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EMTA internal affairs activity report

General Meeting Vienna

10 October 2013 Working session

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EMTA Internal Affairs

•Approval of Copenhagen Record of Decisions

•Financial matters and accounting: -2nd revised budget 2013-1st draft budget proposal 2014 (treasurer)-Renewal of contract for external auditor ?

•Membership issues- closing down of Valencia and Murcia•No new members so far. Ideas to engage new members.

• European level

• Membership

• Surveys

• Working groups

•Financial Affairs

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Progress Report at European LevelDG-MOVE

Bid on REVOLVE (CENTRO-CRTM and 4 members) delivered to EU in May; EMTA is Network partner awaiting decision of auditors.

ITS: public consultation by EC to investigate ideas to overcome challenges for introduction of Multimodal journey planner in EU (call to complete query before October 25)

CEF/TEN-T: new program 2014-2020 launched.

Enabling Regulation: EC-proposal to Council for changing block exemption in article 9 PSO-Regulation 1370/2007 Council withdrawn. Successful action (so far).

Fourth Railway Package: modifications of PSO- Regulation COM 1370/2007 objected in position (June 6) views of the rapporteur mr Grosch to be discussed in round table (1)

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developments

• EU Legal issues

• 2011

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EMTA deliverables

Directory 2012/2013Completed and ready to circulate.

Barometer 2012First update on results coming up (Laura Delgado)

Brief on Metropolisation: Published July 2013: courtesy to Lorenza Tomasoni

EMTA Summer Newsletter #48: issued end of AugustIncluding a calendar for upcoming events.

Call for articles for EMTA newsletter Autumn/Winter 2013

• European level

• Membership

• Surveys

• Working groups

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• Publications

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NFC Working Group - Progress

EMTA Working group NFC ticketingMembers from FR, UK, ES, SE, NO, PL, FI

Progress since Copenhagen- WG focus broadened in order to include:

• Contactless smartcards

• Development of Apps

• Non-payment applications that could help to promote NFC and to gain experience with the technology

• European level

• Membership

• Surveys

• Working groups

• What is NFC?

• Experience so far

• Conclusions

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NFC Working Group – Planned output

WG Report first version end of 2013,

final review January 2014

To be a reference document for PT sector

Containing:

• Discussion of NFC use case for PT

• Description of the technology in PT context

• Existing pilot and experiences

• Key considerations for decision making

• European level

• Membership

• Surveys

• Working groups

• What is NFC?

• Experience so far

• Conclusions

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Progress Report

Barometer Working Group 2013 (relaunch)

Development of an open data platform for all members

Initiative UITP/OAC to work together on data collection with EMTA? Proposal is still awaited….

Attempt to gain input from DG-MOVE on sustainable transport and environmental impact assessment (EU-Scoreboard)

Laura reports later on this morning….

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• European level

• Working Groups

• Foreseen Activities 2011

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Progress Report (2)

Accessibility Working Group (AWG)No news so far

Working group on legal issues: Commission’s proposal PSO (Fourth Railway Packages):

comment drafted with expertise of Thomas Avanzata- Procurement Directive (recast)- Need for renew expertise and energy

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• European level

• Working Groups

• Foreseen Activities 2011

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Queries

- BKK Budapest: survey on geographical/geospatial info systems (GIS)

- VBB Berlin: Social media in PTA’s (report by Eike Arnold later on)

- ZTM Warsaw: free ticket for employees of OA’s (results coming up by Tamas Dombi)

- Politecnico di Torino (Technical University of Torino): benchmark survey Public Transport and Metropolitan Authorities

• Queries and questionnaires

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Progress ReportFSR proposalRenewed proposal on staff courses (training or workshops)from Torino (SG-comments and suggestions): 4 yearsprogramme, once a year 2-days training for staff and management;

Proposal (with regard to state of play)- take up preparation of a pilot (preferably with FSR) - check options for training methods of other organizations• UITP, • Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam;

to acquire proper level of knowledge, in a financially viable manner.

Start launch pilot: Autumn 2013 ?

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• Training options and initiatives

• Working Groups

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Building alliances

September 9: meeting of Sg EMTA and Maria Machancoses with UITP Sg (Alain Flausch), to explore options for strengthening stakeholders collaboration by:

improving services to our (shared) membershipexchange mutual observers to participate in public events and relevant workshops (on equal terms) co-signing of positions on topics of common interests (towards EU-institutions)actively share knowledge and resources.

Capturing an agreement in a MoU…

• Collaborate with peer stakeholders

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