21 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2014/2244(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas most travellers continue to prefer individual transport, and whereas, given that creating EU-wide journey planners will not in itself be enough to achieve better integration of the various modes of transport, each of these transport modes needs to become more efficient and user friendly, and that process will be significantly assisted by, inter alia, the adoption of the Fourth Railway Package and the Regulation on air passengers’ rights, the implementation of the TEN-T priority projects, and the single European sky initiative;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas global competitors are making investments in rail transport a basic part of their strategies since 2014 while Europe is behind;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that EU-wide integrated multimodal travel information, planning and ticketing services provide European businesses, especially SMEs and start- ups, with opportunities for innovation and hence constitute a major contribution to a globally competitive European Single Market and the completion of a Single European Transport Area;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that EU-wide multimodal travel information, journey planning and ticketing services are part of the answer to major challenges in the European transport sector, including those of sustainability, multimodality, efficiency and, economic viability, the creation of quality jobs and labour mobility, and are therefore equally beneficial to societyindividuals, social cohesion, the economy, the environment and the tourist industr, tourism and the European identity;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that EU-wide personal mobility is a prerequisite for the exercise of basic freedoms and that people should therefore be able to access comprehensive information about multimodal and cross- border transport links for seamless door-to- door travel and to make the necessary reservations and payments online; this being accessible to all, with special concern for people with disabilities, reduced mobility or who are particularly vulnerable;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Sees the provision of comprehensive, easily accessible and reliable information for travellers as the first major step towards integrateproviding multimodal information, travel planning and ticketing services, and emphasises that, in order to ensure that measures to that end are fair, it is of prime importance that they be accompanied by the internalisation of external costs for all modes of transport;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that there is a basic need to define the ambition for the mid-term future and thus to clarify whether ´´integrated ticket´´ means having one ticket for one trip or rather the interoperability of systems and tickets;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes efforts in both the public and private sectors to introduce journey planners but notes that many such services cover only specific regions or countries and that few are multimodal; calls therefore - as a first step - for all the stakeholders and regulators to build on existing synergies and to focus more closely on providing multimodal, cross- border journey planners with tailored ticketing arrangements linking long- distance and local transport - including the blind mile - e.g. by upgrading the different systems to develop their interoperability and enable communication between them; calls on the Commission to use the TEN-T corridors as a pilot project for the identification of passenger flows and the potential for multimodal information, travel planning and ticketing services;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the European Commission to develop a repository of good practices for locally, regionally or nationally run projects, to serve as a basis for implementation of the latter across the EU;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, with regard to ticketing services, to confine itself to creating amultimodal information, planning and ticketing services, to create a comprehensive framework that supports and facilitates the efforts being made by the stakeholders, the competent authorities and the agreements they have already concluded; urges the Commission to consider the necessary distinction between public and commercial operators and stresses the crucial role the first can play in advancing multimodal information, planning and ticketing services; hence asks the Commission to focus on public transport service providers in its regulatory approach;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – introductory part
Paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. Highlights the active role of local and regional authorities with regard to the first/last mile of journeys, and therefore calls on the Member Statescompetent authorites in the Member States which have not yet worked on this line
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
– to introduce, by 2020 at the latest, national updated timetable information systems linking the timetables for regional and local urban public transport operated by both private and publicly owned companies, and to continue updateing such systems on a regular basis,
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
– to make provision by 2024 at the latest for the national timetable information systems, with real-time information on local public transport operators’ timetables, to be networkedmade accessible to operators and consumers on a cross-border basis;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 6 – indent 3 a (new)
– to invest and to stimulate investment in the upgrading of different ticketing systems so as to improve the interoperability of those systems, also across borders;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Shares the Commission’s view that fair and equal access for service providersinformation, travel planning and ticketing service providers - including SMEs and start-ups - to comprehensive, multimodal real-time transport and travel data is a prerequisite for EU-wide multimodal travel information, planning and ticketing services, and; hence calls on the Commission to circulate a proposal requiring all providers to make available, on fair and equal terms, all the information needed for putting in place more comprehensive services and therebyelaborate a framework proposal for the fair, equal and transparent provision by providers of public transport services of all the information needed for making comprehensive multimodal information, travel planning and ticketing services accessible to consumers and transport operators across Europe. This will enablinge travellers to choose between the most sustainable, best- value or fastest connections, without prejudice to the economic interests of the operators involved;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the European Commission to draw up a proposal for harmonised EU- wide criteria on technological developments and systems and technical media for performing validations and cancellations; in view of the significant investment entailed in both the development and modification of these systems and media, joint analysis of said systems and media by stakeholders and the competent authorities would be essential; protection of the intellectual property rights for said developments has to be taken into account;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises that, in line with the EU´s competition policy, it is incumbent on the Commission to identify and counter any potential danger of multimodal information and ticketing providers’ monopolising information;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges that a platform be established, involving all the stakeholders and local, regional and national competent authorities, to develop feasible arrangements inter alia for the phased introduction of EU-wide interoperable electronic ticketing systems and for addressing the problems of distributing ticket-sales income and of cost-sharing in the event of disputes between contracted parties;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Emphasises the crucial importance, in terms of social mobility, of transport being accessible, and calls for more attention to be paid tothe inclusion of the needs of people with disabilities or limited mobility or who are particularly vulnerable in relation to access to information before and during journeys;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the continuation of support for stakeholders for innovative problem solving, and therefore for the relevant sources of EU financing, e.g. the Shift2Rail Innovation Programme 4 under the Horizon 2020 programme and the Connecting Europe facility, to be maintained and developed; urges the European Investment Bank to make appropriate use of the European Fund for Strategic Investment in this regard;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Points out that most people in the EU live in conurbations and, with a view to reducing congestion in such areas, calls for the introduction of incentives tounderground railway services, tram, train, bus and river transport services to be developed in a coherent manner which encourages the use of sustainable modes of transport, with the inclusion in travel information and journey-planning services of information about car sharing, park-and- ride systems, bike hire schemes, cycles lanes and footpaths;