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5 European organisations call on Member States to uphold, clarify and strengthen Air Passenger Rights — not weaken them

By |May 14th, 2025|

Today, EPF co-signed a statement, jointly with Age Platform Europe, the European Disability Forum (EDF), ECC France and Germany, and BEUC, calling on Member States to clarify, uphold and make more easily enforceable the Air Passenger Rights Regulation, and not diminish key consumer rights. We are very concerned that the current negotiations would roll back important passenger rights. 

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EFP at Greece Transportation and Infrastructure Summit

By |May 6th, 2025|

EPF’s chair Josef Schneider represented the passenger at the Greece Transportation and Infrastructure Summit in Athens on 30. April. He participated in the panel discussion ‘Promoting sustainable mobility and safety’, along with Stefanos Agiasoglou (OSY), George Georgiadis (UNECE, Inland Transport Committee), Brian Caulfield (Trinity College Dublin) and Vassiliki Danelli-Myloni (Road Safety Institute ‘Panos Mylonas’).

Josef emphasised that in order to […]

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High-speed rail – Implementation Dialogue

By |April 28th, 2025|

On 15. April, EPF Management Board member Willy Smeulders attended the Implementation Dialogue concerning high-speed rail in Europe, organised by Commissioner Tzitzikostas, which will also serve as an input for the development of the high-speed rail masterplan mentioned in the Commissioner’s mission letter.

Implementation Dialogues are part of the EU’s efforts to engage with companies and stakeholders to support compliance […]

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Florence Intermodal Forum on Ticketing

By |April 25th, 2025|

On 11. April, EPF attended the Florence School of Regulation’s 15th Intermodal Forum, which explored key regulatory and industry challenges in achieving a Single Digital Booking and Ticketing system across Europe.

The European Commission (EC) committed to fostering multimodality in 2020 as part of its Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy (SSMS). President Ursula von der Leyen has highlighted in her Political Guidelines […]

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EPF’s 2024 Annual Report Published

By |April 22nd, 2025|

As the public transport landscape continues to progress, EPF remains committed to ensuring that passengers’ needs and rights are strongly represented at the European level. Our 2024 Annual Report highlights EPF’s activities across key areas: policy advocacy, participation in EU-funded projects, and active engagement with our members. Some of the highlights from 2024 include:

Policy Work: EPF acts as a […]

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EPF Welcomes a New Member: Berliner Fahrgastverband IGEB

By |April 21st, 2025|

EPF is thrilled to announce the addition of a new member organisation: Berliner Fahrgastverband IGEB. During the EPF’s recent Annual General Assembly in Luxembourg on 5 April 2025, IGEB was warmly welcomed into the federation. With over four decades of experience, IGEB brings expertise in public transport advocacy, infrastructure planning, and citizen engagement, making it a strong and valuable […]

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EPF at the European Mobility Week Workshops

By |April 17th, 2025|

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 […]

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EPF Annual General Meeting elects two new members to the Management Board

By |April 8th, 2025|

EPF’s Annual General Meeting took place in Luxembourg on 5. April.

➡️ MEP Tilly Metz (European Greens) was welcomed as a guest and current topics from European transport policy were discussed with her. The focus was on ticketing issues and the EU’s imminent focus on high-speed transport. The participants agreed with Ms Metz that point-to-point transport cannot be considered in […]

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    Help Shape the Future of Hyperloop – Take the Hyper4Rail User Survey

Help Shape the Future of Hyperloop – Take the Hyper4Rail User Survey

By |April 2nd, 2025|

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 […]

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    Explore the Programme and Speakers at the EPF Conference 2025

Explore the Programme and Speakers at the EPF Conference 2025

By |March 31st, 2025|

We are pleased to present the programme for our 22nd Annual Conference, taking place on 13–14 June 2025 at the STEAM Museum in Swindon, UK.

This year’s conference will feature a diverse programme designed to address key challenges and opportunities in public transport across Europe. Sessions will focus on:

Back to state operated public transport? From deregulation back to regulation […]

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