Programme

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

 

Morning             Individual arrival of particpants in Budapest

 

13:00                 Welcome Lunch at Hotel Astoria

              Welcome by the Local Host

 
Course coordinator: Didier van de Velde

 

14:00                Official Opening

             Programme introduction and ice-breaking activity

             [Sarah Foulon, UITP, Brussels, BE]

 

15.00                Session 1. Presenting the options

  • PT actors: types of authorities, their role and competences
  • Options for the allocation of decision-making in public transport between various actors: Strategic –Tactical – Operational levels
  • Potential roles for competition, concepts of competitive tendering in public transport
  • Type of contracts, levels of risk and sharing of risks and responsibilities between operator and authority
  • Overview of organizational forms in local public transport: direct award, route tendering, network tendering, deregulation
  • Regulatory and institutional framework (The European legislation)

                        [Didier van de Velde, inno-V, Amsterdam NL]

                                (Including coffee break)

 

18:30               End of day 1

 

19:30               Welcome reception

 

 

 

Thursday, 26 April 2012

After this introduction: four sessions to present and discuss intensively each of the four main cases

Today: The base case and the modernised traditional case (direct award) versus the radical change (deregulation)

 

9:00                 Session 2. Direct awarding

  • Presentation of the essentials of the case, 10’ – course leader
  • Direct awarding in Innsbruck, 40’ – trainer
  • The transition path / Issues for further improvement/ Illustration of different implementation possibilities, 10’ – course leader
  • Plenary discussion, 30’ - All

                  [Gerhard Fritz, Innsbrucker Verkersbetriebe und Stubaitalbahn GmbH (IVB), AU]

 

10:30              Coffee break

 

11:00              Session 3. Deregulation

  • Presentation of the essentials of the case, 10’ – course leader
  • Deregulation in the UK – the experience of Go-Ahead, 40’ – trainer
  • The transition path / Issues for further improvement/ Illustration of different implementation possibilities, 10’ – course leader
  • Plenary discussion, 30’ - All

                       [Martin Dean, The Go-Ahead Group plc, London, UK]

 

12:30              Lunch at Hotel Astoria

 

13:30              Workshop

 

16:00              Coffee break

 

16:30              Eu affairs: Focus on regulation 1370/2007

                       [Thomas Avanzata, Avanzata Conseil, Brussels, BE]

 

                       Parallel session for non-EU participants : to be confirmed

                        (depends on number of registrations)

 

18:00              End of day 2

 

19:00              Dinner

 

 

 

Friday, 27 April 2012

Today: The main alternatives in competitive tendering: Route tendering versus network tendering: options, lessons learned and challenges

9:00                Session 4. The route tendering model

  • Presentation of the essentials of the case, 10’ – course leader
  • The route tendering model in Copenhagen, 40’ – trainer
  • The transition path / Issues for further improvement/ Illustration of different implementation possibilities, 10’ – course leader
  • Plenary discussion, 30’ - All

      [Susanne Taarnehøj, Movia Public Transport, Copenhagen, DK]  

 

10:30              Coffee break

 

11:00              Session 5. The network tendering model

  • Presentation of the essentials of the case, 10’ – course leader
  • The network tendering model in Lyon, 40’ – trainer
  • The transition path / Issues for further improvement/ Illustration of different implementation possibilities, 10’ – course leader
  • Plenary discussion, 30’ - All

     [Roseline Legrand, Sytral, Lyon, FR]

 

12:30              Lunch at Hotel Astoria

 

13.30              Workshop

                               (Including coffee break)

 

16:00              Conclusions, evaluations and wrap-up

 

17:00              End of the training programme

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