The Dutch Public Transport Advisory committee has given advice for a more client oriented form of collective transport in rural areas in order to maintain the long term supply of public transport services in these areas. In order to achieve this from the perspective of transport expertise, finance and organisation, traditional public transport needs to be integrated with several types of target group transport.

Due to the reorganisation of collective passenger transport, the efficiency of certain systems is being investigated, in particular the services that currently function independently for various target groups. Establishing that efficiency gains are possible is fairly easy, although the actual realization isn’t: Various actors, not used to working together, will have to do so in order to achieve the intended efficiency gains as a whole.

A modal shift in favour of collective passenger transport will probably play an important role. Ideas will be presented at a later stage, in which the central issue will revolve around the stimulation necessary to encourage optimal use (from the perspective of People, Planet and Profit) of the available resources. In answer to the question on which types of incentives will work, both the actors (in particular: subsidy suppliers) as well as the receivers (Transport/taxi companies) will be emphatically involved. In regard to the term ‘optimal use’, not only the current situation will be considered, but also plausible scenarios or expected scenarios in the near future, taking into account changes in demography (increase in ageing population), technology (cleaner vehicles, in cars as well as public transport, different types of fuel), the economy (in particular: purchasing power) and prices (among others fuel prices).

The goal of this Transumo project is to develop instruments and devices so that during the transition of an existing transport system, tests can be made to achieve a new concept for Integrated Collective Passenger Transport (ICP), where the user is served by a tailor made combination of transport on demand and scheduled collective transport.

Integrated Collective passenger transport will offer the inhabitants of rural areas a better service of collective transport, removing the stigma of target group transport and will allow people in rural areas to live independently for longer. The use of energy for each transfer (average) will be reduced by ICP, reducing in turn the emissions per transfer (average). A positive effect will therefore also be achieved on road safety and on noise nuisance.

Participants
NEA, AGV, TU Delft, Province of Gelderland, KNV/Mobis, Transport companies (Synthus, Vijfstromenland, Arriva).

Projectmanager
NEA; Drs. P. Hilferink

For more information, please contact Transumo at info@transumo.nl, +31 79 3470950