Recommendations of the LINK Project : European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel

The key results of the European funded research activity LINK and a compilation and summary of the authors own views and comments and excerpts from general findings and deliverables of the project elaborated by the LINK project consortium and its expert pool are presented in this paper. The LINK project has created a European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel in order to enhance the combined use of different transport modes on one single journey with a focus on long-distance travel. The project is funded by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Program and finishes after 3 years in April 2010. Jacobs is a LINK project partner and responsible for the United Kingdom (UK) and the field of travel Information and ticketing. Intermodality has evolved into a major focus for European and national transport policies, especially within the last ten years. However, whereas intermodality in freight transport is highly promoted, long-distance passenger intermodality has so far received little attention. Trips over long distances may only have a small market share (e.g. 1,3 % in Germany) of total trips but actually account for about 20 % of all person-kms. The current status in passenger intermodality in Europe is very heterogeneous with for example advanced integrated ticketing and information solutions in some countries and little in others. European integration is at a very low level.

• Record URL:
  • https://aetransport.org/past-etc-papers/conference-papers-pre-2009/conference-papers-2010
• Corporate Authors:

  Association for European Transport (AET)

  1 Vernon Mews, Vernon Street, West Kensington
  London W14 0RL,    
• Authors:
  • Riley, Paul
  • Kumpostova, Alexandra
• Conference:
  • European Transport Conference, 2010
  • Location: Glasgow Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Date: 2010-10-11 to 2010-10-13
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Bibliography;
• Pagination: 16p
• Monograph Title: European Transport Conference, 2010 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Intermodal transportation; Multimodal transportation; Passenger transportation; Policy making; Ticketing; Transportation planning; Traveler information and communication systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Long distance travel
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01350430
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 25 2011 1:04PM