IRU Forum: Buses & coaches at a crossroads: long distance and innovation.
Agenda
First Panel Debate
Second Panel Debate
Thursday 3 March 2016, 10:30-15:00
Introduction
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Yves Mannaerts, IRU Vice President
First Panel Debate
Long distance coach lines: economic lessons and business opportunities
Economic lessons from the liberalisation of the German Model
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Christoph Gipp, Managing Director, IGES Institut GmbH.
What opportunities for SMEs in the recently liberalised French Market?
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Gregory Carmona, Strategy and Development, REUNIR.
The liberalisation of Italian long distance bus market: first results, opportunities and threats.
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Paolo Beria, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano.
The European Commission perspective and the "Road Initiatives"
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Ray Malanaphy, DG MOVE, EU Commission.
Long distance coach lines: a global perspective
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Rui Silva, Vice President, EUROLINES Organisation.
Second Panel Debate
Innovation: the digital revolution and the need to rethink mobility.
The CheckMyBus Model
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Marc Hofmann, Managing Director, CheckMyBus.
The Blablacar model
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Romain Fau, General Manager France, Benelux and Spain, Blablacar.
Building a worldwide bus station
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LP Maurice, CEO & Co-Founder, Busbud.
Conclusions
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Oleg Kamberski, IRU.
Brussels, Belgium