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Activity report EMTA internal affairs

General Meeting Copenhagen

18 April 2013 Working session

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EMTA Internal Affairs

•Approval of Berlin GM - Record of Decisions

•Accounting: - closing of the 2012 account- endorsing 1st revised budget 2013 (treasurer) Carlos

•Membership issues- Resignation letter SYPTE (David Brown)- aVM abolished: no continuation Generalitat expected•New membership: MR Rotterdam-Den Haag Other options?

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Progress Report at European Level (1)DG-MOVE agenda (1)

EC-launching document on SUMPs (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) in preparation; EMTA-support offered support to EC Bid prepared in REVOLVE (CENTRO-CRTM and 4 members) Maria and Rafael Cuesta (CENTRO);EMTA is involved in the launching doc for SUMPs

Access Restrictions Stakeholders ARS meeting (review of the DG MOVE progress on implementation Action Plan on Urban Mobility February 5, 2013 Brussels) Broad stakeholders meeting 16/04/2013.

Urban ITS Expert group – Deliverables EC January 19,Smart ticketing, Multimodal Travel Information, Traffic dataPublic consultation 1 Februari started.

See draft comment on Guidelines for Multimodal Travel information (11/4/2013): closing recommendations and future ambitions, to be discussed in Roundtable 1 Digitalization

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Progress Report at European Level (2)DG-MOVE Agenda (2)

Enabling Regulation (EC proposal COM(2012) 730 final)

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/legislation/enabling_regulation_en.pdf

Protest to remove of art.9 (PSO 1370/2007) block exemption of notification for State aid on public service contracts: issue of joint communiqué (dd. 29/01/13) to DG MOVE/DG COMP/DG Markt)

Interpretative Guidelines on PSO regulation 1370/2007 Publication awaited this month!

Modifications of the PSO regulation (i.e. thresholds on article 5.6 exception on compulsory tendering)

Fourth Railway Package: range of legal impacts i.e. on the restriction of exemption for tendering PSC for railways

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Progress Report at European Level (3)

TEN-T: Next round of TEN-T budget to be announced as part of the ESF for 2014-2020

City HUB-project: EMTA SG involved as expert partnerinception workshop (Budapest 20 March). Main goal improve  the Deliverable 2.1Review of theory, policy and practice about interchanges.

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EMTA deliverables Directory 2011

– Content almost completed: lack of advertisers to lower costs incurred. Note: some members took over a year to update input “law of the handicap of the head start”: update needed from those members who delivered on time! For next time mind the social aspect: start timely and give priority or leave it all together. ALL FOR ONE!

– Full version will be uploaded on website. Barometer 2011

- Published december 2012. Vision on Metropolisation: courtesy to Lorenza Tomasoni of

Laboratoire Ville Mobilité Transport (Université de Paris (www.lvmt.fr) Comments: please before May 1, 2013. Goal: transform to EMTA Brief (mid May)

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Progress ReportNFC Working GroupStill room to enlarge participation of EMTA-members, in support of NFC-working group to enrich debate, draw useful recommendations.Working group: Barcelona, Oslo, Manyfold impediments to enter into testing NFCProgress report on intermediary findings: today by our special guest at Roundtable 1 (digitalization).

Barometer Working Group (relaunch)Leaflet format for 2012 improved and simultaneously work on a new format for publication in 2014 (data 2012)develop an open data platform for all membersDG MOVE meeting 2-3 May? To start scoping DG MOVE needs on data. (Maria/Ruud)To confirm and open up for new entrants. Volunteers? Now in: Torino, Barcelona, Madrid, Warsaw, Montreal.

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Progress ReportAccessibility Working Group (AWG)Small group: in need of fresh impulse, building new strategies mr L. Alegre (ATM): analyse possible connections on ITS-strategy of MM

travel information, wayfinding, open data. Proposal for relaunch of AWG with focus on:- search partners to follow up on Europe regulationsin order to enhance EMTA visibility- stimulate integration of accessibility in European projects on intermodality/accessibility (i.e. Eltis, Origami)- seek ways to cooperate with European Disability Forum- transfer of knowledge on good practices to all EMTA members (database on the EMTA website?)

