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Tisséo of Toulouse joins EMTA to become the 35th member of the association
EMTA is proud to welcome the public transport authority of Toulouse, Tisséo Collectivités, as its 35th member. Toulouse was approved as an EMTA member in the general meeting of the association, currently taking place in Kraków, Poland. “It is a great opportunity for us to learn from other public transport authorities in Europe and benefit

2024 – Competitive means of public transport against motoring – HSL (Helsinki)
HSL (Helsinki) was seeking your input on the strategy adopted by your public transport authority to win market shares. Thank you for all the responses – please find the results below.

Calling for more EU budget for metropolitan public transport – EMTA joins forces with other organisations
EMTA and 43 other European transport organisations, representing the key spectrum of Europe’s transport network, are joining forces in a campaign to urge the Council and the European Parliament to increase the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) budget for transport in the upcoming review of the Multi-Annual Financial Framework. The transport sector is of strategic importance

EMTA joins a coalition calling for support for urban nodes within the TEN-T
EMTA joins other leading networks, territorial groupings and EU-funded research projects in calling for EU member states to support urban nodes within the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). The Urban Nodes Alliance jointly published the position paper ‘Urban Nodes: Empowering cities and regions to build the TEN-T’ at the start of the Connecting Europe Days 2024,

EMTA 51st general meeting – Krakow, Poland
EMTA delegates will meet in Krakow for the 51st general meeting of the association on 10-12 April 2024. The meeting will be hosted by the public transport authority of Krakow, ZTP. More information is available in the Members Only section of the website.

2023 – Electronic paper and ink – ROPID (Prague)
Where in Europe is passenger information displayed on e-ink panels? What about the reliability of such technology? Michal Šperk from ROPID in Prague is seeking responses to a questionnaire on electronic paper and ink.

2024 – Ticket inspection processes – JUDU (Vilnius)
Our colleagues at JUDU in Vilnius are currently reorganising their ticket inspection process in public transport. To inform this work, JUDU would like to learn about the organisation of ticket inspection in other EMTA regions. If your PTA is responsible for the ticket inspection process itself or if you are able to describe the ticket

Johannes Laitila appointed Communications Officer at EMTA
EMTA has appointed Johannes Laitila as Communications Officer from 1 February 2024. Johannes is seconded to EMTA from HSL, the public transport authority of Helsinki Region in Finland. Johannes is a Finnish national with a Master of Social Sciences in Communication from the University of Helsinki. He has worked as a communications professional at HSL

Official documents
Statutes modified at Budapest in May 2016 Internal rules modified in Budapest in May 2016 Privacy policy related to board members’ personal information

2023 – Regional Information Integration Centers – CRTM (Madrid)
The public transport authority for the Madrid region (CRTM) is working to define the new CITRAM (Public Transport Innovation and Management Centre) for the future. The CRTM website presents information on the current facilities: https://www.crtm.es/conocenos/citram/ CRTM seeks to identify new functionalities and services the centre will have in the near future, and to do so,