Vienna, 18 April 2018 – UITP has held the final conference to bring a close to the EBSF_2 Project (The European Bus System of the Future 2) – where leading public transport and industry representatives gathered to discuss the success of this pioneering project during the TRA 2018 ( European Transport Research Arena ). EPF…
The European Passengers’ Federation (EPF), the Swedish passengers’ organisation Resenarsforum, the Danish passenger body Passagerpulsen and Council for Sustainable Traffic, the German passengers’ organisation Pro Bahn and Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) are criticising the current service on the longdistance Copenhagen – Hamburg route during engineering work on both the Danish and the German side, and ask DB and…
After six years at the centre of EPF’s activities Stijn Lewyllie, EPF’s Secretary General, has left EPF at the end of February. He provided invaluable administrative under-pinning for the federation. This allowed it to expand both the range of its activities and its influence. It was assisted, in no small part, by Stijn’s natural flair…
BODEGA wants to hear the travellers’ voice to understand how to best support them while crossing the Schengen area. We would like to hear travellers’ opinions about different types of technologies, in addition to their thoughts about the passport control procedure while crossing the border. BODEGA is a research project funded by the European Commission…
The Disability Intergroup of the European Parliament organised on February 28 an “open event” on rail passengers’ rights and persons with reduced mobility (PRMs) with a view to the ongoing revision of the Regulation 1371/2007 on rail passengers’ rights. Key representatives of the Parliament attended and participated in this event: MEP Olga Sehnalova and Kostadink…
During the last Annual General Meeting (Luzern, 2 & 3 February), 3 positions in the Management Board have been new staffed. Rian van der Borgt, acting since several years as treasurer was reelected for another 3 years’ period. Chris Irwin from UK-based Transport Focus and also representing TravelWatch SouthWest had been member until spring 2017.…
The Beneluxparliament consists of members of the national parliaments of Belgium, Luxemburg and Netherlands. The Beneluxparliament was convened in Maastricht on the 24th of November 2017 in the hall where the treaty of Maastricht was signed 25 years before. One of the items on the agenda was the improvement of the rail connections between the…
The independent watchdog Transport Focus has asked more than 12,800 people to rank things that would most improve their journey experience.
Passengers demand feeder train to “Metropol” night train After the timetable change in December the night train “Metropol” is going to be cancelled between Prague and Berlin and will only run between Prague and Budapest. No convenient feeder trains from Germany are provided. Our member organisation Pro Bahn’s media release can be downloaded here.
UITP, IRU and EDF (the European Disability Forum) have jointly published an Accessibility Guide in order to improve public transport services through awareness of staff about persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility. EPF welcomes this initiative and encourages its members to implement it. The Accessibility Guide can be downloaded here.
The European Railway Award was initiated in 2007 and is jointly organised by the CER and UNIFE. This year, EPF has nominated ‘the passenger’ for the European Railway Award. To fulfill the aims of the EU 2011 Transport White Paper, a modal shift is needed towards more environmentally friendly transport modes. In order to encourage and convince more people to…
On the 4th September, the regular 10 minutes frequency of the trains across the Öresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö will be resumed. Successively the problems for the travelling public have been diminished. The obligatory change of trains at Copenhagen Kastrup airport station during more than a year was abolished a few months ago. Still…