The Urban Transport Benchmarking Initiative has sought to apply the concept of benchmarking to the urban transport systems present in cities across the EU, including the New Member States. This is in keeping with the European Unions policy approach which places considerable importance upon the role that attractive, efficient local and regional transport systems can play in the economic development and social cohesion of the EU.

In the field of urban transport the exchange and promotion of best practices is one of the main policy tools that the European Commission possesses. The Urban Transport Benchmarking initiative has therefore compared the differences between the transport systems of participating cities in order to identify and promote interesting practices in urban transport.

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