The 1st Technical meeting and Steering Committee meeting of the OPTI-UP project took place in Italy and was organized by the Agency for Mobility and Local Public Transport of Modena.
Data-based organization of the transport in the Emilia Romagna Region
At the one-and-a-half-day event, on 15-16 October 2024, the Central European partnership of the project reviewed the comprehensive analysis of local, typically bus public transport (characteristics of public transport networks, number of vehicles, changes in the number of passengers, financial data and sustainability of the operation, local overview of organizations involved in mobility planning and their competences, etc.).
The so called pilot actions were also overviewed. These are concrete actions that all cities participating in the project must implement in order to make their local public transport more sustainable and accessible. The pilot actions usually test the complaince of the public transport solutions proposed in the project in terms of modifying an existing local public transport line or adding a new line to the timetable.
The Modena program ended with a site visit organised by the Modena Mobility and Local Public Transport Agency. In connection with this, we learned about the specifies of the public transport network in Modena, the planning of the line network and of the services provided, as well as the public procurement of the current bus service concession.
To Be Continued…
The next transnational meeting of the OPTI-UP project will take place in Paks in April 2025.
Many thanks to the kind hospitality of the aMO team.