden (Germany)
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125th UITP Anniversary – 19 sept 2010 – Brussels (Belgium)
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London set to become a cyclists’ paradise
London’s cycling revolution has begun. This summer marks the start of the two major schemes introduced by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TfL), putting cycling at the heart of transport in the Capital. Thousands of bikes will be available for hire in central London from end of July when Barclays
Transfer of the Renfe-Rodalies local railway service to the Catalan Government
Contractual framework On January 1st this year, the local railway service operated by Renfe Rodalies was transferred from the Spanish Central Government to the Government of Catalonia. 197 trains and around 900 workers provide the service. This is the first time that a regional government in Spain has taken over functions that have been, until
Bus network overhaul proposed for South Yorkshire
David Brown, Director General explains in the following lines why SYPTE engages with the public on its Vision for Bus Services. “More than 80 per cent of South Yorkshire’s public transport journeys are by bus, or to put it another way, one in six of all journeys into town are made in this way. That
Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid CRTM winner of the Award for Outstanding Innovation in the Public Transport for the Madrid Interchange Plan.
The award was granted by the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the International Association for Public Transport (UITP) at the International Transport Forum in Leipzig 27 May 2010 in the presence of the Ministers of Transport and high-level representatives of industry and research. The objective of the ITF 2010 Award was to acknowledge innovative public
Madrid meeting : 7 & 8 september 2010
– Record of decision – Draft agenda – Registration form – Hotel facilities – Map of metro Documents for the meeting – Presentation of universal design of streets and public transport stops in Göteborg – EMTA contribution to the revision of EU Disability Policy Documents presented during the meeting – Presentation of Madrid Accessibility Policy
TfL launches the Interchange Best Practice Guidelines
Transport for London (TfL) has launched the new best practice guidelines which aim to improve the quality of multi-modal transport interchange in London. The TfL Interchange Best Practice Guidelines are a new and improved version of the organisation’s 2001 guide to supporting the better design and management transport hubs, which requires close collaboration between partners
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