COMmon PROcurement of collective and public service transport clean vehicles

1. COMmon PROcurement of collective and public service transport clean vehicles COMPRO Follower cities Working Group meeting Rome – Hotel Colosseum 30 January 2009

2. The European Questionnaire Albania (1): Tirana Czeck Rep (1): Prague France (7): Angers; Clermont Ferrand; La Rochelle; Lorient; Metz; Poitiers; Toulouse; Paris Germany (2): Bremen; Oldenburg; üstra Ireland (1): Dublin Italy (11): Bolzano; Firenze; Genova; Milano; Modena; Napoli; Padova; Perugia (Region); Roma; Torino; Trentino Latvia (1): Riga Netherlands(1): Den Haag Poland: (2): Krakow; Warsaw Portugal (1): Funchal Romania (2): Ploiesti; Craiova Slovenia (1): Ljubljana Spain (3): Barcelona; Burgos; Torrent Estadella Sweden (4): Jönköpings; Malardalen; Norrköping; Örebreo; Uppsala UK (2): Cardiff; Transdev UK TOTAL TOTAL Countries: Cities: 15 43

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6. Previous Events First Compro Workshop “Clean Technologies for Buses” 4 March 2008 Nantes • 90 participants attended the workshop to exchange around innovative experiences and projects in the field of clean buses. • From main European bus manufacturers to European major cities experimenting new projects of public transport or flagship organisations in the field of environment or transport (the UITP, Transdev, the French national agency for environment): many speakers had come to share their experiences and vision of the future of clean buses in general and CNG and hybrid technologies in particular. First Public Meeting of the COMPRO Working Group “Cost-efficiency of Hybrid and CNG Buses through Common Procurement” 18 September 2008 Bremen • Over 80 participants took part in the meeting which started with a presentation about the future needs for energy efficient public transport. The experiences cities have made with CNG and hybrid buses where then showcased (New York, Üstra and Oldenburg). Which lessons were learnt and what are the needs? The audience had then the opportunity to listen to presentations highlighting the basic features of common procurement, the barriers and the chances. • An open debate among all participants was afterwards animated with structured questions. The aim was to find altogether the common denominator on the demand side and boost the process of common procurement for CNG and hybrid buses. 2 PMG meetings 5 March 2008 Nantes 19 September 2008 Bremen

7. Results from PMGs • The overall exercise of the PMG will be based on the EC proposal for directive on the promotion of clean and energy efficient road transport vehicles (COM(2007) 817 final). The directive implies that public authorities and operators providing services under a contract with a public authority, will have to include as award criteria for the procurement of buses the “operational lifetime costs”. According to the directive, the operational lifetime costs mean the monetised values for energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and pollutant emissions that are linked to the operation of the vehicles to be procured, calculated in accordance with a specific methodology set out in the directive.According to the EC, the lifetime mileage of a bus is 800 000 Km. • In respect to the directive, the manufacturers’ position is in favour of a dialogue with the potential purchasers so as to define together the vehicles technical specifications that would respond to the directive requirements. • While manufacturers welcome the debate on buses specifications to meet the ‘operational lifetime costs’ limits, they are not in the position to analyse the process according to a specific energy technology such as CNG and/or hybrid as foreseen in the COMPRO project. They made a technology neutral approach an absolute requirement. • Anyhow, as for the technologies analysed in COMPRO, they considered that hybrid has a greater potential compared to CNG, for which not much further development can be seen.