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EMTA Strategy & Working program

EMTA Strategy & Working program. Lyon meeting - 23-24 October2006. Membership Development. External relationships. Political Agenda. Working Program. EMTA members. Current Members (26 cities):

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EMTA Strategy & Working program

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  1. EMTA Strategy & Working program Lyon meeting - 23-24 October2006

  2. Membership Development External relationships Political Agenda Working Program

  3. EMTA members • Current Members (26 cities): • Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Birmingham, Brussels, Cadiz, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Oslo, Prague, Seville, Sheffield, Stuttgart, Stockholm, Torino, Valence, Vienna, Vilnius • + Lisbon as observer until the setting up of transport authority • Former members (5 cities): • Warsaw, Athens, Zurich, Geneva, Rome • Interested cities (4 cities): • Copenhagen, Glasgow, Thessaloniki, Rotterdam • Potential members: capital cities or metropolitan area whose population is above 1 million inhabitants (18 cities) • Naples, Katowice, Budapest, Munich, Bucharest, Leeds, Liverpool, Mannheim, Marseilles, Porto, Sofia, Antwerp, Hanover, Riga, Tallinn, Zagreb, Bratislava, Lubjana • Which development for EMTA member cities?

  4. External relationships: institutions • ECMT: • former cooperation on accessiblity issues • request for contribution to the ECMT reform on congestion issues • UITP: • former cooperation on contracting issues: conferences in Rome (2000) and Vienna (2003) • on-going joint working group on quality management with Organising Authorities and Corporate Management Committees • proposal for common work with Transport and Urban Life Committee on social inclusion issues • Involvement in EURFORUM Consortium • CEMR: • Contacts taken with EMTA EU Taskforce about EU PSO Regulation discussions

  5. External relationships: other transport authorities • Transport Authorities being or to be set up • Turkey: participation into a UITP Euroteam Seminar in June 2006 • Eastern and Central Europe • Mediterranean countries • Transport Authorities from other Continents • South America: contacts at EMTA members level (Madrid) • China: contacts at EMTA members level (Stockholm) • North America: formal request from Montreal Transport Authority (also APTA member)

  6. Political agenda • Regulation on public service obligations: • Second reading in EU Parliament and possibly conciliation procedure • Adoption, implementation and monitoring • Green paper on urban transport expected in 2007: which topics to put forward? • But also: • Passengers rights • Impact of third railway package on urban rail • future of European Transport Policy • Energy efficiency strategy • European Accessiblity Act • Which topics to focus on? • Strategy of EU Taskforce

  7. Topics to include in EMTA working program • Sustainable urban transport plans • cooperation project with academics (Politecnico de Madrid): current national legislative frameworks, examples and best practices, evaluation reports • Transport policies and population trends • Survey proposal from Carmen Hass-Klau: impact of transport policies on sustainability of the cities and socio-economic evolution of the population • Benchmarking of ticketing systems • Comparative documents of fares and ticketing systems to compare: level of fares, kind of tickets proposed, targeted population groups, geographical zoning, fare integration… • Comparison of PT infrastructure and operations funding schemes • Update of the 2001 ATM-EMTA study, made by INECO on 10 European cities

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