EPF was at TRA – Transport Research Arena – in Dublin last month, participating as a panelist in a Strategic Session on People Centred & Inclusive Mobility. During the session, Delphine Grandsart from EPF highlighted the need to involve end-users – including vulnerable to exclusion groups – in the development of mobility services in order to have a public […]
Connecting Europe Days 2024, Europe’s mobility flagship event, took place on 2-5 April at the SQUARE in Brussels, Belgium. EPF was invited as a speaker in Debate 9: Passenger Rights and TEN-T.
The Connecting Europe Days conference brought together more than 3.200 participants from over 80 countries. Participants included Ministers, politicians, financial institutions, industry representatives, transport stakeholders and the European Commission and related […]
Joint Press Release – 16.04.2024
This month, at a meeting in Brussels, European Transport Ministers called on the EU to make rail the backbone of European mobility.
They want legislation so that “passengers can easily compare, book and pay for their door-to-door train journey in a trans-European perspective”.
It must be possible for travellers to book door-to-door journeys across […]
Christopher Irwin, who is also the co-chair of the Sector Stakeholders’ Group that advises the intergovernmental Platform on Cross-Border Passenger Rail, was amongst those who gave a presentation at the Platform’s Workshop in London in April on ticketing and related matters. His presentation emphasised the importance of focusing on defining what was required of a modernised ticketing system – […]
Network Rail, Britain’s main rail infrastructure manager, launched an Extreme Heat Task Force (EHTF) in July 2022 in response to record temperatures which had caused significant disruption for passengers. The remit of the EHTF was to assess how network resilience might be improved in these conditions and how other countries manage these conditions more effectively.
Network Rail invited Transport Focus […]
On 7. March, EPF’s senior researcher Delphine Grandsart was invited to participate in the RailTech conference in Utrecht as a panelist in a debate focused on the question “Will passengers benefit from market opening?” Other speakers were Viola Sütő (LegalRail), Nick Brooks (ALLRAIL) and Tijmen Voet (NS). So… will passengers benefit from market opening? For EPF, the answer is […]
On 29. November 2023, the European Commission adopted a “Passenger Mobility Package”, a set of proposals designed to improve the experience of passengers and travellers by strengthening their rights, focusing on three aspects:
Stronger passenger rights
Protection of package travellers
Data and digitalization / automation in the transport sector.
In our feedback to the new proposals under point 1 – […]
🚀 The SIGN-AIR website is LIVE! The main goal of the SIGN-AIR project is to build a platform to allow Transport Service Providers of different modes to generate and monitor data-sharing agreements and smart contracts, improving multimodality and creating a seamless transportation system.
🌍 Our job doesn’t stop there; we also focus on creating knowledge along the way, passing it […]
Over the last decades, liberalization has led to cheaper, safer, and more comprehensive air connections throughout the EU. This was driven in large parts by vigorous competition between airlines, engaging in a constant effort to outcompete their peers by developing and improving their services.
Now, the European air travel industry stands at a crossroads. Large and increasingly dominant airline groups […]
Representatives of EPF members from Belgium, the Netherlands, UK and France – countries served by Eurostar – met with Gareth Williams, Eurostar’s General Secretary & Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer, and several of his colleagues mid-January for an annual meeting. EPF and Eurostar exchanged on various topics, such as investments in new hubs and infrastructure, as well as through ticketing and […]
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