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Consorcio de Transporte Metropolitano de Sevilla 2007 Mobility review
A survey on household mobility facts and behavior has been conducted in 2007 by the Consorcio de Transporte Metropolitano del Area de Sevilla with the help of Instituto Apoldo. 35000 interviews across 46 municipalities of the urban area of Sevilla targeted to 12 years old and above population (85% of a total population of 1,438,451)

A dedicated center for expertise on public private partnership PPPs
European Investment Bank EIB and European Commission EC have launched in Paris on 16 September, under the French Presidency of the European Union, a European Center of expertise on PPPs. 22 entities have already signed the agreement protocol, among which : EIB,EC, Finance Ministers of Austria, Greece, Bulgaria, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Slovakia,

CODATU XIII conference – 12 to 14 November 2008 – Hô Chi Minh-Ville (Vietnam)
The Challenge of sustainable development of transport systems in emerging countries: the good solutions. www.codatu.org

COMPRO 1rst Workshop Cost-efficiency of Hybrid and CNG buses through Common Procurement – 18 September 2008 – Bremen (Germany)
“Common Procurement of collective and public service transport clean vehicles” is a European project under Intellignet Energy Europe. www.compro-eu.org

Get on get off… get around – 15-16 September 2008 – Salzburg (Austria)
The conference about the opportunities for changing and managing mobility in an ageing society, is supported by intelligent Energy Europe and will see the kick off of the AENEAS project. email contact registration form and practical informations

Reinhart Rack own initiative report on Green Paper…
…towards a new culture for urban mobility (see Emta news 32). The report, adopted by Parliament at a large majority 8-10 July in Strasbourg with few amendments, conveys the main message that new and innovative concepts on mobility in cities are urgently needed to tackle the adverse effects of urban transport on climate change. Members

French Presidency’s priorities in transport
State Secretary Dominique Bussereau unfolded the priorities of the French presidency in the field of transport. Identifying cleaner transport as the top priority he referred particularly to the “greening of transport” package including the proposal for revision of the Eurovignette Directive recently adopted by the Commission. This will be the subject of the debate during

Working group on ticketing
Survey Specifications :: consultant proposal :: Study progress :: Study draft final report :: Turin’s General meeting presentation :: Draft summary leaflet Final Report :: 6 pages leaflet Meetings – London, 31 march 2008 : Agenda :: List of participants :: Presentations: Intro to TfL, E-Ticketing at TfL – Barcelona, 21 January 2008 : Agenda

Berlin Meeting 5-6 June 2008
– Agenda – Record of decisions – Presentations during the meeting: Marketing at STIF Presentation of summmary on “Older population and Public Transport” BAIM presentation (18,4mb – Take some time to download) Merton council on Scooters – Technical specification of interoperability TSI 2008/164/EC Commission decision 21/12/07 – Work in Progress Draft Action Plan

Community guidelines on state aid for railway
At the end of 2007, The European Commission launched a consultation on a working document prepared by DG-TREN in reference to the compatibility with EC Treaty of state aid as defined in Directive 91/440/EEC, so as to draw guidelines to improve transparency of public financing and legal certainty with regard to the Treaty rules, in