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Free Public Transport in Tallinnfinancial, environmental and
social aspects
Forum for Sustainable Mobility andUrban Development
SIBIU March 21 2013
Tnu Karu
Representative of Tallinn at the EU
[email protected]
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Basic figures
Population of Tallinn 425 000
Total number of public transport vehicles (bus,
tram, trolley-bus): 480
2012 PT budget 53 million
Total tickets revenue -17 Mio
5 Mio from non-Tallinners
Free PT for Tallinners costs
12 Mio annually
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Why we did it?Social aspects: guaranteeing mobility for
unemployedand low income residents. Using PT facilitates
sharing
common space for different segments of the society
Economic aspects:
increasing labour mobility in the city limits;stimulating
consumers activity;
savings from public transport are spent for local goods
and services
Green aspects: modal shift from cars to PT, cleaner
air, less noise, more urban space
Fiscal aspects: strong motivation to register place of
residence, thus increasing personal income tax
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Plebiscite on free PT 19-25 March,
2012
Plebiscite informed the community and
involved them in decision-making, thus
locking the free PT decision politically -power shift in the
Council cannot
change it easily.
Result: Yes -75,5%, No - 24,5%
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In the beginning
there was a referendum
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Expanding exclusive bus
lanes network in 2012
Merger of two municipal public
transport companies (June 2012)
City Council decision on free PT(September 2012, entered into
force
1 January 2013)
Implementation of new contactless
card (started in 2012 September)
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Preparatory steps
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New residents registered population
grew since 01.01.2012 by 9000
persons (2 %) thus increasing
municipal revenues from personalincome tax
Merger of two municipal public
transport companies considerable
savings on operational costs
Widening the paid parking area, raising
parking tariffs
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New sources of funding
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Increased number of bus users
14%, incl new profiles of
passengers on business days
(see the picture), evenings andweekends. More people go out
to spend free time and money.
Decrease of the car traffic in the
centre 15%.
Combined with impact of exclusive
bus lanes.
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Initial progress report
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Increasing satisfaction
Users of the contactless travel card are
accustomed with the new system.
Public transport timetables are more accurateas evaluated by 79%
of passengers.
60% of PT passengers reason their usage with
the FREE aspect.Positive evaluation for all different aspects
is
between 57-83 %
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With Aubagne (FR) and Hasselt (BE)
Tallinn is initiating the European
Network of Free Public Transport to
bring the issue in the EU agenda.
Positive initial opinions by the European
Commissioners 28 February 2013.
Developing contact with City of Chengdu
which is testing FPT since Oct 2012
Tallinn FPT was listed among 30 most
deserving urban innovations in
Guangzhou International Award
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International networking
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Most of PT systems are partly
subsidised in the cities and regions.
Economical, environmental and social
benefits of free public transport giveus the courage to develop
our
continuing practice.
Free Public Internet is often
recognized as eveyones right.
Now it is the turn of urban mobility.
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Looking forward!
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We have a dream
Tallinn has the ambitious plan to be the
candidate for the European Green Capital
nomination for 2018.
FPT is a brave step in this process.
Discussions about providing free water,
garbage collection etc may follow.
Thank you !www.tallinn.ee/freepublictransport
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