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[email protected] web: www.atm-transmet.org Legal deposit: B30774-06 Print: Anman Design: www.elogia.net Barcelona, may 2006 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT This MTA activity report for 2005 can be summarised in two figures: the transport systems integrated and associated in the MTA transported 887 million passengers during the year. This is the total num- ber of trips accounted. The second figure would be closely equivalent: 841 million Euros as the expen- se required to attend to this volume of passengers. With evenly balanced contributions between sub- ventions and income from the sale of tickets. All the rest revolves around these large figures. Integrated fare system (more than 70% of users with integrated tickets), modernisation and extension of the system (new trains, new buses, higher fre- quency), new investments (accessibility to stations and rolling stock, new lines and interchanges...), sur- veys (daily mobility), the Mobility Management Plan for the Metropolitan Region, are all qualitative expressions of these figures. But the figures and the material innovations do not do justice to the soul, heart, the nitty-gritty of what the public transport system represents. In this sense I would like to stress and proclaim the commitment to public service, constant improvement of the service, attention to users, the priority of providing the service in terms of quality and excellence, as a pragmatic and ideological priorities of the MTA in regard to public transport.