ELTIS is designed for everyone involved in improving mobility, transport efficiency and safety as well as reducing the environmental impacts of transport, in particular transport policy-makers and managers, transport operators and user groups.
ELTIS is a World Wide Web site with free public access that currently contains a comprehensive database of approximately 553 local, regional, national & European transport case studies under thirteen headings. These include public passenger transport, walking and cycling, goods transport, roads and traffic management, transport for people with reduced mobility, finance for transport, transport and land use planning, demand management and pricing, integration, intermodality and organisation of transport, services for transport users, environmental impacts, and socio-economic Issues.
The database is in three languages (English, French and German) and has a search engine, allowing a search for all documents on a subject of the user's choice as well as a menu system, in which urban transport practices are grouped into concept themes. In addition, ELTIS offers a variety of interactive services, including news groups, a help-desk and links to relevant web-sites to maximise the dissemination of good practice to professionals and citizens and ensure an up-to-date information flow.

The second part of the project will start within the thematic network VOYAGER due to begin in September 2001. ELTIS will be used as dissemination tool of this thematic network.

There are many features on the internet site. New on ELTIS offers a regular round-up of latest EU local transport news and events as well as an overview of the latest case studies entering ELTIS.

Searching ELTIS provides you with facts and illustrations on urban and regional transport activities in Europe. The ELTIS database incorporates an ever-growing number of transport case studies, concepts and documentation and bibliographical references which you can look up by using your own pre-selected specifications.

Add to ELTIS allows users to publicise and disseminate the results of local transport measures and projects implemented in their city or region. Public transport managers can submit examples of their organisation's own transport activities directly to the ELTIS database.

ELTIS Forum provides you with a platform to participate in the debate on the latest European transport policies and tools.

ELTIS also offers Web Links to other sites of interest in the transport field.

ELTIS was jointly funded by the transport research and policy directorates of DGVII of the European Commission, as part of the follow-up to the Citizens' Network Green Paper, and UITP, the International Union of Public Transport.
ELTIS was developed in partnership with POLIS, a European network of cities and regions promoting innovative transport measures, EURONET, a European research institute specialised in sustainable urban planning and development, Transport and Travel Research Ltd, a transport consultancy offering advice and research to support transport planning and decision-making and Gestionnaires Sans Frontières - Romania, a foundation transferring know-how on transport and environmental management between East and West in Europe. In addition to the project partners, a number of other associations are contributing significantly to the ELTIS database, including the Car Free Cities Network .