A Vision for Public Transport in Europe

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VOYAGER - Vehicle for Mobility - Advancing Public Passenger Transport in Europe
   
Scope of the Project
VOYAGER is a Thematic Network that responds to the issues identified in the Key Action "Sustainable Mobility and Intermodality", within the European Union 5th Framework Thematic Programme "Competitive and Sustainable Growth".

VOYAGER aims to facilitate a fundamental evolution in public transport to meet current and future societal needs for high quality, accessible, frequent, widespread and safe mobility. To this end VOYAGER will establish a comprehensive vision of the public passenger transport systems required in the future.

VOYAGER intends to identify future PT systems and service requirements and the critical development path to implement actions to achieve these needs. This will include addressing current urban and regional transport challenges such as congestion, pollution, accidents and economic inefficiency as well as changing mobility patterns, increasing urbanisation and urban sprawl. It is the objective of the network to identify sustainable solutions with a direct and positive effect on urban environments and the quality of life.

VOYAGER in this perspective goes beyond the establishment of a thematic network in providing a reference tool and a vision, which defines the future organisation and structure of the public transport sector.
   
Objectives
The purpose of VOYAGER is to consequently create an open European Network of key actors of local and regional Public Transport for experience exchange, dissemination and consensus building. VOYAGER will establish a platform where PT stakeholders (operators, suppliers, authorities, researcher and users) air their views, give input on current and planned actions and ultimately provide recommendations to improve PT environment to a level that fully meets the transport user's requirement.
   
Schedule
To achieve this vision, VOYAGER will perform the following tasks over a period of 40 months, having started in September 2001:
- identify the state of the art of local and regional PT
- identify key barriers and challenges for implementing competitive and attractive public transport systems at local and regional level
- validate the impacts of various innovative concepts and strategies of public transport
- select and develop "good practice" case studies
- develop specific guidelines and policy recommendations for all public transport stakeholders on the needed actions to realize efficient, safe and customer-oriented public transport systems
- widely disseminate the key outcomes of the project
   
Partners
VOYAGER is a 100% EC funded project that will be implemented by a consortium consisting of UITP (B) as co-ordinator, POLIS (B), Socialdata (D), TIS. PT (P), Rupprecht Consult GmbH (D), Babtie spol. s.r.o. (CZ), CERTU (F), Bureau ZUIDEMA (NL), AMT Genova (I), UWE Bristol (UK).
   
Links
http://www.voyager-network.org
http://www.eltis.org
   
Contact
For more information, please contact studies@uitp.com