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Dear Nikolaos, Sadettin, Gerard, Carlos, Sherry, Honza, Dusan,
Carla, Wim, Jacek, Rachid, Joep, Giancarlo, Christopher, Marc,
Steven, Ioan, Jean-Philippe and Nigel

Apparently you are all interested in transportation, either from
the point of view of science, practice or profession. What I
would like to ask you all is to mail the transit listserver your
main interest in the field of transportation. Looking at the
list of subscribers to the list I get the impression that there
are quite a lot of different countries and probably
quite a lot of different kinds of expertise represented on the
listserver. It might be a good idea to give a short intro of
your main interrest, so other people can react to that from
there own experience. Maybe this already happened once, I don't
know because I'm new on this specific list.

I'm a PhD student at the Delft University of Technology.

I am studiing the integration of several modes of public
transportation in to a system which is affordable for customers
and the subsidising governement, offers high quality throughout
the transportchain (from door to door), is manageble and offers
a good alternative for other modes of transportation, especially
the automobile.

I'm very interrested in efforts made in other countries to try
to break down the barriers which often exist between trains,
trams, buses, subways, light rail etc. Often the operators of
public transportation services are not really willing to give up
their relative freedom in producing a schedule, selling their
tickets at their own prices  to join up with other operators to
integrate their systems, eventhough this would serve the
customer.

In my study i am looking at the possibilities which exist in the
Dutch setting for more integration both from a network point of
view as from a managerial and financing point of view. I'm
trying to widen my scope by looking abroad for examples of
succesfull or not succesfull attempts. I am already aware
several smaller Dutch schemes and of bigger efforts in Miami
(FL.USA) and Zurich (CH.EUR).

When you know of other smaller or larger examples, please let me
know, either on the listserver or on my personal E-mail account.

Groetjes (which is Dutch for greetings)
Wijnand Veeneman
School of Systems Engeneering, Policy Analysis and Managemant
POBox 5015
2600 GA Delft
the Netherlands
wijnandv@sepa.tudelft.nl

It's hard to make improvements without changing anything
Mikhail Gorbachev
Address to the Supreme Soviet Congress
February 1986