Removing Barriers to Public Transport Fare Integration in Poland : Key Directions of Change
The need for more sustainable and integrative planning processes as a way of dealing with the complexity of urban mobility has been widely recognized. Within the European Union (EU) there has been an enhanced focus on urban mobility solutions where...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26584389/removing-barriers-public-transport-fare-intergration-poland-key-directions-change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24929 |
| Summary: | The need for more sustainable and
integrative planning processes as a way of dealing with the
complexity of urban mobility has been widely recognized.
Within the European Union (EU) there has been an enhanced
focus on urban mobility solutions where local authorities
move away from past ‘silo approaches’ and develop approaches
that can stimulate a shift towards cleaner and more
sustainable transport modes, in line with the EU’s 2013
Urban Mobility Package and Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans
(SUMPs).As people choose to move away from cities to the
periphery or to neighboring municipalities, it becomes
critical that the organization of urban transport services,
including commuter rail, is coordinated within functional
urban areas based on travel-to-work patterns and not be
limited to a city’s administrative area.International
experience suggests that public transport planners must
recognize two integration dimensions: (a) integration among
all modes and routes comprising the multi-modal public
transport network, (b) integration of the public transport
offer within a functional urban area, such that the public
transport offer matches the mobility requirements of
passengers. Successful integration in both dimensions will
provide a more customer-friendly experience and make public
transport more efficient and cost-effective.The objective of
this Report is to assess barriers to fare integration and
impediments to integrated service planning. More
specifically, it aims to: analyze the current legal
framework, review current fare discount policy and public
financing of such discounts, identify legal obstacles to
fare integration; present examples of European best practice
in the area of public transport integration; and provide
recommendations to remove barriers to fare and ticketing
integration.The World Bank identified six key
recommendations aimed at incentivizing public transport
integration: i) Introducing uniform statutory fare discount
system. ii) Reforming the system for financing statutory
fare discounts. iii) Removing barriers to cooperation among
different levels of self-government. iv) Strengthening local
authorities responsible for transport and creating open
integration platforms. v) Protecting PSO Operators from
creaming skimming. vi)Promote fare integration. Changing the
status quo will require significant changes to the legal
environment for public transport aimed at removing barriers
to integration. |
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