Capital of Free Public Transport
Summer school organized by Tallinn City government
Tallinn, August 22-24, 2013
Presentation materials:
- Edgar Savisaar, Mayor of Tallinn
Opening words (.doc)
- Siim Kallas, EC Transport Commissioner
Public transport challenges in Europe (.doc) - Antoine Di Ciaccio, Aubagne and Etoile Urban Community Area (FR)
Fraternité, Egalité, Gratuité (.doc)
- Shi Tao, Vice General Manager of Chengdu Bus Group (CN)
The Measures&Experience of Implementing Free Public Transport in Chengdu (.doc)
- Georg Sootla, Tallinn University
Developing policy of social space (.doc)
- Marc Verachtert, Hasselt (BE)
16-year long FPT experience and its enforced stop (.ppt)
- Waldemar Socha, Mayor of Żory (PL)
Coming soon – the biggest free public transport city in Poland (.doc) - Robert Perkowski, Mayor of Ząbki (PL)
Free bus for residents brings new taxpayers (.pdf)
- Oded Cats, Swedish Institute of Technology, KTH (SE)
Evaluating the impacts of zero-fare public transport: Findings from the first three months of policy implementation (.pdf)
The coverage of summer school by Tallinn TV:
http://www.tallinnatv.eu/index.php?id=8999 (includes interviews with Edgar Savisaar, Siim Kallas, Robert Perkowski and Taavi Aas)
http://www.tallinnatv.eu/index.php?id=9014 (interviews with Robert Stüssi, Anna Ujma, Ian Davey, Lin Yan)
http://www.tallinnatv.eu/index.php?id=9001 (Roger Fowler and Allan Alaküla in TV-magazine from 01:58 to 21:07)