A Small Town with Big Mobility Challenges
Best‑practice description
Vallirana (near Barcelona) suffered from infrequent public‑transport services, leaving residents heavily reliant on cars. Shotl redesigned suburban mobility by combining...
Financial sustainability & Funding
Resources
21 Nov 2025
18 Nov 2025
Audit and Planning of Lisbon’s Cycling Network
Best‑practice description
Lisbon’s cycling network, launched in 2017, has expanded rapidly but has suffered from uneven maintenance and fragmented implementation. To ensure continuity and effec...
03 Jul 2026
CE4CE Circular Economy Best Practices – Public Transport Knowledge Hub
Tool objective
The CE4CE (Circularity for Public Transport) knowledge platform provides curated best‑practice examples of circular‑economy methods and innovative solutions within public‑t...
10 Dec 2025
Fare‑Free Public Transport – Tallinn, Estonia
Case‑study description
In January 2013 Tallinn became the first European capital to introduce free public transport for all residents, following a 2012 referendum in which 75 % of voters...
07 Aug 2024
Improving public transport in the Glasgow City Region
This report assesses the current performance of the public transport network in and around Glasgow, what improvements could be made and how many more people these could connect to the transport networ...
10 Jul 2024
Innovative Funding Solutions for Public Transport: Survey Results
An increase during the last decade in demand for transportation services, in terms of ridership, coverage and quality expectations, has caused a subsequent increase in operation costs. Traditionally,...
07 Jul 2026
Keeping it Fare: How to Make Public Transport Fares Affordable
This policy brief takes on one of the most pressing challenges facing the public transport sector today: how to ensure services remain financially sustainable while keeping fares accessible and afford...
10 Dec 2025
Micro‑Incentives for Sustainable Mobility
R&I activity description
Factual Consulting conducted two large‑scale stated‑preference surveys between September 2022 and July 2024 to quantify how targeted micro‑incentives can mo...
06 Aug 2024
On the road to a concept for Bus Rapid Transit
This publication aims to serve as a baseline describing the state-of-the-art of (E)Bus Rapid Transit systems around the world, creating a benchmark for the eBRT2030 project. The report examines th...
19 May 2025
Public service obligations for European public transport
Public transportation is a service that is offered on a market, meaning that there is a supply, a demand, and a cost to utilise the service, even if that cost is little or subsidised. Different approa...