09/30/09
Change of email and Internet domain
Since its founding in 1999 nexus has used email accounts of the "Technische Universität Berlin" (TUB). Related on a new external communication nexus has changed email addresses and Internet domain. The website is now reachable by the domain www.nexusinstitut.de The new email address for each employee will be nachname@nexusinstitut.de and for the institute at all mail@nexusinstitut.de. We kindly ask you to update your data. The receipt of emails with current addresses is guaranteed to the end of the year 2009. You will find current contact information including phone numbers and email address at the nexus staff page staff members.
06/21/09
Project Megacity Hyderabad
Citizens’ Exhibition „Ready to Move …?!“ presented at Youth Summit
The Citizens’ Exhibition “Ready to Move … ?” prepared by nexus was recently presented at the second “Hyderabad Youth Summit on Climate Change” held in Hyderabad, in order to further promote the public discourse on sustainable traffic and transport. The summit was organized by the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) and supported by WWF, India. Its’ main goal was to engage the Indian youth, professionals and experts in a vivid discussion on Climate Change and its’ direct effects for Hyderabad. At the end a „Hyderabad Youth Charter on Climate Change“ including personal action plans and recommendations to politics and economics was formulated.
Further information:
www.sustainable-hyderabad.in
http://hysocc.weebly.com
www.whatswiththeclimate.org
Download of the Citizens’ Exhibition in [English] and [Telugu]
 06/11/09
Project BUSREP
Book release on customer interests concerning public transport
Busses and trains are supposed to be attractive and to make a contribution to sustainable development. One option to achieve a high-quality public transport is to actively include passengers while planning the service. Facing monopolies of contractors as well as political regulation and influence, market-based incentives alone can not guarantee that expectations of current and potential customers will be adequately respected.
In the book “Customer interests in public transport – consumer protection and consumer involvement” the authors discuss concepts from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Sweden and the Netherlands. They give recommendations on how to frame a customer dialogue on the levels of politics, planning, practice and production successfully. The book especially addresses people in charge of transport planning and transport policy, but also the field of applied research. ... more
04/17/09
Project „Participation at municipalities“
Compendium on participation in municipalities now published
Due to the demographic change the living conditions in many cities and communities will be modified. Therefore it is important that the cooperation between local government, companies and citizens is encouraged. This cooperation improves the quality of life but includes also challenges. "The administration employees need to take over a new role", said Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD), German Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs.
At his view, it is necessary for the administration to be "a partner and facilitator of events" - and not just only to perform an action. The now published guide "Strengthening local infrastructure through cooperation between citizens, administration and companies” is part of the nexus project " Participation at municipalities". There was a research in the municipalities Strausberg (Brandenburg) and Sondershausen (Thuringia). The project team worked on new opportunities for a more intensive cooperation between administration, citizens and businesses.
Reference (in German): Dienel, Hans-Liudger; Daphne Reim; Jenny Schmithals; Thomas Olk: Stärkung der kommunalen Infrastruktur durch Kooperation von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern, Verwaltung und Unternehmen. Leitfaden, Deutscher Städte und Gemeindebund, Dokumentation Nr. 88. Verlagsbeilage zu „Stadt und Gemeinde Interaktiv“, Ausgabe 3/2009. Verlag Winkler & Stenzel, Burgwedel/Berlin, 2009.
Further details (in German):
Table of content (pdf)
Project „Partizipative Kommune“
04/15/09
Change of email and Internet domain
Since its founding in 1999 nexus has used email accounts of the “Technische Universität Berlin” (TUB). Related on a new external communication nexus has changed email addresses and Internet domain. The website is now reachable by the domain www.nexusinstitut.de. The new email address for each employee will be name@nexusinstitut.de and for the institute at all mail@nexusinstitut.de. We kindly ask you to update your data. The receipt of emails with current addresses is still guaranteed. You will find current contact information including phone numbers and email address at the nexus staff page staff members.
 04/03/09
Project BUSREP
New book published on user participation in public transport
Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment. However, the passenger's position as a customer is weakened by the dominance of monopolies, regulation and political influence in our public transport systems.
The book “Public Transport and its Users” is one of the first to examine strategies for the representation of user interests in public transport from a variety of perspectives. The authors review approaches to integrating the passengers' views in the planning process and to protecting their interests in operations and customer care across a range of European countries.
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04/02/09
nexus staff started events at Hyderabad
During its stay in Hyderabad in February 2009 the nexus staff members held the following events:
On February 21st the Workshop “Hyderabad Citizens’ Charter on Urban Transport” was held, which nexus co-hosted as part of the Megacity Project “Sustainable Hyderabad”. More than a hundred interested citizens joined the workshop and participated in lively discussions to make Hyderabad’s traffic and transport more sustainable. The demands of the citizens voiced during the event will be integrated in a citizens’ charter and handed over to the authorities.
On March 1st the Citizens’ Exhibition “Ready to Move…?!”, organised within the Megacity Project “Sustainable Hyderabad”, was inaugurated within the 5th Ward Sabah of the Tarnaka Residents’ Welfare Association with citizens of Tarnaka, a city quarter of Hyderabad, and representatives from Bangalore and Osmania University. The Citizens’ Exhibition is supposed to deepen the discussion about a sustainable traffic and transport among citizens and decision makers in Hyderabad. There is a free download below (English and Telugu).
Furthermore all main partners and stakeholders from Germany and India met in Hyderabad on March 2nd for a Scenario-Workshop in order to discuss probable development scenarios of the project’s main focus areas. Dr Andrea Koch-Kraft and Professor Dr Eckart Ehlers of the Project Management Agency of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) attended this event.
