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3 May 2016 | By Intelligent Transport
Just some of the features in this issue include a Foreword from Pascal Smet, Minister of Mobility & Public Works, Brussels; How intermodal travel is benefitting Manchester, London, Copenhagen, Umeå and Brussels; Luc Bioul and Luc Derie of STIB illustrate Belgium’s Metro new line construction, existing line conversion and signalling…
Thomas Kritzer – Head of the Department for Security and Service at Wiener Linien – gives an overview of the approach and use of CCTV for Vienna’s public transport network, highlighting its operational benefits and how the arrival of new technology can provide greater security advantages in the future.
Tomás Melero explains how CITRAM is revolutionising the traditional concept of public transport management; Eduardo Hernandez Ledesma discusses intelligent image analysis; and Thomas Kritzer looks at CCTV as a multipurpose tool...
Dorthe Nøhr Pedersen discusses multi-modal travel promoted by public transport authorities; Peter Boulton looks at the delivery of effective and functional interchanges in Greater Manchester; and Ian Hall asks whether intermodality is a key element for urban mobility strategies...
3 May 2016 | By Intelligent Transport
We preview this year's European Bus Forum, where leading figures will showcase their vision and expertise, plus debate funding, regulation, scheduling and service design, BRT and DRT systems and passenger demand and expectations...
3 May 2016 | By Pascal Smet, Minister of Mobility and Public Works, Brussels
Brussels needs a new balance. We need to move from being a city for cars to a city for people. There’s no denying that Brussels has too many cars. Urban planning dating back to the 1950s and 1960s placed cars centrally in the city’s design. Over the last couple of…
3 May 2016 | By Luc Bioul and Luc Derie, STIB
370 million journeys are undertaken each year in the Belgian capital and year on year increasing use is being made of the buses, trams and metros belonging to the Brussels Public Transport Company (STIB). In order to keep up with the ever increasing number of travellers – and continue to…
3 May 2016 | By Rémi Feredj, Head of Assets and Industrial Planning Department, RATP
To match the growth in transport offering and renewed bus, metro and RER rolling stock requirements, RATP Group is adapting its industrial facilities in Paris (extensions, restructuring and modernisation) to maintain the quality of its transport networks and service provided for passengers. By transforming enclosed industrial sites into genuine components…
3 May 2016 | By Eleonora Pazos, Head of the Latin America Division, UITP
A quick walk through the centre of any large Latin American city will be enough to establish who rules the urban space. While approximately 100 million cars (one for every five people) are used on a daily basis, public transport has been losing ground each year. Users frequently experience inadequate…
3 May 2016 | By Eva Muñoz, SIMON Project Manager
People with mild or severe disabilities – either temporary or permanent – represent almost 80 million people in the EU. That equates to one in six citizens facing different attitudinal and environmental barriers that prevent them from fully participating in society and the economy. In particular, access to transport and…
Intermodality has its challenges but is on the agenda of city transport authorities across Europe. Ian Hall asked three cities to showcase their intermodality initiatives.
A good transport interchange will make travel easier. There are many elements that determine the overall quality but, broadly speaking, that is the acid test. For Eurotransport, Transport for Greater Manchester’s Head of Programme Management Services, Peter Boulton, explains how that idea exists at the very core of completed, developing…
Promoting multi-modal transport is essential if cities are to quench the thirst of its citizen’s ever-increasing need for mobility. A strong and efficient public transport service provides the necessary backbone for multi-modal transport, and public transport already holds the multi-modal customer base. According to Dorthe Nøhr Pedersen, CEO of Movia…
A CCTV system provides service in different phases of a security process. As a fixed and visible element it has a deterrent effect and impacts the prevention phase, while the recorders facilitate the forensic analysis of incidents and enable solutions to be designed to mitigate security vulnerabilities. However, it has…
CITRAM is the integrated public transport management centre of the Madrid region public transport authority – Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM) which became fully operational in August 2013, following a long period of technological integration that lasted six years. Since then, CITRAM has become a model for other…
