European Passengers' Federation

Long distance transport between Sweden, Denmark and Germany

By Delphine Grandsart|April 23rd, 2018|

The European Passengers’ Federation (EPF), the Swedish passengers’ organisation Resenarsforum, the Danish passenger body Passagerpulsen and Council for Sustainable Traffic, the German passengers’ organisation Pro Bahn and Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) are criticising the current service on the longdistance Copenhagen – Hamburg route during engineering work on both the Danish and the German side, and ask DB and DSB to offer attractive […]

0

What is your experience of crossing the Schengen Border?

By Delphine Grandsart|March 14th, 2018|

BODEGA wants to hear the travellers’ voice to understand how to best support them while crossing the Schengen area. We would like to hear travellers’ opinions about different types of technologies, in addition to their thoughts about the passport control procedure while crossing the border.

BODEGA is a research project funded by the European Commission and it aims to develop […]

0

Revision of Rail passenger rights: open event Disability Intergroup

By Delphine Grandsart|March 14th, 2018|

The Disability Intergroup of the European Parliament organised on February 28 an “open event” on rail passengers’ rights and persons with reduced mobility (PRMs) with a view to the ongoing revision of the Regulation 1371/2007 on rail passengers’ rights.

Key representatives of the Parliament attended and participated in this event: MEP Olga Sehnalova and Kostadink Kuneva, co-Presidents of the Disability […]

0

Meeting of the Beneluxparliament

By Delphine Grandsart|January 5th, 2018|

The Beneluxparliament consists of members of the national parliaments of Belgium, Luxemburg and Netherlands. The Beneluxparliament was convened in Maastricht on the 24th of November 2017 in the hall where the treaty of Maastricht was signed 25 years before. One of the items on the agenda was the improvement of the rail connections between the Beneluxcountries and the adjacent […]

0

Rail passengers’ priorities for improvement

By Delphine Grandsart|November 30th, 2017|

The independent watchdog Transport Focus has asked more than 12,800 people to rank things that would most improve their journey experience.

0

Closing the night gap to Prague

By Delphine Grandsart|November 25th, 2017|

Passengers demand feeder train to “Metropol” night train

After the timetable change in December the night train “Metropol” is going to be cancelled between Prague and Berlin and will only run between Prague and Budapest. No convenient feeder trains from Germany are provided.

Our member organisation Pro Bahn’s media release can be downloaded here.

0

Accessibility Guide

By Delphine Grandsart|November 10th, 2017|

UITP, IRU and EDF (the European Disability Forum) have jointly published an Accessibility Guide in order to improve public transport services through awareness of staff about persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility. EPF welcomes this initiative and encourages its members to implement it.

The Accessibility Guide can be downloaded here.

0

EPF nominates the passenger for the European Railway Award

By Delphine Grandsart|October 1st, 2017|

The European Railway Award was initiated in 2007 and is jointly organised by the CER and UNIFE. This year, EPF has nominated ‘the passenger’ for the European Railway Award.

To fulfill the aims of the EU 2011 Transport White Paper, a modal shift is needed towards more environmentally friendly transport modes. In order to encourage and convince more people to use public transport, the passenger […]

0

10 minute frequency Copenhagen-Malmö resumed

By Delphine Grandsart|August 28th, 2017|

On the 4th September, the regular 10 minutes frequency of the trains across the Öresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö will be resumed. Successively the problems for the travelling public have been diminished. The obligatory change of trains at Copenhagen Kastrup airport station during more than a year was abolished a few months ago. Still the trains are slower […]

0

PRM working group report

By Delphine Grandsart|August 8th, 2017|

Kurt Hultgren, on behalf of the EPF management Board, has written a report about the PRM working group in ERA. We are not really satisfied with the work of ERA in this working group. The idea is to implement the rules of accessibility, but the work has not been successful. The report can be downloaded here.

0