๐Ÿš†๐Ÿ”—โœˆ๏ธ What if air and rail were truly connected?

By |March 31st, 2025|

A new Airโ€“Rail Connectivity Index shows how high-speed rail can triple hub airport connectivity!

๐Ÿ“ Tested with Paris-CDG data,
โœ… +72% connectivity when rail is integrated
๐Ÿ“ˆ 3ร— more hub connectivity with airโ€“rail sync
โœ‚๏ธ Can high-speed rail replace short-haul feeder flights?
๐ŸŒฑ A step toward seamless, sustainable journeys

๐Ÿ“– Read the full paper to explore the potential and the data behind it:
https://lnkd.in/dxe2bypM
๐Ÿ“ก Stay tuned […]

InclusiveSpaces webinar – Continuing the legacy

By |March 31st, 2025|

๐Ÿš€ ๐‰๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐”๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ง ๐„๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐–๐ž๐›๐ข๐ง๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Œ๐จ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ! ๐ŸŒโ™ฟ

We are excited to invite you to a webinar exploring how the InclusiveSpaces project builds upon past research and initiatives to advance accessibility, equity, and digital inclusion in mobility.

We will begin with an overview of the InclusiveSpaces project, setting the stage for how it aims to create more inclusive […]

UIC Sustainable Tourism Workshop

By |March 25th, 2025|

From 10 to 13 March 2025, UIC for the second time organised a ‘Sustainabilityย Action Week’:ย a highly interactive 4-day event, with a series of workshops and seminars on a broad range of sustainability topics.

EPF took part in the Sustainable Tourism Workshop on 11 March 2025 at Paris. There are two key issues when deciding in favour of public transport for […]

EPF Holds High-Level Meeting with Eurostar

By |February 27th, 2025|

On Friday, 17 January 2025, representatives from EPF met with Eurostar Secretary General, Gareth Williams and team, for our annual high-level meeting, held in Brussels and online.ย The agenda was based on a preparatory meeting, open to all EPF members.

Eurostar presented an encouraging business outlook, reflecting recovery and growth in demand for high-speed international train travel. Despite operational challenges, fundamental […]

EPF & STA workshop on Ticketing

By |February 14th, 2025|

On 5. February 2025, EPF and STA – Smart Ticketing Alliance – organised a joint workshop for EPF and STA members, on the topic of National Digital Ticketing schemes.

โ€œDigital Ticketingโ€ in public transport is being organised in more and more countries at national level and offered to passengers as an integrated system. In countries where this is not yet […]

Bus Users UK marks 50 years as the passenger champion

By |January 30th, 2025|

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Bus Users UK, the charity committed to improving access to transport.

Set up in 1975 by Dr Caroline Cahm MBE, the organisation was formalised in the 1980s during bus deregulation and known as the National Federation of Bus Users. Its complaints handling service was officially launched in 1985 with the backing of the Confederation […]

Understanding Passenger Views on Train Performance

By |January 16th, 2025|

Transport Focus, one of EPFโ€™s British members, recently commissioned research in order to gain a better understanding of the way that railway performance measures can best reflect passengersโ€™ priorities. The research will help inform forthcoming decisions relating to a reset of the official passenger train performance measures.

The research was designed to explore passengersโ€™ views and aspirations about train performance […]

Interpretative guidelines on PSOs revised

By |March 28th, 2022|

In order to comply with the Green Deal’s objectives, the European Commission has decided to clarify under which conditions the PSO Regulation 1370/2007 could apply to other than local and regional public transport services. To EPF, precisions included in the revised guidelines are welcomed as they reinforce the importance of rail and multimodality.

Thus, with a view to the necessary […]

Train to Kaunas

By |February 17th, 2022|

Kaunas has made a wonderful start to its year as European Capital of Culture. The opening events this month have motivated us all to try to travel to Kaunas at some point by the end of the year.

Unfortunately though, it is currently not possible to reach Kaunas by train! Re-opening cross-border rail services between Lithuania and its EU neighbours […]

Cross-border rail ticketing

By |January 31st, 2022|

The good news is that rail is widely considered as an alternative for planes and cars. The European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council of Ministers are all in favour of rail. In 2021 the European Year of Rail took place, unfortunately in the middle of Covid-19. Not only the European institutions see the need for more […]