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Identification of metropolitan area
Budapest is the capital and the largest city of Hungary, which also means that it is the country’s principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial and transportation centre. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with the unification in 1873 of west-bank Buda and Óbuda with east-bank Pest. Budapest has 1.74 million

Identification of the metropolitan area
The Bucharest-llfov region is the area with the highest population density in Romania, with a population of 2,272,163 inhabitants (according to the 2011 Census) and a density of 1,248 inhabitants per km². Bucharest has a total population of 1,883,425 inhabitants and a total area of 228 km², at a density of 8,260 inhabitants per km².

Public transport networks
Public Transport System Description of the network: Local company (STIB): underground tramways bus Regional companies: TEC (Walloon Region) and DE LIJN (Flemish Region): only bus Railways (SNCB): owned by federal State; 95% of passengers lines of SNCB goes trough Brussels Urban Buses Suburban buses Tramways Metro Heavy Rail Nb of lines 50 +/- 50

Identification of metropolitan area
Brussels Capital Region is one of the three Belgian Regions. It is divided into 19 communes. It has about 1.2 million inhabitants, out of a total Belgian population of about 12 million. Brussels Capital Region is administered by a Parliament and a Regional Government composed of 89 elected members. Brussels Mobility is one of the

Public transport networks
Public Transport System Description of the network: In 2015/16, 325.8 million public transport journeys were made in the West Midlands Metropolitan Area (267.1 million bus passenger journeys, 53.7 million rail passenger journeys and 5.0 million metro passenger journeys). Bus: 96% of bus service kilometres in the West Midlands are operated on a commercial basis by

Identification of metropolitan area
Description of metropolitan area The West Midlands is made up of seven Local Authority areas with a total population of 2.56 million inhabitants. These Local Authorities are: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.Birmingham is the largest of the Local Authority areas and is the second largest city in the United Kingdom. The West

Financing/Pricing data
Funding and Expenditure 2011/12 : £ million Revenue Budget: The revenue budget is mainly funded by the levy, which comes from each of the seven Metropolitan District Councils in the West Midlands. The levy is collected through Council Tax from residents of the West Midlands and is paid by each district based population. In 2015/16

Public transport networks
Public Transport System 2016 – 164 million passengers Type of networks More information and maps on CTB website Policy on car parks

Identification of metropolitan area
Description Bizkaia is one of the Regions of the Basque Country. It has 1.141.442 inhabitants living in 111 municipalities and covers a surface of 2,217 km². Its capital city is Bilbao, a city of 343.234 inhabitants on 41.3 km². The Metropolitan Area of Bilbao has a population of 878,000 inhabitants in 26 municipalities covering 364,8

Financing/Pricing data
Funding of public transport (2015) The Consortium’s overall finance scheme is set out in the Finance Plan, a document providing a scenario of almost 40 years, a balanced and feasible system, and this is why current decisions are assessed as to their impact on finance.The Finance Plan stabilises economic providing funds from the Basque Government