Public Transport: New Award to Recognise Outstanding Innovation
Submit your Application by the 26 March 2010
Application for the 2010 ITF-UITP “Outstanding Innovation in Public Transport Award” is closing soon! All public transport operators and authorities, and suppliers to public transport services are encouraged to submit their applications promoting their innovative public transport project or initiative by 26 March 2010.
The two leading international voices in the transport sector, the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), encourage public transport-related organisations to respond to the call to be acknowledged for their successful innovative approaches that improve public transport systems by making a claim for the 2010 ITF-UITP “Outstanding Innovation in Public Transport Award”.
“At the 2010 International Transport Forum in May, we will recognise efficient, high quality public transport operations and initiatives because they are a key element in sustainable urban travel and community prosperity,” said Jack Short, Secretary-General of the ITF.
“The ITF plays an important role to shape the future of transport. UITP is very pleased to be a 2010 Forum partner to acknowledge innovative projects or initiatives that improve or have improved the quality, sustainability, and inter-modality of public transport services, in order to achieve the objective of doubling public transport market shares worldwide by 2025”, said Hans Rat, Secretary General, UITP.
Awards will be considered for four categories of applicants:
1) public transport operators,
2) local and regional public transport authorities,
3) multi-regional authority consortiums, and
4) joint initiatives between public transport sector suppliers and operators/authorities.
The closing date for applications is 26 March 2010.
CONTACT:
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International Transport Forum
Rachael Mitchell
Tel + 33(0)1 45 24 97 93
Fax. + 33(0)1 45 24 13 22
rachael.mitchell@oecd.org
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UITP
Minna Melleri
Tel: +32 (0)2 66 13 196
Fax: +32 (0)2 6601072
minna.melleri@uitp.org
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About the International Transport Forum (ITF)
The International Transport Forum is a strategic think tank for the transport sector. Each year, it brings together over 50 Transport Ministers, along with leading decision-makers and thinkers from the private sector, civil society and research, to address transport issues of strategic importance. An intergovernmental organisation within the OECD, the Forum's goal is to shape the transport policy agenda, and ensure that it contributes to economic growth, environmental protection, social inclusion and the protection of human life and wellbeing. The 2010 International Transport Forum, to be held on 26-28 May in Leipzig, Germany, will focus on Transport and Innovation: Unleashing the Potential.
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