News from the Cities
20 years of successful transport and fare integration in the region of Vienna
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 agreement between Austrian national railways ÖBB and Wiener Linien, the public operator of urban transport systems in Vienna. This was
Fare integration leads to increased patronage in Barcelona
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 million additional passengers used public transport, that is to say an increase by 3.7% vs 2002. The strongest increase occurred
Introduction of electronic ticketing in Bilbao
BARIK (meaning « without » in Basque language), as is called the new electronic ticketing project for the metropolitan area of Bilbao (1m inhab.), was launched in February in the context of a pilot scheme. 4 metro stations, and 3 bus lines are used for this experiment that aims to check during 6 months that
Loans granted by the European Investment Bank to support public transport development in Brussels, Dublin, and Stockhom
The European Investment Bank announced over the past months that it will grant loans to support the development of public transport systems in the following cities : – Brussels: a long-term loan of €250 million has been granted to STIB, the public transport company of the Belgian capital city, so as to modernise tramway infrastructures
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