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      TRAINING PROGRAMME
    CONTRACTING FOR BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPORT


    AMSTERDAM, 23-24 MARCH 2009


    PROGRAMME

     

    Sunday 22 March 2009

       
       

      

    Arrival of participants in Amsterdam.
       
       

      

    Evening: Welcome reception at Albus Grand Hotel
       
     

    Monday 23 March 2009

       
       

      

    Course coordinator: Didier van de Velde
       
       

    09:00 

    Official Opening
     


    Programme introduction and ice-breaking activity

    Sarah Foulon, Training Programme Manager, UITP


       

    09:40 

    Session 1 Presenting the options
     


    Didier van de Velde, inno-V, The Netherlands

    Public transport 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)

    (including coffee break at 11:00 until 11:30)

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

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

       

    12:45 

    Lunch break
     

    Including visit of De Bazel (30')
     


       

    14:15 

    Session 2 Direct awarding
     

     


    Didier van de Velde, inno-V, The Netherlands

    Presentation of the essentials of the case, including the transition path (course leader), illustration of different implementation possibilities (course leader and case speakers) (40’)

    Lessons learned (case speakers) and Issues for further improvement (course leader and case speakers) (20’)

    Mini-workshops in sub-groups to discuss specifics of the case (30’)

    Christoph Schaaffkamp, KCW, Berlin, Germany


       

    15:45 

    Coffee break
       
       

    16:00 

    Session 3 Deregulation
     


    Didier van de Velde, inno-V, The Netherlands

    Presentation of the essentials of the case, including the transition path (course leader), illustration of different implementation possibilities (course leader and case speakers) (40’)

    Lessons learned (case speakers) and Issues for further improvement (course leader and case speakers) (20’)

    Mini-workshops in sub-groups to discuss specifics of the case (30’)

    British regional city


       

    17:30 

    Plenary discussion
       
       

    18:30 

    End of the session
       
       

    20:00 

    Dinner
       
     

    Tuesday 24 March 2009

       
       

      

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

    09:00 

    Session 4 The route tendering model
     

    Didier van de Velde, inno-V, The Netherlands

    Presentation of the essentials of the case, including the transition path (course leader), illustration of different implementation possibilities (course leader and case speakers) (40’)

    Lessons learned (case speakers) and Issues for further improvement (course leader and case speakers) (20’)

    Coffee break (30’)

    Mini-workshops in sub-groups to discuss specifics of the case (30’)

    Simon Thomas, Transport for London, UK


       

    10:30 

    Coffee break
     


       

    11:00 

    Focus topic: The new Public Service Obligations (PSO)
     

    Thomas Avanzata, Avanzata Conseil, Belgium


       

    12:15 

    Lunch break
       
       

    13:15 

    Session 5 The network tendering model
     

    Didier van de Velde, inno-V, The Netherlands

    Presentation of the essentials of the case, including the transition path (course leader), illustration of different implementation possibilities (course leader and case speakers) (40’)

    Lessons learned (case speakers) and Issues for further improvement (course leader and case speakers) (20’)

    Coffee break (30’)

    Mini-workshops in sub-groups to discuss specifics of the case (30’)

    Bas Bakker, Stadsregio Amsterdam, The Netherlands


       

    15:00 

    Coffee break
       
       

    15:30 

    Plenary discussion
       
       

    16:30 

    Conclusions & Evaluation of the training
       
       

    17:00 

    End of the programme