Doubling public transport’s market share worldwide by 2025: UITP

2200 delegates attended the Congress and 6400 public transport decision-makers visited the Mobility and City exhibition that featured products and innovations from 350 companies from 40 countries.
The UITP presented its strategic vision for the sector at the conference, entitled ‘public transport: the smart green solution’.
The strategy encourages all the mobility decision-makers to ‘set their ambitions’ for their urban centres and to ‘pick their solutions’ in order to empower mobility.
UITP’s outgoing president Roberto Cavalieri and UITP’s secretary general Hans Rat said at the opening ceremony that UITP has also set the ambitious target of doubling the market share of public transport worldwide by 2025.
“This objective is not out of reach but it requests a full engagement of all the actors including national, regional and local authorities, operators, industry and investors," Cavalieri and Rat said.
“[A] number of countries and cities around the world have already set themselves such ambitious targets and they are delivering on a daily basis, customer-driven, high quality services."
UITP has set five strategic axes of action in order to double public transport by 2025:
.Deliver lifestyle services so that public transport becomes the mode of choice for citizens
.Develop visionary integrated urban policies
.Create a new business culture for the sector
.Secure stable funding and investment schemes
.Do not hesitate to use demand management measures
The keynote speaker at the opening ceremony, French sociologist Bruno Marzaloff said that cities all around the world are “urging for change”.
“A change of focus is required to maintain people’s right to move while giving a priority to intelligent, responsible, sustainable and global mobilities,” he said.
Marzaloff went on to emphasise the “profound impact” that technological innovation has on mobility patterns.
‘We are getting into a new era of multimodality where users have the opportunity to decide between different modes and where cars are far from being the first option,” he said.
UITP is the international organisation for public transport authorities and operators, policy decision-makers, scientific institutes and the public transport supply and service industry.
The 59th UITP World Congress and Exhibition will be held in Dubai in April 2011.


For more information on the UITP visit: www.uitp.org