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  • 8 March 2022
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EMTA meets with Daniel Mes, member of Cabinet for Executive Vice-President Timmermans

EMTA members deliver rapid progress towards zero-emission bus fleets despite major industrial, technical, and financial challenges. On Thursday 3 March, the European Commission held a hybrid meeting with an EMTA delegation to assess bottlenecks and help find solutions. Alexandre Santacreu and Thomas Geier from EMTA met with Daniel Mes, member of Cabinet for Executive Vice-President

  • 10 February 2022
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EMTA joins the Multimodal Passenger Mobility Forum (MPMF)

The Multimodal Passenger Mobility Forum (MPMF) shall assist the European Commission in the preparation of policy initiatives in the field of sustainable multimodal mobility for passengers. The MPMF serves as a platform for structured dialogue, exchange of technical knowledge, cooperation and coordination between Union Member States and relevant public and private stakeholders. On 8 February

  • 16 December 2021
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EMTA release a new report about Zero emission in Public Transport

EMTA realeased a new report called “Towards Zero Emission Public Transport” You could find all EMTA previous reports in the publications section.

  • 10 November 2021
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Open letter to EU officials on Urban Mobility Framework

Joint stakeholders sent EU dignitaries an regarding the Urban Mobility Framework. UITP sent out the joint statement to the following contacts on 10 november. EMTA has been one of the thirteen co-signatories.

  • 13 July 2021
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Summary report of EMTA public Roundtable 28 june 2021

The 28th June 2021 EMTA organized a public roundtable on the subject : Europe opens up – Back to normal for public transport? For those who couldn’t attend, we wrote a . A study was also prepared for this event by David Weinreich, Ph.D. & Karel Martens, Ph.D. from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. You could

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  • 15 March 2017
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The Valencia Generalitat Regional Government approved the establishment of the new Metropolitan Transport Authority of Valencia

On 29 December 2016, the Valencia Generalitat (Regional Government) passed the law that regulates the creation of the Metropolitan Transport Authority of Valencia. This entity will function as an autonomous agency to carry out the legal responsabilities on the management of all public transport services of the Generalitat, acting on behalf those municipalities that will

  • 4 April 2016
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Joint letter Eurocities, UITP, UNIFE, EPF and EMTA

Coordinated action with Eurocities, UITP, UNIFE, EPF and EMTA to publish this joint letter to the Dutch minister of Transport and Environment mrs Schultz van Haegen with concerns expressed on the Informal Transport-Environment Council meeting on ‘Innovating for the future: Smart and green solutions for sustainable transport’ at April 14-15 in Amsterdam

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  • 14 August 2014
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Nordic Conference and InformNorden 2014

From 11-13 of June in Oslo your EMTA secretary witnessed the biannual conference of the Nordic Public Transport 2014 conference bringing together over 350 practitioners, traders, exhibitors and government experts in the Nordic field of transport and traffic. EMTA colleagues from RUTER in Oslo hosted and presented an 2 day conference programme with a wide

  • 30 April 2014
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City-HUB project: key determinants for successful interchanges

Policy makers are becoming increasingly aware of the need for public transport to compete with private transport in order to manage demand on the transport networks. Sustainable transport use is supported by good interchange design; therefore it is important to understand what makes interchanges successful. A consortium of 9 European research institutes from 9 different

  • 7 August 2009
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European Commission: Shaping transport policy for the future.

On March 2009, the European Commission launched a reflection process involving stakeholders and transport experts on the future of transport policy. Assessment externally commissioned, of the past ten years transport policies and scenarios for the future drawn with the help of Focus Groups, led to identifying 6 main trends and challenges that will shape the

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