Post on 29-Mar-2015
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Modular Transport in Dublin
How it ‘evolved’Eoin C. Bairéad
VOCA Praha
Córas Iompair Éireann – CIÉ broken up in 1986
• Dublin Bus provides bus services in the Greater Dublin area, including most bus services within Dublin city and the former County Dublin
• Bus Éireann provides intercity and regional bus services outside Dublin city and county and from Dublin to the rest of the country. It also operates the city buses in Cork Limerick, Waterford, and Galway and a number of other small urban bus systems.
• Iarnród Éireann operates InterCity and Commuter trains
DART – Dublin Rapid Area Transport
• Trams - Luas• LUAS – i t means ‘speed’ in Irish• A light rail transit system – a TRAM• Veolia Transdev Ireland operate Luas• on behalf of Railway Procurement
Agency, a public - private partnership.• Veolia Transdev is the transport
division of Veolia Environnement, Europe's largest private passenger transport company.
LUAS – Dublin Trams
• There is NO common ticketing system in Dublin
• Common main-line train tickets very expensive
• Základní jízdenky - (32,-Kč/dospělý; 16,-Kč/dítě 6-15 let, důchodce 60-70 let) - Jízdenka platí 90minut od označení.
The ‘Leap’ Card
• For use on all Dublin transport• Each part – one ticket – one fare• Bus – Luas – DART – 3 fares.
J.C. Decaux
• 44 stations• 30 minutes FREE• Launched September 2009• 1,000,000 journeys August 2010• 2,000,000 journeys May 2011• Private!
•Bikelocker•Private!
• Bike to Work• BIK