18:00 – 19:00 // Thursday, 18. March 2021
Public Transport & Sustainable mobility transition for everyone
Keynote EN
Mark Wege
In this keynote, Mark Wege, founder and one of the speakers of Einfach Einsteigen, the organisation behind this event, will tell the story of Einfach Einsteigen, how it is intertwined with the idea ÖffiCON, the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen we live in and their ideas on how to make a successful sustainable mobility transition that works for everyone.
10:30 – 12:00 // Friday, 19. March 2021
Leaser-tickets as a contribution to a traffic turnover? Evaluation results of the SennestadtTicket in Bielefeld
Lecture
Janina Welsch, Michael Herwegen
In a part of the city Bielefeld, Sennestadt, a so called leaser-ticket has been introduced. This ticket allowed the free use of busses in Sennestadt and fewer costs of public transport in the rest of the city. The result: more people used busses and being on climate friendly vehicle made social participation easier.
13:00 – 14:30 // Friday, 19. March 2021
Tariff models & experiments
Roundtable
Jochen Sauer, Philip Bedall, Stefan Weigele
Traffic turnaround and the request for more public transport demands a new financial structure. We have invited different speakers to talk about the new and existing tariff models and their (dis-)advantages.
13:00 – 14:30 // Friday, 19. March 2021
Introducing Einfach Einsteigen
Lecture
Wolfgang Geißler
Einfach Einsteigen has been working towards a traffic turnaround for three years in Bremen and Germany. The initiative is using an approach that develops concepts from professional findings, which meet approval from society and are being accelerated through campaign work. How Einfach Einsteigen works will be shown by Wolfgang Geißler by taking a look at the concept for Bremen.
17:15 – 18:45 // Friday, 19. March 2021
Financing options for public transport
Panel
The Covid-19 pandemic emphasizes the fragility of an only ticket-based way of financing public transport. Several cities in Europe are already offering free or ticket-free use of local transport. What can we learn from these concepts?
10:30 – 12:00 // Saturday, 20. March 2021
Beneficial financing for the public transport infrastructure in cities
Lecture
Oliver Mietzsch
Here, we illustrate a beneficial financing concept for cities’ railbound public transport systems. The implicated participation of this concept aims to cover the expenses for developing and extending the street infrastructure or rather municipal supply and disposal infrastructure (BauGB, laws of municipal taxes of the federal states). A significant difference to usual means of collecting taxes for this purpose is, regarding the current financing situation, that in terms of public transportation, there is no common use of it like in street infrastucture and that people are not forced to use (i.e. through follow-up fees).
