"Buses & coaches at a crossroads: long distance and innovation" forum

Thursday 3 March 2016, 10:30-15:00

Introduction

• 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

• Christoph Gipp, Managing Director, IGES Institut GmbH. 

What opportunities for SMEs in the recently liberalised French Market?

• Gregory Carmona, Strategy and Development, REUNIR.  

The liberalisation of Italian long distance bus market: first results, opportunities and threats.

• Paolo Beria, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano.

The European Commission perspective and the "Road Initiatives"

• Ray Malanaphy, DG MOVE, EU Commission.    

Long distance coach lines: a global perspective

• Rui Silva, Vice President, EUROLINES Organisation.

Second Panel Debate
Innovation: the digital revolution and the need to rethink mobility.

The CheckMyBus Model

• Marc Hofmann, Managing Director, CheckMyBus.

The Blablacar model

• Romain Fau, General Manager France, Benelux and Spain, Blablacar.

Building a worldwide bus station

• LP Maurice, CEO & Co-Founder, Busbud.

Conclusions

• Oleg Kamberski, IRU.