On 17 January 2026, EPF organised a dedicated passenger workshop on the Hyper4Rail project during its General Meeting in Brussels. The session was held in a hybrid format, bringing together 22 participants, both in person and online, from across Europe, including representatives from Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Slovenia, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Italy and the United Kingdom.
The workshop formed […]
On 26-27. November, EPF’s Katie Bulanowski attended the 2025 Polis Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The conference brought together over 1.000 stakeholders from cities, industry, and research to discuss a diverse range of mobility topics including transport poverty, inclusion, and behaviour change.
Katie participated in the session “Paved With Purpose: Streets for All”, where speakers presented tools and projects they […]
On 20 November, EPF was present at the PAVE Europe Conference in Brussels, which brought together civil society, service and tech providers, policymakers, researchers, and more to exchange on automated mobility. The dynamic and interactive setting allowed for different perspectives and experiences to be shared.
EPF’s Katie Bulanowski attended the conference and moderated the session, “Trust, Safety and Public Confidence […]
On 29 October, EPF’s Senior Researcher Delphine Grandsart participated in Episode 5 of the European Railcast:”The Passenger experience: Making Rail more Accessible, Affordable and Reliable”. The podcast, hosted by Jacki Davis, explored how Europe can build on existing progress to make rail travel seamless, multimodal, and more passenger-centred.
Delphine was joined by Micol Biscotto, Head of the Grant Office at […]
EPF is pleased to endorse the Nicosia Declaration: “From Margins to Mainstream: Integrating Accessibility and Universal Design Across Higher Education Curricula”. Adopted in Nicosia on 10. September 2025, the Declaration calls for a structural shift in higher education to ensure that accessibility, universal design, and assistive technology are no longer peripheral or optional considerations, but central components of inclusive […]
EPF is excited to be a partner of the new Horizon Europe-funded CCAMbassador (Connected, Cooperative and Automated MoBility Assessment & Stakeholder Dedicated and Operational awareness Raising) project, which officially kicked off in Brussels on 2–3 July.
The CCAMbassador project, funded under Horizon Europe, complements the coordination and alignment efforts of the CCAM Partnership by expanding stakeholder engagement beyond research and […]
On March 27th, Katie Bulanowski participated in the European Mobility Week Workshops in Brussels.
European Mobility Week is the European Commission’s awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility. It culminates in a week of activities on 16-22 September every year, including the popular car-free day, and has huge media appeal (around 3.000 cities register per year). The European Mobility Week workshops […]
Europe’s Rail’s new project Hyper4Rail is bringing hyperloop closer to reality in Europe.
Hyperloop aims to deliver significantly shorter travel times with extremely low energy consumption. Its ambition is to revolutionize European connectivity, reshaping its social and economic geography in the long-term. It does so by operating within a near-vacuum environment, minimizing air-resistance, allowing vehicles to propel at high speeds […]
The NEXUS project aims to transform metro systems by integrating advanced technologies while ensuring sustainability, efficiency, and passenger-focused solutions. By addressing key challenges in urban transport, NEXUS seeks to create a future where metro networks are both technologically innovative and socially responsible.
As part of this effort, NEXUS partners have developed a survey to gather insights from passengers on their […]
EPF is proud to contribute to the Hyper4Rail project which officially launched in December 2024, marking a significant step forward in the harmonisation and industrialisation of hyperloop technology in Europe. This initiative, co-funded by Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, brings together 27 international partners and aims at advancing the development of hyperloop, a concept for magnetically levitated trains running at […]
