EU Parliament: One transport ticket in the EU

With an overwhelming majority has the European Parliament passed its resolution regarding the unification of transport ticket system in the European Union, Polish Press Agency reported. MEPs propose a transboundary ticket, which would allow citizens to use all modes of European transportation. The purpose of such action is to encourage the use of public transport and facillitate mobility. Polish MEP from the Law and Justice party (PiS), Tomasz Poręba, firmly advocated ease and convenience of use, as well as lower price of the new ticket. Access to information concerning air, water, rail and road travel plays the pivotal role in the process. EP wants to enable every denizen to search all possible transport offers, make reservation and payment online, and use only one ticket to complete the whole journey. Were the plans incorporated, by 2020 domestic information systems would have been merged, and by 2024 the unification would have occurred on the European scale. In five years' time, all EU members are urged to equip all transport vehicles with real-time intelligent information services as a pre-emptive measure against superfluous traffic. The integration of infrastructure is indispensable, as the data by the Committee on Transport and Tourism of the EP prove. Estimations indicate that only 27.8 percent of EU citizens use other transport vehicles than cars.