Ref. Ares(2017)325830 - 20/01/2017 Thematic Workshop A (UK) LowCVP: UK eBus Summit 6.11 - Summary report of Thematic Workshop A (UK), current and future dissemination activities to promote the Deliverable eLIPTIC project aims, actions and outcomes to UK stakeholders in regards to the electrification of public transport in cities. Authors Dan Hayes, LowCVP Status (D: draft; F: final) F Document’s privacy PU (Public: PU; Private: PR) Hendrik Koch, City of Bremen; Reviewed by Wolfgang Backhaus, Rupprecht Consult; Yannick Bousse, UITP This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 636012. D6.11 Thematic Workshop A SUMMARY SHEET Programme Horizon 2020 Contract N. 636012 Project Title Electrification of public transport in cities Acronym ELIPTIC Coordinator Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Web-site http://www.eliptic-project.eu/ Starting date 1 June 2015 Number of months 36 months Deliverable N. 6.11 Deliverable Title Thematic Workshop Pillar A Milestones N/a Version V1 Date of issue 20-01-2017 Distribution [Internal/External] External Dissemination level [Public/ Confidential] Public Abstract The Thematic Pillar A Workshop was held on the 10th November 2016 in central London. The workshop was arranged by the LowCVP to disseminate the aims, objectives and current progress of the eLIPTIC project by M18 to UK stakeholders (local & national gov’t, transport operators, industry and public). Through LowCVP’s membership community and wider industry contacts over 50 delegates attended the workshop, with video recording used and shared via social media to further disseminate the Keywords Workshop, Dissemination, Pillar A, ELITPTIC, CITIVAS, Horizon2020, LowCVP, UK Critical risks This report is subject to a disclaimer and copyright. This report has been carried out under a contract awarded by the European Commission, contract number: 636012 Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership | 1 D6.11 Thematic Workshop A DOCUMENT CHANGE LOG Version Date Main area of changes Organisation Comments 1 05/01/2017 n/a LowCVP n/a Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership | 2 D6.11 Thematic Workshop A PARTNER CONTRIBUTION Company Sections Description of the partner contribution LowCVP Entire document Document leader City of Bremen Entire document Review of document Rupprecht Consult Entire document Review of document UITP Entire document Review of document Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership | 3 D6.11 Thematic Workshop A Table of Contents SUMMARY SHEET .................................................................................................... 1 DOCUMENT CHANGE LOG ...................................................................................... 2 PARTNER CONTRIBUTION ...................................................................................... 3 1. Executive Summary .......................................................................................... 5 a. Brief Summary ................................................................................................................. 5 b. Keynote Speakers ............................................................................................................. 5 c. Event structure................................................................................................................. 6 d. Event Dissemination Highlights ......................................................................................... 6 2. Workshop Description ...................................................................................... 8 a. Workshop Objective ......................................................................................................... 8 b. Overview ......................................................................................................................... 8 c. Participants .................................................................................................................... 11 d. Site Visit ......................................................................................................................... 12 3. Workshop Dissemination ............................................................................... 13 a. Promotion ...................................................................................................................... 13 b. External Media Coverage ................................................................................................ 18 c. Social Media Coverage ................................................................................................... 19 d. Outside scope ................................................................................................................ 23 4. Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 24 Annex II: Workshop Media: Pictures & Video ...................................................... 27 a. Photos ........................................................................................................................... 27 b. Video ............................................................................................................................. 35 Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership | 4 D6.11 Thematic Workshop A 1. Executive Summary a. Brief Summary The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s (LowCVP) “UK eBus Summit” was held on the 10th November 2016 in London at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, West End, WC1B 4BH. The event included a morning of presentations, including an introduction to the eLIPTIC project and examples of use case projects, followed by lunch and then a site visit to an electric bus depot - Go-Ahead London’s (Bus Operator) Waterloo depot - home to 46 BYD ADL E200 EVs by the end of 2016. The event was standalone, but did seek to cover 2 other key activities involving LowCVP and UK eBus stakeholders. The event was used to launch a report detailing 20 case studies of Low Carbon Emission Bus fleets in operation in the UK: “A Green Bus for Every Journey”. This report looked at the performance of Low Carbon Emission Buses (the UK’s definition for a bus that produces 30% less greenhouse gas emissions over the Millbrook London Bus Test cycle) from a bus operator’s perspective. The second key activity was sharing the activities of eBus fleet projects in the UK separate to eLIPTIC with European and UK stakeholders, detailing the variety of technologies and infrastructure solutions that have been used to deploy around 180 eBuses UK wide. The event saw a turnout of 54 delegates out of total of 75 who registered, including UK bus operators, national government, local authorities, bus manufacturers, technology developers and service providers. b. Keynote Speakers The event included a keynote speech from Mike Weston, formerly Head of Buses at Transport for London and currently the Chair of the LowCVP Bus Working Group. In the keynote speech, three key themes were covered; air quality, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the use of existing infrastructure. Other speakers included: Mark Poulton, Principal Technical Specialist – Vehicle Technology, Environment & Walking, Strategy & Planning, TfL Surface Transport - Transport for London. Marta Woronowicz, PR Manager & Mikolaj Bartlomiejczyk, PKT Gdynia. Andy Eastlake, Managing Director – Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership. Mark Munday, Technical Director – First UK Bus. Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership | 5 D6.11 Thematic Workshop A Colin Gerald, Engineering Manager, Bus Engineering – Transport for London. Steve Cornes, Senior Project Officer – Nottingham City Council. Derek McCreadie, Programme Manager, i-Travel – City of York Council. Leonard Chew, Business Development Executive – Build Your Dreams. Adrian Llewellyn, Business Manager – SSE Enterprise. c. Event structure The event was broken up into two parts. In the morning (09.00-13.00), there was a theatre style arrangement for delegates to watch ten presentations, in the afternoon (14.00-16.00) a site visit to a bus garage, twenty minutes’ drive from the venue. The event was listed to start at 09.00, with thirty minutes of registration time, with refreshments served on arrival. The morning presentations were broken up into two sections separated by a refreshments break. The keynote speech preceded an introduction to eLIPTIC and two eLIPTIC project introductions and progress-to-date presentations from Gdynia and Transport for London. LowCVP introduced the UK bus policy framework and Low Carbon Emission Bus market development. LowCVP then launched the “Green Bus for Every Journey” report. Following a short break, five examples of eBus deployment in the UK were given from York, Nottingham, London, Milton Keynes and BYD with SSE on the specific project in Waterloo, London. The morning session ended with a discussion session involving LowCVP, BYD, PKT Gdynia, First UK Bus, Nottingham City Council, SSE and BYD. This forty-minute session was provided for delegates to ask questions and discuss topics relating to eBus uptake. This was then followed up by lunch at the hotel and in the afternoon delegates were transported using an electric shuttle bus (BYD ADL E200 EV) from the hotel to the bus depot and back again. d. Event Dissemination Highlights The morning section of the event was recorded, with each presentation broken up into segments and made available to access for free via the LowCVP and UITP websites, hosted on YouTube. There were also two highlight videos, one short (circa 1 minute) and a longer one (circa