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RATIONAL USE OF ENERGY BEST PRACTICE GUIDE FOR URBAN
PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN EUROPEAN CITIES

RUBENS is a research project designed and implemented by a team of European experts, led and co-ordinated by TIS.PT with the financial support from the European Commission's Directorate General for Energy and Transport SAVE II programme. The RUBENS team further includes ISIS (Italy), Enviros March (UK) and Dopravni Podnik (Czech Republic). The project started in January 2000 and finished at the end of January 2001.
The ultimate objective of RUBENS is to promote rational use of energy in urban public transport, through the identification, assestment and dissemination of best practice.
The key features of the project are: i) in depth survey of existing literature on energy efficiency in European urban public transport, and comprehensive review of interviews with experts in the field, together with an in-depth analysis of selected cases, ii) production of an energy-performance self-assessment guide for public transport operators in the field of rational energy use in public transport and iii) large-scale dissemination campaign to promote the use of benchmarking and Best Practice, including full implementation and testing of the self-assessment methodology in Prague.
The results of phase 1 are collected in the RUBENS Data Base, a comprehensive review of implemented or planned best practices in the field of rational use of energy and emission reduction for urban public transport companies. The database is user friendly and contains a wide range of research options (country, city, mode, actors involved and typology of intervention) to allow a rapid and efficient consultation. Each measure is described, and a set of ancillary information is provided when available (such as financial and technical details). The typology of practices covered is very differentiated, including interventions on vehicles technology and fuelling, fleet management, drivers training, buildings energy consumption, infrastructure design, traffic management schemes, but also energy and environmental monitoring and accounting and more integrated packages of measures.

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