{"id":10139,"date":"2019-06-12T11:21:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:29:29","slug":"looking-back-at-our-stockholm-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/looking-back-at-our-stockholm-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at our Stockholm conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 7th and 8th June, EPF held its annual conference in Stockholm. We look back to two days of very interesting presentations and discussions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iLQzNSzfAms\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first day focused on <strong>experiences from liberalized rail markets<\/strong>. Speakers included Libor Lochman (Executive Director CER), Gustav Sj\u00f6blom (Transportstyrelsen), Isabel Schleich (Strategic Project Manager FlixTrain), Gunnar Alexandersson (Senior researcher Stockholm School of Economics), Bryony Chetwode (TravelWatch SouthWest) and Jakop Dalunde (MeP and coordinator for the Greens at the TRAN-committee).<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, there was an equally interesting round of presentations focusing on <strong>ticketing and pricing models<\/strong>, by Evelin Skeppstr\u00f6m (SilverRail), Annette Skaarn\u00e6s (Commercial director Entur),\u00a0Maria Hofberg (Director Revenue Management SJ),\u00a0Mats Johannesson (CEO MTR Express) and Nick Brooks (Secretary General Allrail).<\/p>\n<p>On the second conference day, the focus was on the role of consumer and passenger groups in shaping the future of (public) transport. We listened to inspiring speeches from <strong>consumer group representatives<\/strong>\u00a0Lars Str\u00f6mgren (European Cyclists\u2019 Federation),\u00a0Michael Randropp (Danish passengergroup Kystbanen),\u00a0\u00d6rjan Brinkman (President BEUC) and\u00a0Rasmus Markussen (Passagerpulsen Denmark). Finally, Elisabeth Kotthaus (Head of unit at DG MOVE for Social Aspects, Passenger Rights &amp; Equal Opportunities) spoke about EU passenger rights.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, we discussed on how to improve conditions for vulnerable passenger groups and young people. Delphine Grandsart (EPF) presented the results of the EU research project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hireach-project.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HiReach <\/a>that aims to tackle transport poverty and has analysed the needs of various vulnerable to exclusion groups with regard to transport and mobility. Other speakers included Tom Andersson (Trafikanalys, Swedish government agency for transport analysis), Estelle Berger (Resen\u00e4rsforum),\u00a0Erika Sil\u00e9n &amp; Marcus Holm (InterRail influencers).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and especially Emil Frodlund and his colleagues from Resen\u00e4rsforum who did an excellent job organising the conference as well as the side events!<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned: the presentations will be online soon! Make sure you don&#8217;t miss it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/epf.us5.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=b7f4a776b4a7d9a55132a77db&amp;id=ca7c247020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register for our newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7th and 8th June, EPF held its annual conference in Stockholm. We look back to two days of very interesting presentations and discussions. The first day focused on experiences from liberalized rail markets. Speakers included Libor Lochman (Executive Director CER), Gustav Sj\u00f6blom (Transportstyrelsen), Isabel Schleich (Strategic Project Manager FlixTrain), Gunnar Alexandersson (Senior researcher Stockholm School of Economics), Bryony Chetwode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epf.eu\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}