Download of the Citizens’ Exhibition “Ready to Move…?!”
English (2,8 MB, pdf)
Telugu (3,4 MB, pdf)
Further details on the project:
Megacity Project
08/07/08
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Successful completion of the PhD: Martin Schiefelbusch with the examiners Prof. Mnich (left), Siegmann (centre) and Heinze (right) |
The nexus team congratulates Martin Schiefelbusch to the successful completion of his PhD
Transport science is used to look at mobility from a rational point of view. Trips are classified according to origin, destination, time and mode of travel and disaggregated if necessary. This is the beginning of the preface in Martin Schiefelbusch's recently published PhD whose title is "Travel experience - the design of the trip as a new task for public transport". How can a simple public transport journey be transformed into a travel experience? To answer this question, the author analysed among other data 22 case studies. Examples include the Berlin S-Bahn's Christmas Train, the "Sparrow Tram" in Gera and the Hamburg "Nightcruiser". The presentation of the case studies includes their background, planning and user reactions. In a comparative analysis, Schiefelbusch then scrutinises the examples according to their emotional attractiveness. The starting point for the PhD was the
"Eventverkehr" project on which nexus worked with several partners between 2000 and 2004.
02/22/08
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Dr. Gerhard Sabathil receives the citizens’ report from participants of the Berlin planning cells. |
Presentation of the citizens‘ report to the European Commission
Key Points for an Open, Ecological and Civil Europe
According to Dr. Gerhard Sabathil citizens should be more involved in the process of European integration. On the occasion of the presentation of the citizens’ report Dr. Sabathil pointed out that the European Commission knows well about the interests of different pressure groups. “Therefore I am very interested in the results of the citizens’ report and I am happy to transmit them to Brussels”, underlined Dr. Sabathil.
The presentation of the report in the European House in Berlin was the completion of the planning cells within the European Citizens’ Consultations (ECC). A team consisting of researchers and research assistants of the nexus Institute prepared, coordinated, and moderated the whole process under the lead of Dr. Hans-Liudger Dienel... more.
02/12/08
International Workshop
The ELOST Consortium invites all eGovernment-Experts to participate in an international workshop to discuss the outcome of the project and especially its Policy Recommendations. Interested experts can register until 29 February. For more information on workshop and registration, please click here. For a detailed agenda, please click here.
10/26/07
A new network is the answer about the demographic change of rural areas. Main objectives of the network, which has been founded in Stendal (Saxony-Anhalt) last week, is to improve the relations between citizens and organizations of the city and the Altmark area around. The nexus Institute will develop structure and content during the next weeks. ...more
09/03/07
Project mobikult
Since two years the nexus Institute has developed together with the Technical University of Berlin new concepts of public transport in rural areas of the federal state Brandenburg. The closing event will be held in Cottbus at September 20th, 2007. It starts at the Stadthaus at 10.15 hrs and will be closed at 16.30 hrs. The event is presented by Prof. Dr. Horst Luley together with the project team and successful mobikult participants.
Find further details (pdf file in German):
Invitation [pdf]
Agenda [pdf]
Registration [pdf]
07/12/07
nexus advises Welsh Assembly Government on the set-up of a Public Transport Users Committee
The Welsh Assembly Government has invited nexus to contribute its experience to the set-up of a transport user committee in Wales. The first meeting of a working group to develop the statute of the organisation and to consider the selection process for members took place on 12 July. It is intended that the new body shall have its first public meeting in October 2008.
12/15/06
The "BUSREP" project (Strategies for Better User
Representation in urban public transport) is extended until the end of
2007. Topics for the coming year are the perception of different quality
standards, the role of mediation and dispute resolution bodies and
further publications."
03/18/06
nexus-employees at European Passengers' Federation at Maastricht ... more
03/08/06
The international workshop Sustainable Hyderabad in Hyderabad/India was a great
success. The Indian-German-American Consortium had fruitful meetings
with local partners and with politcal representatives of the
Municipality, the State of Andra Pradesh and the Federal Government. The
seven tri-national pilot project teams of the consortium made a big step
toward realisation of their specific plans.
Megacity project: efforts on for sustainable progress - The Hindu (03.03.06)]
International workshop on 'Megacity Project, Hyderabad' inaugurated - The Hindu (03.03.06)
02/07/06
EU-funded research Project (*Specific support action, FP6-2004-IST-4)
E-government for LOw Socio-economic sTatus groups (ELOST)"
did start. Kick-off meeting was held in Tel Aviv on February 6-7, 2006. Duration: 1/2006 – 12/2007
12/01/2005
nexus develops models for young persons and families’ life in the countryside. ... more
09/29/05
Conference
Berlin, 29.-30. September 2005
More customers through more participation?
Strategies and concepts for the dialogue between public transport passengers and operators
The position of public transport users has traditionally been weak compared to the consumers' situation on many other markets. This is due to two main reasons: Public transport is dominated by monopoly conditions and a strong political influence on the service provided. In most countries, provision is highly regulated, but consumer protection - in particular in case of delays and other service malfunctions - has often been lacking. However, to bear in mind user interests is essential for the acceptance of public transport as an alternative to the car and a contribution to the balanced and sustainable development of tomorrow's conurbations. These interests must be given due consideration on the planning, operational and customer service level. Issues and approaches for the involvement and representation of public transport users will be discussed on a two-day conference organised as part of the BUSREP project.
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