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EU DG MOVE : Digital Transport days 2020
After last year’s largest yet edition of the Digital Transport Days in Helsinki, the European Commission sent out the Save-the-Date for the 2020 event. Instead of taking place in Leipzig, Germany – as planned originally – the event will be held as a digital conference on November 18th, 2020. More information here
Hoekse Lijn is open
In September 2019, the much anticipated Hoekse Lijn metro line was officially opened. The railway line between Schiedam and Hoek van Holland was closed on 31 March 2017 and rebuilt into a light rail line, connecting to the regional metro network lines A and B. The conversion from rail- to lightrail was intended to take
Metropolitan region Rotterdam – Den Haag (MRDH) Towards 100% zero emission bus transport
Over the past two years, the Metropolitan region Rotterdam – Den Haag (MRDH) has been making new agreements with the public transport companies in the MRDH region about clean(er) bus transportation. In 2030, all buses will be zero emission (ZE) and from 2025 onwards, renewable energy generated locally/regionally will be used where feasible. Overall, the
London’s Heavy Goods Vehicle Safety Permit scheme
Between 2015 and 2017, Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) were disproportionately involved in fatal collisions on London’s roads; 63 per cent of fatal collisions involved people cycling and 25 per cent involved people walking. Transport for London (TfL) has developed a Direct Vision Standard to tackle road danger at its source by minimising HGV blind spots
Postponed – ITF Summit – 27 to 29 May 2020 – Leipzig (GERMANY)
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Cancelled – ECOMM 2020 – 3 to 5 June 2020 – Cascais (PORTUGAL)
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Postponed – ITS European congress 2020 – 18 to 20 May 2020 – Lisbon (PORTUGAL)
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Cancelled – TRA 2020 : Rethinking transport – 27 to 30 April 2020 – Helsinki (FINLAND)
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MOVE2020: Mobility Re-Imagined – 11 & 12 February 2020 – London (UK)
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Cancelled – Zero Emission Bus Conference – 7 & 8 April 2020 – Paris (FRANCE)
EMTA is happy to support the next European Zero Emission Bus Conference that will take place on 07-08. April 2020 in Paris (FRANCE). As with the previous editions of the conference, held in Cologne in 2018 and London in 2016, the Paris ZEB conference will focus on the solutions and challenges of decarbonising the bus
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