Local public transport plays a crucial role for cities and different communities. For many people it is a good alternative to owning a car and thus flexible mobility. Comparing public transport to the motorized transport, it has much higher resource efficiency and is less damaging for the climate and the health. Regarding air quality, public transport is very vital since it helps reducing the emission of air pollutants by traffic.

In Europe, already today a large part of the public transport is driven by electricity and is thus locally emission-free. Trams, metros and city railways are responsible for more than half of all trips within the short-distance public transport. At the same time the higher exhaust standards of buses and green fuels like natural gas ensure that busses become less pollutant. Public means of transportation is undoubtedly an essential part of sustainable mobility.

To make public transport more attractive and invite more people to engage in this form of transportation, more public and political appreciation are needed along with the necessary financial resources.

On the one hand physical factors like availability and frequency are important so that the citizens’ expectations can be met by an appropriate network of routes, service frequencies and preferably shorter travel time .

Don’t forget that local public transport has to be easily accessible and easy to understand. Still today for many people public transport is not really an appealing alternative: deficient or missing information at stations, in vehicles or online; complicated ticket machines; badly accessible stations and few bus shelters. To promote public transport, all these “soft factors” are at least as important as hard factors like its physical availability and prices.

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