Towards the Integrated Transport Systems

The Annual Meeting of UBC Commission on Transportation took place in Gdynia (Poland) on 29 September 2006. In the course of the meeting the Commission members reviewed recent initiatives such as transport questionnaire and redesigning the website, discussed future activities and the choice of the venue for next year's meeting.

Apart from organisational matters, the progress in the BUSTRIP Project in which the Commission participates as one of the core partners was presented as well. During the meeting there was also a presentation of SEBTrans-Link project - "Modern Ferry Terminal in the Eastern Port of Gdynia as an important link in the Transport Corridor North-South" which was an initiative of the Port of Gdynia Authority, the Office of the Marshal of Pomeranian Voivodship, the Voivod Office of Pomeranian Voivodship as well as Gdynia City Hall.

The meeting was combined with a seminar devoted to the question of transport system integration in the Baltic Europe as well as intelligent transport systems.

Speakers from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (Mr Ulrich Peters, Department of Railways/Public Trasnport, Ministry of Economy of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Region), Stockholm, Sweden (Mr Björn Dalborg, AB Stockholms Lokaltrafik, European Metropolitan Transport Authorities) and Tri-City, Poland (Mr Olgierd Wyszomirski and Mr Marcin Wolek, University of Gdansk) presented the experiences of their regions connected with public transport planning and the integration of transport systems. They discussed managing, operating and financing different modes of transport in the cities. Representatives of European Commission, DG TREN (Mr Keith Keen), Göteborg Traffic and Public Transport Authority (Mr Daniel Ulfheden) and University of Gdansk (Mr. Jacek Oskarbski) talked about the deployment, functioning and practical benefits of intelligent transport systems in EU.