Resources
This page contains some useful presentations and information about Fare Free public transport across the world.
From the event on 29th September:
The public meeting “Winning free public transport” that Fare Free London held on Sunday 29th September 2024 was successful, with many interesting conversations had.
The speakers have given their permissions for their presentations to be shared, and these are linked below. The video (of the speakers only, not the audience) will also be shared soon. The agenda for the day is linked here: Agenda
Session 1: The case for free public transport: social justice and climate aims, and why transport workers support it.
Simon Pirani, Fare Free London
Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life
Session 2: What the academic research says: abolishing fares helps hit climate targets and transport policy aims
Drew Pearce, researcher of sustainable mobility and transport decarbonisation
Pearl Ahrens, Fare Free London
Session 3: International experience: the effects of free public transport, and how people have campaigned for it
Daniel Santini, transport researcher at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (by video link)
Jerome Serodio, National Coordination of Collectives for Free Public Transport, France
Ellie Harrison, Get Glasgow Moving, Scotland (by video link)
Mallige, Karnataka Janashakthi, India (by video link)
From our friends at Union pour la Gratuité et le Développement des Transports publics (France)
The four-page information sheet here.
From our friends at Transport for Quality of Life
Transport for Quality of Life website
Briefing: A Radical Transport Response to the Climate Emergency. (2019)