The five CAPRICE partners met during seven workshops held in 2009 and 2010 and dedicated to exchanging experiences. Each workshop highlighted a specific topic relating to one of the major issues for urban mobility: organisation and financing, contracting and tendering, implementation of clean vehicle fleets in public transport systems, integrated passenger information, tariff integration and revenue sharing, urban mobility plans and making public transport more accessible for mobility-impaired people.
During the workshops, every partner presented the problems to solve, the solutions that they had found, the improvement paths and the financial means required. The partners put forward proposals for establishing best practices and recommendations based on their work. The aim was also to develop common strategies and to suggest instruments that enable integrated and sustainable management of public transport systems in metropolitan areas based on those best practices.
These exchanges of experience were accompanied by a transfer of knowledge enabling the practical implementation of the best practices that had been identified. For instance, Berlin and Warsaw worked on launching a common passenger information website on the Internet. Paris and Berlin held specific meetings on the issue of passenger information. Finally, a working meeting was held with all the partners, in order to help draft the agreement between the Municipality of Bucharest and the operator responsible for running the bus network.
In total, 30 good practices were identified during the CAPRICE project. The partners chose the best practices, which answer major questions by suggesting effective solutions for developing more integrated public transport systems that enable genuine sustainable mobility. These good practices are assembled in the CAPRICE Good Practice Guide, which aims to both make a contribution to the European Commission’s urban mobility action plan and to be a genuine tool for the decision-makers in charge of public transport systems. The CAPRICE partners will remain involved in order to enable the proper dissemination of these practices and to promote their application in major metropolitan areas.
source: http://www.caprice-project.info