Association for European Transport The leading European organisation for transport professionals AETnews Issue 43: June 2020 Transport in times of COVID-19 ALSO INSIDE... ETC Online Page 6 Our network is growing An even greater opportunity to participate Page 7 COVID-19 Council Election Conversations Page 8 Page 3 CONNECT WITH AET... A short history www.aetransport.org of local public Association for European transport in Milan Transport (AET) Pages 4-5 @EuTransportConf #ETC2020online AETnews Issue 43: June 2020 Milan, Italy: view of Largo D'Ancona during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown by Pierluigi Coppola Time to talk about the
[email protected] future of mobility in the COVID-19 era Dear fellow AET Members, I hope that you are keeping well and safe. As mobility will finally conquer for significant market Chair of the Board of the Association for European shares. But there will be time and opportunities Transport, I would like to express my sympathy with to talk about the future of mobility in the COVID you and your families, during these difficult times. era, today I would rather bring you news about 2 A health emergency due to a frightening spread of important developments within AET. COVID-19 throughout Europe has changed, over Firstly, the European Transport Conference the last three months, our daily-routine, our work, is going to be held online in September this and interpersonal relations. Cities have been locked year. For the first time in 48 years we will not down with enormous economic impacts, but also be able to hold ETC in its usual format and its changes in mobility and in the urban landscape.