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Submit your paper for UITP Dubai 2011 Congress
Boosting public transport: Action!
The MENA region will host UITP World Congress and Exhibition for the first time since UITP was created in 1885! Don’t miss this opportunity to put your name on the agenda of the largest public transport event worldwide.
The Dubai Congress will review the priorities identified in UITP's ambitious strategy ‘Public transport: the smart green solution' aiming at doubling the market share of public transport worldwide by 2025. The 2011 Congress will be the first important milestone for UITP to take a halt and consider what has been achieved and what is still to do on the way to its vision.
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New working topics for MENA Bus Group
After the successful launch of the “UITP Tender Structure” the MENA Bus group met in Dubai, on 1st February. The meeting involved bus manufacturers as well as public transport authorities and operators from MENA. The selected working topics were full service contract including bus provision and maintenance, CNG buses, and Road Safety. Experience from Tehran, Porto and Brussels on the working topics were shared with the participants. The group will search all relevant CNG documents within the UITP library and disseminate to all members for enhancing knowledge and understanding. The survey report on transport safety once duly filled by the members will be analysed and results will be included as topic and a full presentation. Next meeting will take place in France at the occasion of the Bus conference (see hereafter)
Contact: Mohamed Mezghani
Bus Conference and Study tour in France, June 2010
With the freshly presented public transport sector strategy (in Vienna 2009) UITP sets the ambition to double public transport’s market share by 2025. That buses have a role to play is obvious but the central question in the conference will be: how can green buses attract more passengers? How can the economic benefits of non car use and the environmental issues involved be combined with the provision of quality public transport? Are green buses pushing or pulling car drivers and non users onto the public transport network?
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Special rates for MENA members and groups of minimum 3 participants.
Contact: Anju Gomes
Study tour to Japan on regional railways, April 2010
You have the opportunity to join the 1st Study Tour organized by UITP Regional & Suburban Railways Division along with its 5th Assembly from the 12th to 16th of April 2010.
The theme of the study tour is Ways to increase revenues of regional railways. You will have great opportunity to see, meet, learn, discuss, compare and broaden your professional horizon in the railways field.
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2nd MENA Congress and Showcase: Turning ideas into reality
AFTER its first edition in Dubai, the UITP Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Congress & Showcase has become a key event for public transport professionals and experts working in and for the MENA countries.
The second edition was hosted by Mowasalat in Doha, Qatar on 25-27 October 2009 with the theme ‘Public transport in the MENA region: Turning ideas into reality’. At the opening ceremony, Jassim al Sulaiti, Mowasalat Chairman, and Abdulaziz Al Ohaly, Chairman of UITP MENA Division and Deputy Minister of Transport in Saudi Arabia welcomed around 300 delegates from more than 30 countries.
“The theme of our Congress and Showcase shows that after a period of diagnosis and analysis of the situation, MENA cities have moved to project design and many of them to implementation,” said Dr. Abdulaziz Al Ohaly.
In his keynote speech, Alain Flausch, UITP President, presented the Public Transport Strategy and emphasized the dynamism and ambition of the MENA region. “The MENA region is on the right track,” said Mr Flausch.
The event featured eight sessions, demonstrating the vigour of transport actors and authorities in the region and a showcase of 29 exhibitors representing diverse transports products and services. Alstom Transport was awarded the prize of the most innovative product for its APS ground-level power supply system.
All delegates and speakers appreciated very much this valuable opportunity for networking and knowledge sharing. Thank you to our host Mowasalat for the excellent organisation.
Contact: Mohamed Mezghani
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