27. Stresses the need for more and better promotion and showcasing of the more than a hundred multimodal journey planners that are already available in cities, regions and on the national level in the EU, and calls also for efforts promoting the interconnection of these services;

22. Points out the need to reduce congestion and air pollution in urban areas and calls for the introduction of incentives to encourage the use of sustainable modes of transport across Europe, with the inclusion in travel information and journey-planning services of information about diverse mobility services, e.g. car sharing, carpooling, park-and-ride systems, bicycle rental systems, cycles lanes and footpaths;

B. whereas most travellers continue to prefer individual transport, and whereas, given that creating EU-wide journey planners will not in itself be enough to achieve better integration of the various modes of transport, each of these transport modes needs to become more efficient, sustainable and user friendly, and that process will be significantly assisted by, inter alia, the adoption of the Fourth Railway Package to the extent that it would ensure equal access to infrastructure also for smaller operators, SMEs and start-ups, the adoption of the Regulation on air passengers’ rights and of a European waterways strategy and the implemen ...[+++]tation of the Single European Sky and TEN-T priority projects;

the availability of public transport, travel planning, transport demand, traffic data and parking data to urban control centres and service providers,

‘travel data’ means basic data such as public transport timetables and tariffs, necessary to provide multi-modal travel information before and during the trip to facilitate travel planning, booking and adaptation.

This reflection led in a first stage to the Commission Staff Working Document ‘Roadmap towards delivering EU-wide multimodal travel information, planning and ticketing services’ in June 2014[19].