1. Introduction to the ELIPTIC User Forum
13 November 2015, Berlin
Yannick Bousse, UITP

2. About the ELIPTIC User forum
Assessment and validation of the ELIPTIC concepts and results
Independent expertise
Meet twice yearly
Updates on the latest developments in your cities
Confidentiality
Aggregated data
The objective of the ELIPTIC User Group is to enlarge the assessment and validation of the ELIPTIC concepts and results through independent expertise.
The group will meet on a bi-annual basis and provide updates on the latest developments in their cities so that forum members can learn from each another experience.
Through the User Forum assessments, the ELIPTIC Consortium will be able to widen its results, adapting them better to the needs of public transport operators and authorities.
Workshops will also include relevant site visits.
All data collected from ELIPTIC User Forum members will by aggregated for inclusion in reports.
Individual data will be kept confidential.

3. Current members User Forum members Wiener Linier Dopravni podnik Prahu
EMT Madrid
City of Tampere
Bybanen AS
RET Rotterdam
Transport Infrastructure Ireland
CTM Spa Cagliari
City of Arnhem
Municipality of Maribor
Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam
Oradea Local Transport Company
BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
City of Birmingham
RATB Bucharest
One group

4. What is expected of participants in the User Forum?
Active participation in twice yearly meetings
Providing updates on the latest electric public transport developments in their city
Complete surveys
Contribute to the project development
Validate project results
Surveys every meeting with varying degrees of depth. Next meeting the survey will be more in depth. Follow the members and learn from them.
By participating to the meetings they are contributing to the project development
The first three points are the real actions we will ask of them and the last two follow from those.
We expect representation of the organisation twice a year.

5. What you will gain?
First-hand information on the latest research results on the optimisation of electric public transport
Influencing the technical and political development of ELIPTIC
Topical site visits and presentations
Exchange with other electric public transport users at one-day workshops
International networking opportunities
Reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs
Influencing the technical and political development of ELIPTIC: this project is trying to make a larger difference on an EU level and they can be part of that by influencing ELIPTIC.

6. What will your input help us with?
Evaluation of the project
Determining business cases
Transferability of results
Policy recommendations
Do we want input for all or some of these deliverables?
We send them just a few pages in advance of the meetings and as them to review based on their experience.
Impacts Evaluation Plan
Process Evaluation Plan
Full Evaluation
Business Cases
Transferability potential at European level
Development Schemes
Policy recommendations
Final Use Cases Reports

7. Reimbursment procedure for UITP User Forum members
Travel expenses covered up to 600€
Flight/train, accommodation, subsistence, local other costs
Original receipts and boarding passes to provided
Fill in bank account details and sign the form
to UITP the form and a scan of your receipts
Once approved, send original signed form and originals receipts and boarding passes by post to UITP

8. Next meetings Date City November 2015 Leipzig June 2016 Gdynia
Tbd
June 2017
Oberhausen
November 2017
Barcelona
May 2018
Bremen

9. NEXT MEETING Gydina Friday 10 June 2016