EPTA stands for European model for Public Transport Authority as a key factor leading to transport sustainability.
The mission of EPTA is to increase public transport sustainability focusing on environmental, energy and economic aspects. EPTA will identify a model for Public Transport Authorities as powerful tools for governance. As a strategy, the use of three leverages: Quality, Efficiency and Efficacy will be applied to the 7 key functions related to public transport sector governance: Regulate, Plan, Tender/Award, Integrate, Promote, Manage, Control.
The key concept is that these 7 fuctions could be concentrated in a single body able to support policy makers and involve relevant stakeholders. Good practices across Europe will be identified, collected and transferred into regional development policies, to produce, as final result, a transferable and customizable MODEL to be adopted for the successful implementation or re-organization of a PTA.