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What is Smart Move?
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/Who are IRU?
/Founded in Geneva in 1948
/4 Regional Offices
/170 Member Associations – 74 countries
/One of the 10 largest NGOs globally
/TIR system - $100m per day
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Smart Move today – 105 partners worldwide
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What are the benefits of ‘doubling’ in the EU?
1500 less road fatalities per year
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What are the benefits of ‘doubling’ in the EU?
40 – 50 million tonnes less CO2
per year
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What are the benefits of ‘doubling’ in the EU?
10 -12 % less
car traffic
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What are the benefits of ‘doubling’ in the EU?
3 million green, sustainable jobs at lowest cost to society
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Intercity coach lines – the case of Germany
Market opening on 1 January 2013
Results; January-November):
125% increase in the number of lines (86 => 194) 40 more waiting for approval in German MoT
Market boom, but lack of terminal infrastructures
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Coach tourism– the case of Southport (UK)
1995 2000 2005 20080
500100015002000250030003500400045005000
number visiting coaches
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Smart Move – from campaigning to making
transport policy proposals
Creation (2012) of the first of its kind EU public-private High Level Group (HLG) to work out recommendations for policy and decision makers and industry on how to achieve the Smart Move objective of doubling the use of collective passenger transport in the EU by 2025
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EU Smart Move HLG - topics
• Urban transport and taxis
• Intercity scheduled bus/coach lines
• Group tourism by coach
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EU Smart Move HLG – analytical framework
• Users needs• Legislative and administrative frameworks• Fiscal matters and charging• Infrastructure and seamless intermodality• Easy access to services through better information and new technologies• Safety and environment• City-related aspects• International dimension• Innovation and best practices
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Results of the EU HLG
1. Recognise buses, coaches & taxis as the most dynamic part of the collective transport chain
2. Establish the objective of ‘doubling’ as a formal EU policy and business objective
3. 16 HLG recommendations proposed
4. Creation of a permanent European Citizens Mobility Forum
=> European Action Programme 2015-2025 on doubling
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The private industry proposals to UN
Establish at UN level - as a global UN objective - the ambitious and yet realistic objective of doubling the use of collective passenger transport by 2030
Create a UN High Level Group (HLG) of key public and private stakeholders to work out a proposal for a UN framework on how to achieve the objective of “doubling”
Create, as a follow up, similar HLGs at regional and/or national level to work out specific regional/national plans
Involve actively private industry and customers into this process
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The IRU’s plan
Establish public private High Level Groups in most world regions
Work out dedicated regional “road maps” on how to achieve the Smart Move objectives
Ensure a follow up on the implementation of the regional road maps
For the Middle East and the region – HLG to be launched in 2014 => work to be finalised in 2015
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Middle East and region Smart Move HLG - Objective
Establish a representative public-private High Level Group (HLG) of road transport professionals, civil servants and experts from the countries in the region, with the objective to work out a vision, as well as policy and business recommendations, and a short-, medium-, and long-term Action Plan on removing the barriers and substantially facilitating national and international bus and coach transport (both regular lines and tourist services)
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Middle East and region Smart Move HLG -
Composition
Representatives of countries’ transport and tourism authorities, interested international organisations/institutions active in the region, bus and coach trade associations and their member operators, researchers, and possibly bus and coach manufacturers. It shall consist of maximum 15 members from as many as possible countries.
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Middle East and region Smart Move HLG -
Coordination
The IRU shall assume the function of Secretariat and facilitate the functioning of the HLG, including the provision of required logistical support for documentary exchange and meeting facilities (almost exclusively by e-mail, Internet).
Physical meetings only to start and conclude
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Middle East and region Smart Move HLG –
Deliverables (12 months)
A vision on the role and place of collective passenger transport by buses and coaches in the region
Policy and business recommendations (short-, medium, and long-term) on how to facilitate national and international bus and coach transport within the region and with its neighbouring countries, with the objective of increasing its use substantially (double?) by 2030.
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/What is Smart Move?
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/Smart Move video
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doubling theuse of collectivepassengertransport bybus and coach
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