Employers and unions make joint plan to increase women’s transport employment
The International Public Transport Association and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) this week signed a landmark agreement with the aim of strengthening women’s employment in urban public transport. In the presence of Isabelle Durant, Vice President of the European Parliament, UITP and ETF signed a series of joint recommendations. Women are particularly under-represented in leadership and technical positions,. At present women represent on average about 17.5%...
Read MoreInvestment in safe clean transport needed to reduce road crash deaths, says World Bank
A new report from the World Bank states there is a “a strong financial case for increasing investments in safe and clean road transport”. Transport for Health, published jointly with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, shows that deaths caused by motorised road transport globally now exceed those from HIV, TB or malaria, with crashes accounting for more than 90 per cent of them. In addition, injuries and illness are undermining economic...
Read MoreNew global agreement to promote good jobs in public transport
The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) have agreed to work together to promote the development and expansion of public transport. The organisations represent global employers and workers in public transport respectively, and share the view that public transport is “a motor for sustainable growth and the creation of green jobs, as well as environmental protection in reducing congestion and pollution”. They...
Read MoreFares up, passenger numbers down: the sorry trends of British buses
Britain’s Department for Transport published the annual bus statistics for England yesterday — and they tell a sorry tale of fares rising above inflation and falling passenger numbers. Just when the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is issuing its starkest warnings yet, the signs in Britain are that the people who need public transport most are being priced out, while motorists are given insufficient incentive to get out of their cars. The statistics show that...
Read MoreRoad deaths are a global epidemic. Quality Public Transport is one of the cures.
Quality public transport systems and services are vital not only to make cities of the future more liveable and sustainable, and to enable the poorest as well as the richest citizens to access the jobs, markets and services they need. There is growing awareness that quality public transport is also literally a matter of life and death. As an article published today in The Guardian reminds us, 1.2 million people die and up to 50 million are injured in traffic accidents annually, nearly half...
Read MoreNew drive for quality 28 years after English bus deregulation
www.nationalrail.co.ukTyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority (ITA) is planning to hold the private operators that run bus services in and around the English city of Newcastle to higher standards as set out in proposed quality contracts. It is the first initiative of its kind in Britain since local bus services became one of the first examples of privatisation and deregulation introduced by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1985. But the private bus companies are bitterly opposed,...
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