Announced: “European Accessibility Act”, by end of 2012? In Berlin was also announced: a survey on barriers to accessing public spaces, buildings and services ?

Call for members to join our AWG: volunteers ?

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Progress Report

…Working Group on EU regulation: - PSO (Fourth Railway Package, Interpretative guidelines)- Procurement Directive (recast)

Planning to put a working group together, attracting knowledge of expertise of Avanzata Consulting e.o.

Need for renew expertise and energy.

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Queries reports- BKK Budapest: survey on geographical/geospatial info systems (GIS)

- CRTM Madrid: Multimodal Management Centers from (Laura)

- VBB Berlin: Social media in PTA’s (Eike Arnold): full report in Vienna

- ZTM Warsaw: free ticket for employees of OA’s

- CRTM Madrid: Trimestrial passes (Laura)

- Politecnico di Torino (Technical University of Torino): benchmark study about Public Transport and Metropolitan Authorities.Request of prof. Cristina Pronello: had only 8 responses,Please help CP to fill out more! (see email of SA of January 21 with link)- Susisiekimo paslaugos: Ownership of e-ticketing equipment (Vilnius):Great score (21 respondents) and interesting outcome!

• Queries and questionnaires

E-ticketing equipment ownersNr. City PT

agencyPT

operators Comments

1 Amsterdam x

2 Barcelona x

3 Berlin x

4 Birmingham x

5 Budapest x The upcoming AFC project is set up a centralised AFC system managed by BKK (the transport organising authority). All the equipment will be owned and operated by BKK.

6 Cadiz x

7 Copenhagen x

8 Frankfurt x There was a single subsidy of round about 2000 EUR per vehicle paid by Frankfurt organization.

9 Helsinki x

10 London x TfL is the owner of the ticketing equipment (the Oyster system)

11 Lyon x

12 Madrid x

13 Montreal x x Municipal operators has their own equipment, privat operators rent it from local authority.

14 Prague x All equipment belongs to operators, but for the future Prague (as authority) consider to buy it, provide it to operators and collet fee from them.

15 Valencia x

16 Seville x

17 South Yorkshire x

18 Stockholm x

19 Stuttgart x The region subsidizes the equipment in regional buses with 100%

20 Tallinn x

21 Vilnius x

22 Warsaw x x - operators with a long-term contract are owners of the equipment in their fleet;- operators with a short-term contract borrow the equipment from ZTM;

Summary

• E-ticket equipment belongs to PT Agency in 11 of 22 cities.

• E-ticket equipment belongs to PT operators in 13 of 22 cities.

• 2 cities would like to own the e-ticket equipment in the future.

• The e-ticketing equipment subsidized for operators in 2 cities.

answers provided to the ”express questionnaire on ownership of e-ticketing equipment in EMTA METROPOLITAN AREAS”

• South Yorkshire (Great Britain)• Birmingham (Great Britain)

• London (Great Britain)• Amsterdam (Netherlands)• Copenhagen (Denmark)• Prague (Czech Republic)

• Budapest (Hungary)• Warsaw (Poland)• Helsinki (Finland)• Berlin (Germany)

• Frankfurt (Germany)• Stuttgart (Germany)• Barcelona (Spain)• Valencia (Spain)• Madrid (Spain)• Seville (Spain)• Lyon (France)

• Cadiz (Portugal)• Tallinn (Estonia)

• Montreal (Canada)• Stockholm (Sweden)

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Progress ReportFSR proposalRenewed proposal on staff courses (training or workshops)from Torino (SG-comments and suggestions): 4 yearsProgramme, once a year 2 days training

Proposal ((with regard to the current state of play):a) take up preparation of a pilot (preferably with FSR) aiming both at staff and PTA’s-management, with a specific focus to

European and transport Regulations, policies (‘acquis communautaire’b) EMTA can gear with renowned scholars & training methods of other organisazations( (check on UITP, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam,

Politecnica Torino) to acquire proper level of knowledge, in an economic and didacticly viable manner.Next step: contact EUR, Torino and FSR (prof. M. Finger) on final concept programma. Start launch pilot: Autumn 2013 ?Please give us some comments and experiences.

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Thank you all very much for your consideration to all the queries!

If you have questions or remarks, now is the time!

Ruud