The commitment to sustainable mobility: the Regional Transport Consortium Madrid

Jose Ignacio Lopez Iturbe
Managing Director
Regional Transport Consortium Madrid

CHRISTOPHER Carlos PINTO
Head of the Studies and Planning
Regional Transport Consortium Madrid

ABSTRACT
The Community of Madrid, with more than five and a half million inhabitants, relatively high level of motorization, high modal split in favor of public and some level of traffic congestion transport, is involved in a process of transformation, especially in the last decade .

The complexity of its territorial and economic structure requires a system provided with efficient transportation to channel flows derived from its socio-economic activity. For this public transport must provide a competitive suited to the mobility needs of its citizens system. The variety of networks and operators, public and private, requires an organization of public transport where the presence of a coordinating body of public transport is a cornerstone.

administrative integration, fare integration and modal integration: Under this scenario, the Regional Transport Consortium Madrid, created seventeen years ago as a transport authority to promote public transport by means of an integration strategy based on three pillars arises. This strategy is contributing to sustainable mobility in the region, where users take advantage of a large public transport networks have channeled more than 1.500 million trips, with a suitable level of quality and adequate conditions of unrestricted mobility.

KEYWORDS
Transport authority, Urban transport, passenger transport, Metropolitan area, Mobility, Madrid.