Urban transport in central and eastern Europe
Policy handbook

Summary

Part 1- European experiences

Overview

Traffic and tranport - a European overview
Terence Bendixon 

Urban traffic in central Europe
Wojciech Suchorzewski

Parking management

Parking restraints in the centre of Prague in the past and at present
Jan Trešl

Experience with parking management in Vienna
Harald Semela

Managing private non-residential parking
Colin Chick, Reedik Vörno 

Parking management in Bucharest
Adrian Stoica

Public transport

Public transport - transferablility and cooperation Restructuring the municipal bus transport service in Kalisz
Michal Jan Ozmin.....

"StadtRegionalBahn" in Ljubljana - transferability of the Karlsruhe model
Axel Kühn

Poznan's Fast Tram
Ryszard Olszewski and Jerzy Piotrowski

Public transport in Riga
Rudite Revelina 

Obtaining investment for public transport

Financing public transport rehabilitation in Budapest
Lásló A. Gulyás

Leasing as a financing model for public transport
Bernd-Michael Schröder

The European Union Joint Venture Programme (JOP) for public-private partnership
Jürgen Lohmüller

From centralised planning to market orientation: the Kraków experience
Jan Friedberg

Public transport in Slovenia
Tomaz Souvan

Walking and bicycling - a new approach to road safety

Pedestrianisation in Kraków's city centre
Andrzej Rudnicki 

Experience with bicycling infrastructure in Copenhagen
Niels Jensen

Gloucester - A new approach to road safety ?
Paul Bellotti 

Part 2 - Facts from central and eastern European cities

Overview

Urban structure
Population
Historic centres and urban density
Car ownership
Modal split
Investment in road and public transport
Summary

Parking management
Introducing parking management to city centres
Organisational structure
Numbers of on- and off-street parking spaces
Operating hours and charging stuctures for on-street parking
Enforcement
Revenue gained from parking charges
Summary

Public transport
Public transport networks
Current trends in the organisational structure of PT
Conditions of rolling stock
Priorities for investmetn in rolling stock
Priorities for investment in technical infrastructure
Trends in travel behaviour
Cost coverage from fare collection
Total revenue from fare collection
Summary

Road safety - walking and bicycling
Walking - road casualties
Bicycling - road casulties
Drivers raising awareness of non-motorised road users
Child casulties in road accidents
Reduction in road casualties by national legislation
Summary

Part 3 - Conclusions: Priorities for managing urban transport in central and eastern Europe

Improving parking management
Discussing major issues for further steps
Improving enforcement
Regulation of on and off-street parking management
Rationalising the decision making process
Organising operational issues
Renewing, re-structuring and financing public transport
Technical issues
Operational aspects
Financing investment for public transport
Road Safety - safer travel for pedestrians
Establishing new policies for better road safety
Making routes safer for pedestrians and cyclists
Dealing with both road safety and road rehabilitation
Sustaining urban travel patterns

Appendix

List of Participants