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On 19-20 April 2001, the launch meeting of the Citizens’ Network
Benchmarking Initiative took place in Brussels. The meeting was aimed primarily
at bringing together all the participants in the project – some of them for
the first time at the European level – and give each and every local authority
representative the opportunity to meet colleagues from other countries and
discuss common topics of interest.
From a total of over 70 delegates, the event was attended by more than 50
officials from cities and regions taking part in the initiative. Representatives
from relevant international organisations and associations such as UITP, Polis,
Car Free Cities, and EMTA were also present. Furthermore, invited experts from
different horizons provided input to discussions.
The meeting started off by an informal presentation of the delegates present.
Paul Hodson, European Commission DG TREN, explained the policy context and aims
of the Citizens’ Network Benchmarking Initiative and highlighted the results
that had been achieved during the pilot project. Yves Mathieu and Henry Britton, from the Project Management Office (PMO),
presented the work programme and activities for the year ahead through examples
of the meetings that would take place and the publications that would be
produced. They also described the support that localities would receive from the
PMO and the commitments need by the participants to successfully achieve the
objectives of the project. Max Bohnet, PMO, also presented a series of first results for the common
indicators.
The rest of the two-day event was structured around working group sessions. the
discuss current activities and identify areas of interest for comparing the
performance of their local and regional transport systems. As a result of the
discussion process, six working groups were established focusing on topics such
as:
- organisational and contractual issues;
- accessibility and users’ needs;
- intermodality and integration;
- public transport attractiveness, and;
- citizens’ perceptions.
Download:
Programme
[EN] [FR]
[DE]
(MS Word, 31-42 kb)
Checklist
for working groups [EN] [FR]
[DE]
(MS Word 139-231 kb)
Minutes EN
Presentation on
activities [EN] (MS PowerPoint, 206 kb) - Presentation
on Common Indicators [EN] (MS PowerPoint, 1307 kb) - Participant’s
feedback (MS Word, 59 kb)
Page last updated 04/11/01.
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