PROJECTS<\/p>\n
\nIn airline and railway industry there was an evolution to common booking engines in the early 70th. Actual market segmentation is made by using different sales channels, i.e. internet booking engines. Vision of the consortium is to \u201ccopy\u201d the business model of Amadeus (Start), Sabre for coach business.\u00a0
\nParallel to airline booking systems the hub model is most interesting for coach travel. With CoachNet the consortium wants to build up a coach network by establishing transparency in connections, fares and other relevant information.\u00a0
\nThe CoachNet platform should therefore be driven by an architecture supporting:<\/p>\n
A business operator independent information, reservation and booking system,<\/p>\n
Sales channels to be used by resellers, travel agencies, bus terminals or tour operators(B2B) and directly by passengers,<\/p>\n
A\u00a0flexible multi-client capable data maintenance facility which permits participating parties such as e.g. bus operators, coach terminals or resellers to maintain their data such as schedules, tariffs etc. The common vision is to establish an \u201ceSolution\u201d service with the following aspects:<\/p>\n
Creating a system (organization and IT) for building up a virtual market place,<\/p>\n
\u201eWeb based\u201c solution for all steps of a convenience booking<\/p>\n
to generate transparency of actual coach offerings regarding:<\/p>\n
complete routing instead of single, non-connected travel segments<\/p>\n
incomplete schedules<\/p>\n
travel time (length of journey)<\/p>\n
travel cost and conditions<\/p>\n
security and safety levels and comfort of coaches and operators<\/p>\n
\nAbout the campaignSmart Move\u00a0\u2013 a joint industry initiative to promote a greater use of buses and coaches worldwide.
\n1. What is\u00a0Smart Move?
\nRead more about\u00a0the Smart Move campaign<\/p>\n
2. Why are we campaigning?
\nRead more about\u00a0the\u00a0role of bus and coach transport in the mobility chain
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Read more about\u00a0buses and coaches in today’s transport system<\/p>\n
3. How to achieve our goal?
\nSmart Move therefore aims to raise political and media awareness that the sustainable mobility solutions we seek is at our fingertips, simply by doubling the use of bus and coach transport worldwide. In Europe alone, such an increase would have the following impact:<\/p>\n
A reduction in CO2 emissions\u00a0by at least 50 million tonnes per year;<\/p>\n
A reduction in fatalities on EU roads and streets, by more than 3000 per year;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
A significant reduction of congestions in cities at zero cost for taxpayers, as a result of the expected 10-15% reduction in car traffic;<\/p>\n
The creation of 4 million new jobs.<\/p>\n
Smart Move\u00a0is a global awareness campaign initiated jointly by the\u00a0IRU\u00a0and\u00a0Busworld\u00a0which advocates the doubling of bus and coach use worldwide, as they are the safest, most environmentally-friendly, affordable, user-friendly and efficient means of collective passenger transport.
\nSmart Move is endorsed by 85 committed partners around the world, including leading industry organisations, vehicle manufacturers and media, as well as thousands of bus\/coach operators and individual supporters, sharing the values and advocating the objective of the campaign.
\nGovernments all over the world are looking for ways to increase safety on their roads, reduce damage done to the environment and meet their citizens\u2019 needs with the least amount of time and money.
\nBuses and coaches offer an optimal solution to a range of current mobility challenges facing modern societies, including climate change, road safety, connectivity, social inclusion and congestion, to name but a few.
\nRegrettably, citizens, politicians and mass media are often unaware of this reality. On the contrary, buses and coaches are often wrongly associated by politicians and the public with problems commonly attributed to road transport, such as pollution and congestion.
\nThis misperception has led to a situation where buses and coaches are not only underperforming in terms of their contribution to society, but also suffer from political negligence and often improper, non-adapted and even restrictive legislation.
\nThe Smart Move campaign aims at changing this state of play by providing to policy and opinion makers updated facts and figures to ensure an informed debate in policy-making processes and tools to encourage people to switch from cars to buses and coaches whenever possible.
\nTo allow bus and coach transport to live up to their full potential in providing green, safe, efficient and affordable mobility services to all, it is crucial to promote and further facilitate their operations by implementing simple, affordable and judicious measures. This would be the ultimate Smart Move!
\nBy documenting and advocating the implementation of\u00a0policies that support and incentivise bus and coach travel\u00a0at local, national, regional and global level, hundreds of millions of cars can be taken off the road, thus dramatically contributing to road safety and carbon reduction targets of governments throughout the globe, to everybody\u2019s benefit.
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