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EU Parliament supports road safety targets
Ari Vatanen, member of the European Parliament presented a report on road safety in Europe, which points out that improvements in road safety come from a combination of safer drivers, safer cars and safer roads. According the European Commission’s Community Road Accident Database (CARE) 40,000 lives are lost and 1.7 million people are injured in
Rail services improvements foreseen in Switzerland
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) are currently working on the strategic planning of rail services for 2030: the Zukünftige Entwicklung der Bahnprojekte (ZEB). Concrete measures will be announced in 2006, as required by the Parliament. However, general guidelines of service improvements have been exposed in September. The scope covers all types of rail services: freight, long
Stockholm about to experiment congestion charging
The Municipality of Stockholm will experiment a trial period for congestion charging for all private vehicles crossing the city border on weekdays. Car users will have to pay for each crossing with a maximal daily fee of about €6 per day and per car. The trial will take place from 3 January to 31 July
London uses fare policy to influence behaviours of travellers
In order to encourage the use of public transport by young people, the Mayor of London – Ken Livingstone, through his agency Transport for London, has extended the age limit for children eligible for free travel on bus and tram networks from those under the age of 11 to those under 16. Children aged less
Very short term rental of cycles available in Lyons
Greater Lyon launched in May VeloV, an innovative service of cycle rental for very short duration. Rental spots are spread across the cities of Lyons and Villeurbanne, where about 600,000 people live and work. The network consists of almost 200 stations, situated in strategic locations and no more than five minutes away from any place
Turin prepares to host winter Olympics
In about 100 days, Torino will host the XX Olympic Winter Games that will take place from 10 February 2006. Organisation of world wide events welcoming thousands of visitors put a strong pressure on transport systems a wide range of projects are undertaken to face the expected demand, even if for winter Games, sports venues
New night bus services in Paris Ile de France region
In order to better match the growing mobility needs in night time, the network of night buses in Paris and Ile de France region has been restructured and reinforced in September. Provision of services has been doubled compared to the before situation. They are now run under the same name ‘Noctilien’ and are operated by
Transdev Group pursues expansion in Italy
The city of Genoa, Italy decided to entrust the management of its transport network (bus, Metro, etc.) to a private partner for the first time via an open tendering process. The network is Italy’s 5th largest urban public transport network. In Genoa, where 610,000 people live, more than 400,000 journeys are made daily and every
RATP and ALSTOM sign a €474 million for the supply of metro trainsets
RATP, ParisÂ’ metro operator, and ALSTOM signed a contract on 20 October 2005 for the delivery of 49 rubber-tyred automatic metro trainsets with an option for 10 additional metro trainsets. The order was concluded in the context of the automatisation programme for line 1, one of the most important line of Paris network with 700.000
New Bombardier tramways in the streets of Brussels
The first Flexity Outlook tramway, manufactured by Bombardier, has been delivered to STIB (Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles) on 14 September. STIB and Bombardier concluded a contract in 2003 for the acquisition of 46 trams and 15 years maintenance for a total amount of €106 million. The rolling stock is split among 27 T3000
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