Investing in the Future of Public Transport

November 2020 Our Vision NTA’s vision is to provide high quality, accessible, sustainable transport connecting people across Ireland.

Our focus is on ensuring that public transport services and infrastructure are designed and implemented to give the best possible experiences for the travelling public, and to provide value for the State’s investment.

That is at the core of everything we do.

NTA projects identified under the National Development Plan 2018- 2027 include:

• Continued investment in and train fleets, and public transport infrastructure.

BUS TRAIN

• Delivery of the full BusConnects programme for all of Ireland’s cities (inclusive of ticketing systems, bus corridors, additional capacity, new bus stops and bus shelters etc.) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT FOR A BETTER CITY.

• Transition to low emission , including electric buses, for the urban public bus fleet.

• Complete construction of MetroLink.

• Delivery of the priority elements of DART+ including investment in new train fleet, new infrastructure and electrification of existing lines.

• Strategic park-and-ride sites plus investment in parking facilities at rail, P+R and bus locations.

• Delivery of comprehensive cycling and walking network for Ireland’s cities.

BIKE WALKING

• Supporting programmes of rail and bus station improvement/development, traffic management investment, passenger information programmes, public bicycle share schemes, and accessibility enhancements.

TRAM BUS BIKE

• Undertake appraisal, planning and design of Luas network expansion to Bray, Finglas, Lucan, Poolbeg and a light rail corridor for Cork. Subsidising vital public transport services The vast majority of all public transport journeys are made on Public Service Obligation (PSO) services. NTA supports operators including Bus, Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann, Go-Ahead Ireland and Luas to provide vital bus and rail services to communities around the country in both rural and urban areas.

All Public Service Obligation services, those operated by way of a contract with the NTA, run under the TFI brand. Another aspect of the promotion of sustainable transport is co-ordinating the provision of travel information to the travelling public through Real Time Passenger Information system and our TFI Journey Planner App.

Ticketing for the future We are working on developing an app-based mobile ticketing solution, and work on the design and procurement of central systems for Account Based Ticketing (ABT) and contactless bank card payments is under way.

Investing in cycling infrastructure In 2013, we published our Greater Dublin Area Cycling Network Plan. When completed, the cycle route network will comprise of urban cycle routes in the full urban area of Dublin and the major towns in the surrounding counties, as well as rural cycle routes and greenways across the region consisting of 7 local authority areas. NTA also provides funding to local authorities for bike share schemes in Cork, Galway and Limerick, and continues to support the DublinBikes scheme.

Linking communities in rural areas TFI Local Link is the NTA’s rural transport programme, offering approximately 1,000 Public Bus Services in rural areas of Ireland that are managed at local level. TFI Local Link provides a combination of scheduled public transport services and demand responsive, door-to-door services.

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