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"Public Transport is a Woman” in Warsaw
Updated : March 17, 2023
On 8th March 2023 – International Women’s Day - a conference titled „Public Transport is a Woman” was held at ZTM headquarters in Warsaw. The idea behind the event was to show that in a male-dominated industry such as...
Read more »Unleashing the Potential of Public transport in Europe as the backbone of urban mobility: UPPER has launched!
Updated : February 15, 2023
UPPER is a new project funded under the Horizon Europe Program of the European Commission and coordinated by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP). It aims to lead the transition towards a...
Read more »Zahraa Jawad is appointed EMTA Project Officer
Updated : February 6, 2023
The EMTA Secretariat is delighted to announce the recruitment of Zahraa Jawad as Project Officer from February 2023. Zahraa is a Dutch national with an MSc in Urban Public Administration (2020) from the Vrije...
Read more »Open ticketing in Finland - What was the impact of the 2017 Act on Transport Services?
Updated : January 22, 2023
In Helsinki this week, an EMTA delegation met with the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications together with HSL, the public transport authority for the Helsinki region. Open ticketing was central to the...
Read more »EMTA joins the consortium laying the foundation for a common European mobility data space
Updated : December 15, 2022
Press release: 17 partners across Europe to lay the foundation for a common European mobility data space Europe is on its way to generate and make use of more data than ever. The project PrepDSpace4Mobility aims at...
Read more »EMTA-led panel at the Polis Conference highlights the need for a strong PTA role in MaaS governance
Updated : December 9, 2022
On 1 December 2022 in Brussels, the EMTA Research and Policy Officer Thomas Geier moderated a panel debate called “Managing and Governing MaaS”. In the panel: Adam Bodor, Director of Mobility Development, BKK -...
Read more »Warsaw : New metro stations on the second line and new metro trains from SKODA
Updated : November 3, 2022
Warsaw Metro is developing. The last eastern section of the second Metro line (M2) was completed on 28 September 2022. Targówek district residents gained three stations - Bródno, Kondratowicza and Zacisze. The second...
Read more »EMTA welcomes a new member: Athens Urban Transport Organization S.A. (OASA SA)
Updated : November 2, 2022
On 21 Oct 2022 at the Vienna General Meeting, OASA formally joined EMTA as a new member. AOSA is the public transport authority responsible for planning, coordinating, and financing the largest public transport system...
Read more »From June 2022 regional routes are integrated throughout the whole of the central Bohemian region
Updated : July 29, 2022
From 12 June 2022 the common integrated transport system of Prague and the Central Bohemian Region will cover the whole of the Central Bohemian Region. With the integration of the last two regions, all suburban...
Read more »Catch up with the EIT MobilityTalks on Multimodal Digital Mobility Services
Updated : July 7, 2022
EMTA Secretary general Alexandre Santacreu commented on MaaS in the latest EIT MobilityTalk on 7 July 2022. The event was focussed on the building blocks for the development and deployment of multimodal digital...
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