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SPUTNIC - Strategies for Public Transport in Cities

Introduction

SPUTNIC (Strategies for Public Transport in Cities) is a project funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme.

Problem

SPUTNIC (Strategies for Public Transport in Cities) will help Public Transport (PT) actors and decision makers to shape PT into an attractive and efficient mode of urban transport. The objectives of SPUTNIC are to:

Support key stakeholders in anticipating and preparing for emerging challenges in the field of urban mobility;
Provide an updated overview of state of the art knowledge and research results in the area of urban mobility and public transport;
Collect available best practices and assess their transferability to enable sector-internal learning from advanced experience;
Present specific guidelines and tools to benefit from best practices identified throughout European regions and cities;
Provide an opportunity for PT professionals to update their existing knowledge with latest research results and advanced practical solutions;
Offer a platform for discussion and exchange of experiences amongst PT professionals in Europe;
Disseminate widely the key project outputs amongst PT stakeholders both in EU and Candidate Countries.

Description

SPUTNIC is dedicated to challenges faced by local and regional public transport systems in transition. These challenges include the emergence of a competitive environment, changing institutional frameworks and increasingly scarce financial resources.

SPUTNIC seeks to help make public transport systems more attractive and efficient by providing:

support to stakeholders to anticipate and prepare for emerging challenges;
an overview of state-of-the-art knowledge and research; and
specific guidelines and practical tools.

The project activities fall into four priority areas:

Market organisation,
Customer relations,
Corporate management,
Equipment and operational aspects.

Each priority area is supported by a working group of public transport professionals.

EU involvement

SPUTNIC is a project funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme.

Contact info

Sputnic Project - International Association of Public Transport (UITP)
Rue Sainte-Marie 6
1080 Bruxelles
Sebastian Emig (Project Manager), tel. +32 2 788 01 16

Project start date

//2006

Links

Click here to visit the Sputnic website Click here to download the Sputnic project flyer Click here to download several products from the Sputnic website Click here to read Sputnic state-of-the-art report

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Transport and infrastructure

Keywords

Public transport