On 17. January 2024, EPF president Michel Quidort attended the “Connecting the High-Speed Dots” event at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, jointly organised by MEP Ondřej Kovařík, Jiří Svoboda, CEO of Správa železnic, and CER. The event, which gathered MEPs, Commission and CER Representatives, was aimed at presenting the important programme of rail connections to be realised…
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About 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…
Today, planning, booking and executing multimodal journeys – especially long-distance, international ones – is risky, difficult and time-consuming. Therefore, EPF is a strong supporter of the European Commission’s MDMS – Multimodal Digital Mobility Services – initiative, which would tackle the issue of data sharing and also distribution agreements between transport operators and mobility service providers…
On 12. December, EPF organised a webinar in the context of the TOD-IS-RUR (Transit-Oriented Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural-Urban Regions) project. The target audience of the webinar consisted of the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) employed by the project. The 2-hour event, moderated by Wandi Chivaura from EPF, provided an insightful exploration into user-centric solutions…
On 4. December, EPF was invited to participate as a speaker in a parliamentary hearing on the performance of the Package Travel Directive and consumer protection, organised by the IMCO committee (Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee). The video of the hearing, as well as the presentations of the speakers, can be found on the…
On Thursday 30 November, Delphine Grandsart participated in the Polis Conference session “Smart & Just”. In this interactive session of 1.5 hours, a series of 13 speakers had 5 minutes each to pitch their challenges and ideas related to New Mobility Services (NMS). After two rounds of pitches, participants broke off into smaller groups to…
We are delighted to announce that the annual EPF Conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland on Friday June 21st and Saturday June 22nd, 2024. The 2024 conference venue is Ibis Warszawa Stare Miasto (Old Town)! The venue is located in the northern part of the center, close to Warsaw’s picturesque Old Town. The programme will…
We are pleased to announce the successful conclusion of AURORA, a project in which EPF has been a partner for three years. AURORA and its sibling projects AiRMOUR and Flying Forward 2020 organised their joint final event – “Elevating Urban Air Mobility” – on 22 November, 2023, at the European Convention Centre in Luxemburg. As…
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…
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…
EPF member PRO BAHN, a non-governmental organisation powered by volunteers advocating for public transport users in Germany, recently honored ALLRAIL Secretary General Nick Brooks with its Annual Passenger Award, in recognition of Nick’s unwavering commitment and tireless effort to improving rail passengers’ experiences, advancing passenger rights and the implementation of Full Transparency and Mandatory Through…
Plans to close rail ticket offices have been withdrawn by train operators following Transport Focus and London TravelWatch objecting to all of the current proposals. Transport Focus and London TravelWatch received 750,000 responses from individuals and organisations to their consultation on the planned closure of rail ticket offices. The Secretary of State for Transport announced…