Save the date 7-8 June – EPF conference Stockholm
Book your trip now to the next EPF-conference in Stockholm that will take place in the Nordic summer light days in the beginning of June.
Ghent on its way to TMaaS
Since early 2018, the city of Ghent has been working with a number of industrial and academic partners on a modular and multimodal cloud platform for TMaaS, Traffic Management as a Service. In the first phase of the European project, the partners conducted extensive research among users. A report.
Rail Passengers’ Rights Recast
So far a satisfactory issue for EPF
After the vote of the European Parliament in plenary session on November 15 in Strasbourg, the issue of the Regulation 1371/2007 recast on Rail Passengers’ Rights is so far satisfying EPF, as amendments initiated or supported by our Federation have been adopted.
Main points are:
The excuse of “force majeure” has been deleted from […]
Discover EU
The DiscoverEU program opens is second round of applications today. The initiative aims to provide free “Interrail” passes to 18 years old persons that are EU citizens. These passes will allow 18 years-old to travel across Europe for free for a certain period of time.
HiReach news
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The Third HiReach Consortium and Take-Up Group meeting took place on 19-21 November 2018 in Athens, Greece. The meeting was kindly hosted by the consortium partner INTRASOFT International.
After more than one […]
New platform for rail security
EPF has been invited to send two representatives to attend the European Commission’s new expert group, the EU Rail Passenger Security Platform, as observers. Its purpose is to develop a common methodology for evaluating threats to the security of rail users and to exchange information on and develop good practice. Willy Smeulders and Christopher Irwin, who are both already […]
PRM Advisory Body meeting
The DG MOVE Advisory Body had a meeting in Brussels on 2 October, attended by Kurt Holtgren representing EPF.
It is quite clear that the users’ point of view has to be given to the Commission, especially since the MS representatives in the Advisory Body (as well as in the ERA PRM WG) are the NSA (National Safety Authorities) representatives, […]
ST4RT & GOF4R Final Conference
The GoF4R Final Conference will take place on the 26th of October between 09:00 – 18:00 at “The Square Brussels Centre” (rue Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels) in Brussels. It will be a combined event with the ST4RT project.
This event will be the opportunity to present the results achieved in both projects and to discuss how these results will […]
GOF4R survey
Within the GOF4R project, we have launched a short survey regarding data access and IF (Interoperability Framework) governance structure.
Innotrans
EPF’s autumn General Meeting, which was held in Berlin, coincided with the rail sector’s major biennial trade event, Innotrans. EPF representatives held meetings with key players, including Josef Doppelbauer, the Executive Director of the European Railway Agency, and senior representatives of major rolling stock manufacturers. These provided an opportunity to press the case for manufacturers to pay greater attention […]
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