News from the Cities
First electric vehicle chargers installed at a P+R car park in Warsaw
In December 2017, there were the first four electric vehicle chargers made available on a P+R car park in Warsaw. This investment is to improve air quality in the city and to encourage residents to use eco-friendly public transport. The chargers are powered by means of two stations, with the power of 2×22 kW each.
Wieselbus lines handed over to Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region
As of June 30, the responsibility for the eleven Wiesel express bus lines was handed over by the NÖVOG to the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR). On behalf of the Province of Lower Austria, NÖVOG developed a bus system, which was launched in 1996 with the Wiesel express bus system, in order to establish a fast and
West Midlands Launches Regional Bike Share Scheme
The tide has changed for Bike Share across the UK with many cities looking to these schemes to support a step change in cycling, reducing car journeys, improving health and reducing air pollution on our roads. This is one of the most exciting shifts for cycling, as such schemes attract a wider audience to cycling.
News about public transport in Vilnius
According to the results of 2017 research of passengers flow in Vilnius, about 514 thousand passengers are transported in Vilnius by public transport on the working day. In fact, about 24.1% of all travels in Vilnius is done by public transport. Passengers flow in public transport are presented Fig. 1 After being launched last autumn,
Contactless payment’s popularity continues to grow
More than half of all pay as you go trips made on London’s Tube and rail services are now made with contactless payment. On buses and trams, the use of contactless is also increasing rapidly – with around 45 per cent of all pay as you go journeys now being made using contactless. The convenient
London to see a huge increase in electric double decker buses
London’s zero-emission public transport network is to increase more than tenfold as the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced that 68 new electric double-deckers will join the bus fleet by the summer of 2019. Two routes that run into central London, will be exclusively operated by electric double-decker buses. The Mayor’s announcement was made as
EMTA members sign a declaration of intent to decarbonize public transport fleets
On June 8 members of European Metropolitan Transport Authorities gathered in a general meeting in Paris to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of EMTA. To seal this special meeting members of EMTA in presence of the national minister of transport in France Mrs Borne and Mrs Pécresse, president of Region Île de France, signed a Declaration
Ambitions to achieve Zero Emission Mobility in Amsterdam region
Things are going well with the introduction of Zero Emission buses in the Amsterdam region. From April 2018 100 zero emission buses will be deployed in the area around Schiphol Airport. In summer, the Waterland region will follow with 10 electric buses. Within the entire Amsterdam metropolitan region plans to make public transport more sustainable
Corporate Plan of the Transport Authority Amsterdam
Renewal of regional traffic and transport strategies The Amsterdam (Metropolitan) region is growing: the population increases, employment rises, and the number of visits increases as well and it is expected that without expansions the traffic and transport system will be unable to answer to the mobility demand already on the short term. At the same
Restrictions on circulation and promotion of public transport and sustainable mobility to combat environmental pollution in Barcelona
From December 1st 2017, by virtue of an institutional agreement, the Department of Territory and Sustainability (DTES) of the Generalitat de Catalunya can declare episode situations of environmental air pollution in Barcelona. The agreement was signed in March 2017 between the main agents and the public administrations in Area 40 of the Barcelona conurbation (see
EMTA Members
