On March 19th, Katie Bulanowski participated in the workshop, “Leaving no-one behind: safe, accessible and inclusive mobility”, at the Eurocities Mobility Forum in Utrecht.
Moderated by Eurocities’ Arianna Americo and Francesco Iacorossi, this workshop was the first in a series of workshops around the UPPER project’s Mobility-as-a-Right (MaaR) concept. The MaaR concept is one of the pillars of the […]
Joint Press Release – 05.02.2024
Potential passengers need easy access to timetable information and quick access to tickets. Recent legal rulings have shown: The EU and its Member States finally need to make trains easier to find and book for the citizens who are paying for it.
But how should this be done?
Renfe has committed to providing unrestricted access to its […]
The IMPACTS project (Inclusive Mobility: Public and Collaborative Trusted Spaces), a one-year project supported by EIT Urban Mobility and led by TU Berlin, envisioned a human-centric public transport where passengers feel safe, support fellow travellers, and contribute feedback to improve services. IMPACTS developed a socio-technical tool, WizGo, that (i) connects passengers of mobility services in proximity off- and online and (ii) […]
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The IMPACTS project (Inclusive Mobility: Public and Collaborative Trusted Spaces), a one-year project supported by EIT Urban Mobility, envisioned a human-centric public transport where passengers feel safe, support fellow travellers, and contribute feedback to improve services.
IMPACTS developed a socio-technical tool that connects (i) passengers of mobility services in proximity off- and online and (ii) allows users to report issues in the urban […]
On Tuesday November 7th, Marc Debrincat, delegate of the Fédération Nationale des Associations d’Usagers des Transports (FNAUT, founding member of EPF), represented EPF at the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) anniversary event of the CIV uniform rules.
The first International Convention concerning the Carriage of Passengers and Luggage by Rail (CIV) entered into force in 1928. This […]
This year, EPF’s Spanish member Associació per a la Promoció del Transport Públic (PTP) has reached a significant milestone: 30 years of promoting public transport.
PTP has been working towards better public transport since 1993, in order to achieve a more sustainable country and cohesive society. Since its establishment, PTP has grown to 402 associates and partners.
Since June 2023, PTP has […]
The IMPACTS Project aims to enhance public transport safety, encourage mutual support, and improve urban mobility through innovative solutions. In order to obtain relevant feedback from stakeholders on these innovations, EPF organised an onsite workshop on Saturday, 3rd of June 2023 in Barcelona, as part of the EPF annual conference (agenda). Prior to the workshop, EPF distributed a pre-workshop […]
On May 23rd, Delphine Grandsart of EPF participated in the final event of Lynx4Rail and Lynx4Rail II at the UIC premises in Paris.
Europe’s Rail JU is a public-private partnership in the rail sector, co-financed by the Horizon Europe programme, funding research and innovation and harmonising standards to deliver the railway system of the future. In order to ensure that […]
On June 26, 2023, the European Commission issued a Notice on “Interpretative guidelines concerning Regulation (EC) N° 1370/2007 on public passenger transport services by road and rail”. To EPF, which supported this document from the beginning, this is good news for passengers, as it is extending the scope of public transport contracting to other activities than purely local services. […]
Last week on July 6th EPF was present at the European Parliament at the Conference “Lessons Learned in Rail Safety in the EU”, organized by MEP Ana Miranda (Greens, Spain).
The conference aimed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Alvia train accident in Galicia (2013), which was one of the most tragic train accidents in recent decades in which […]
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