Forum

1st Florence Intermodal Forum. Urban Mobility Systems: Regulation Across Modes

07 December 2012

This is the first Forum on intermodality and we want to start out by focusing it on urban public transport. In the urban context, numerous modes of transport are active, namely buses, metros, trams, trains, and even taxis. Current regulation of public urban transport is scattered among various actors depending on transport modes and ownership.

The urban public transport landscape is thus characterized by overlapping and at times competing jurisdictions, different types of ownership and thus incentive mechanisms, as well the existence of various regulatory authorities, which may regulate access, tender public service obligations, grant licenses and others more.
Yet, urban public transport requires interconnection and overall system management, be they technical (e.g., standards), commercial (e.g., ticketing), operational (e.g., timetables), financial (e.g., transfer pricing), or political (e.g., subsidies).

This first Intermodal Forum seeks to identify and lay out the main regulatory challenges in intermodal urban public transport:

What are these challenges?
Who should be the problem owners in terms of policy-making (at which level?), ownership, and regulation?
And what role would regulation have to play exactly in order to address these challenges?

For more information and registration please contact FSR.transport@eui.eu