Medium-sized public-transport-city in the future

Public transport in Finland is at its most competitive in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. In other cities, its share of motor vehicle journeys is much smaller. New product concepts and administrative structures are called for. In the Helsinki region, 38 percent of motor vehicle journeys are made on public transport while the figure in other large cities (pop.> 120,000) is sixteen percent and only 9-14 percent in medium-sized cities (pop. 50,000-120,000). How might public transport services be kept available in medium-sized cities against a backdrop on increasingly fragmented urban structure and a growing rate of motorisation? At the same time, the emphasis in people´s attitudes is shifting more and more towards individualistic values. We need new product concepts that meet popular demand, but above all we need to analyse whether the existing administrative structures of the public transport system provide and adequate foundation for evaluation so that requisite changes can be made.