Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion
Dr. Maria Chiara Leva:
I might return to a point the Deputy made earlier. It is important we do not sideline things that, potentially, we do not know about. I mentioned earlier the areas around Barcelona. In the suburban borderline rural area, there are flexible, on-demand public transport services. Although, normally, renting a car is not seen as a form of public transport, in that town it can be used to collect smaller pockets of people. There are other European projects that are working in this area and there is an Interreg fund with a policy brief relating to the possibility of designing flexible and feasible on-demand transport solutions for rural areas, and that is definitely worth considering.
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