Overview of LINK Project and outcomes

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Overview of LINK Project and outcomes
31 March 2010
Project funded by the European Commission, DG MOVE
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• - no acronym

but a symbol
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Project LINK

• Funded by DG MOVE (formerly TREN) 2007-2010
• Consortium 17 partners in 13 countries(research,
  consultants, operators, NGO)
• Objectives
• Fostering intermodality as user oriented
  principle for policy, planning, operating
• Creating a European Forum on intermodal passenger
  transport

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Focus relevance

• combined use of different modes of transport on
  long-distance trips (gt100 km), partially
  cross-border travelling, including first last
  mile
• few trips , but accounting for many person-km
• Few people travelling long distances(10
  population 50 trips)
• Considerable differences across EU
• Competing first against car, second aviation

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Barriers on European Level

• No (powerful) lobbies /fragmented stakeholder
  interests
• Lack of awareness of policy makers
• Little institutionalisation

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EU objectives

• Low carbon transport
• More environmentally sustainable transport
• Safe, secure and high quality transport (user
  focus)
• Multimodal and fully integrated networks
• Innovative transport services and technologies
• Developing the human capital
• Smart prices
• Liberalisation of markets (transport)
• Technological progress/ information society

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Related to EU policies

• Action Plan Urban Transport (Sep 2009)
• Action Plan ITS (Dec 2008)
• Action Plan Airport Capacity (Jan 2007)
• White Paper Future of Transport (expected end
  2010)
• Green Paper Revision of TEN-T
• Research FP7
• ...

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LINKs research

• screening of existing research results ?
  Virtual library350 intermodal research works
• Good practice database (70 cases)

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• Needs for further Research e.g.
• How shall we make the best use of new IT
  solutions?
• Willingness to pay for additional services, e.g.
  information
• How shall we overcome cross-border
  discrepancies?
• See according Report 23a and Report 23b click
  directly on link

• Exchange
• 3 Europe-wide Conferences
• Numerous events on national level

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The Working Groups

• Aims
• Bringing together a wide range of European
  stakeholders administrations, operators,
  researchers, lobby groups
• Elaboration of strategic recommendations on means
  to enhance Passenger Intermodality in Europe
• 5 thematic areas
• Door-to-door information and ticketing
• Intermodal networks and interchanges
• Integration of long-distance transport and the
  last urban mile
• Planning and implementation
• Context conditions
• 4 meetings - more than 100 stakeholders directly
  involved
• First time of such a broad discussion on
  Passenger Intermodality in Europe

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The LINK Community

• Ownership of the forum
• Meeting people and informal exchange

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Output

• 19 recommendations along 6 fields of
  intervention
• Policy and funding
• Directives and regulation
• Standardisation and technology
• Assessment and planning
• Innovative products and services
• Training and education
• Assessment Feasibility, cost, impact, timing,
  other factors
• Description of concrete actions Who, what, when,
  where?

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Most relevant document

• Full document Recommendations and Strategies for
  Passenger Intermodality in Europe
• Summary document at a glance
• available next to many other documents on

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Key messages

• Broad agreement among experts Urgent need for
  further integration of transport modes to
• increase the efficiency of the overall transport
  system,
• tackle environmental challenges and
• improve the service quality for the long-distance
  traveller.
• Feasible ways to address the challenges do exist
• EC with core role to initiate discussion and
  co-operation among relevant stakeholders and to
  set right framework (? new Transport White Paper)

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Selected Recommendations
European intermodal door-to-door journey planner

• White Paper for a European journey planner
  ticketing / part of wider themed White Paper

• Study/ Roadmap how to technically roll out a
  journey planner

• Directive transport operators to provide minimum
  content and quality of travel data to journey
  planners

• TAP-TSI standard for basic tariff and timetable
  information provided to transp.authorities

• TAP-TSI on long distance rail ticket distributors
  providing joined up information on door to door
  ticketing (later coach)

• TAP-TSI standard for long distance electronic
  ticketing compatible with local fare management

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Selected Recommendations- EU Funding for
intermodality
Marco Polo II (freight) 2007-2013 (EUR 450 Mio.)
2007-2010
Passenger intermodality funding phasing-in
Preparatory actions and first demos
EU Intermodal Transport Funding Programme for
Freight Passenger Sector 2014 - 2021
Administrative handling by EACI
Monitoring and evaluation
Marco Polo III (freight)
Vasco da Gama I (passengers)
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Selected Recommendations- Passenger rights

• Awareness, information and knowledge are
  fundamental
• prerequisites for pass.rights
• Improving quality and transparency of pass.rights
  info
• by each operator
• by European platform
• all relevant information about pass.rights
• covering intermodal and international trips
• set of (minimum) information about different
  modes, countries or contact details
• cooperation of institutions
• National enforcement bodies
• Conciliation bodies
• Sound EU intermodal passenger rights strategy

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LINK plus continuation after funding

• LINK project has produced valuable outputs and
  network
• Desire to continue a stakeholder forum with a
  wide range of coordination and technical
  activities
• Workshops, conferences, networking
• Good practice documentation
• Creating EU policy position papers
• Preparing and developing pilot projects
• Supporting development of the European research
  agenda
• Little interest from stakeholders in
  substantially financing such a broad reaching
  European activity
• Problem to find organisation willing to drive
  continuation of LINK without funding or sufficent
  policy motivation
• Most realistic option - pursuit of external (EU)
  funding
• short / medium-term opportunities STEER,
  INTERREG, FP7
• conditions of funding dictate what can be funded
• none of them covers full range of proposed LINK
  agenda

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Contact

• Patrick Hoenninger (co-ordinator)
• ILS - Research Institute for Regional Urban
  Development/ Institut für Landes- und
  Stadtentwicklungsforschung
• Deutsche Straße 22-24, 44135 Dortmund, Germany
• Patrick.hoenninger_at_ils-forschung.de
• phone [phone]