CAPRICE Project’s Final Conference

The CAPRICE Project’s final conference took place in Paris on Thursday 17th March 2011. This European-wide event was opened by Mr. Jean-Vincent PLACÉ, Vice President of the Ile-de-France Regional Council in Charge of Transport and Mobility, Vice President of STIF (Syndicat des Transports d’Ile-de-France) who welcomed all participants and shared his views on urban transport facing the challenges of sustainable mobility.

Then, Mr. Hans-Werner FRANZ, CAPRICE Lead Partner, Chief Executive Officer of Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB) and President of European Metropolitan Transport Authorities (EMTA), delivered a statement on CAPRICE from the authority’s point of view.

The European dimension of metropolitan public transport was discussed with:
Mr. Keir FITCH, Deputy Head of Cabinet of Mr. Siim KALLAS, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of transport
Mrs. Silvia-Adriana ŢICĂU, Member of the European Parliament, Vice President of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism (TRAN) Committee
Mr. Michael CRAMER, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism (TRAN) Committee

After that debate, Mrs. Erika FULGENZI, INTERREG IVC Project Officer, INTERREG IVC Joint Technical Secretariat, presented the INTERREG IVC programme’s state of play.

To finish the morning session, the presentation of CAPRICE Good Practice Guide was made by Mr. Juergen ROSS, CAPRICE Project Manager, VBB Head of Planning and Customer Information Department.

The afternoon was composed of 2 round tables.

The first round table aimed at thinking about ‘How to set up sustainable urban mobility?’

Professor Wojciech SUCHORZEWSKI from the Warsaw University of Technology was moderating:

Mr. Gražvydas JAKUBAUSKAS, Lithuania’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, Acting Head of Division, Development and Innovations Division

Mrs. Monique Van WORTEL, Clean Urban Transport Unit, European Commission / DG MOVE

Mr. Valentin ANTON, President of CODATU Romania

Mrs. Laurence DEBRINCAT, STIF Head of Studies & Surveys Department (Syndicat des transports d’Ile-de-France)

Mr. Mieczyslaw REKSNIS, Director of Road and Public Transportation Department, Warsaw City Hall

The second round table was moderated by Mr. Hans-Werner FRANZ on the topic‘How to organise and finance sustainable mobility?’

The following speakers were invited to deal with that issue:

Mrs. Sophie MOUGARD, General Director of STIF (Syndicat des Transports d’Ile-de-France), Vice President of European Metropolitan Transport Authorities (EMTA)

Mr. Ion DEDU, Executive Director – Transports, Roads and Traffic Planning, Department of Bucharest Municipality (PMB)

Mr. Alain MEYERE, Director of surveys, Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme d’Ile-de-France (IAURIF)

Last but not least, Mr. Jean-Paul HUCHON, President of the Ile-de-France Regional Council, President of STIF (Syndicat des Transports d’Ile-de-France) closed that European event and highlighted the CAPRICE achievements as well as the successful and fruitful cooperation work between partners.

source: http://www.caprice-project.info