DELEGATION VISITED ELECTRIC MIDIBUS IN SERVICE AT WIENER LINIEN

At the request of Budapest’s Castle district, Priority Area 2 of the EUSDR organized a field trip for the representatives of the Budapest Transport Company, the Budapest Transport Centre and the Castle district to the Vienna Transport Company (Wiener Linien). The meeting took place at 2 May, 2013 in Vienna with the aim to visit the electric midi bus installed by Wiener Linien in the autumn of 2012.

The participants received a 2-hour presentation, during which they discussed various technical details with the representatives of Wiener Linien, then they had a one-hour trip with the electric bus in Vienna’s city center.

The visit was an important step in the evolution of a new environment-friendly and energy-efficient transport concept in the Castle district of Budapest by sharing best practices in the Danube region and providing an occasion to build professional relationship between the experts of Vienna and Budapest.