Second General Assembly of the METPEX Project

After 11 months of activities in the frame of METPEX (MEasurement Tool to determine the quality of Passenger EXperience) project, the second General Assembly was held on 3-4 October 2013 in Thessaloniki. The meeting was organized by Tero Consulting and SBOING and took place at the Mediterranean hotel premises. The two-day consortium meeting was led by the coordinator from Coventry University and was attended by the research teams of the 15 European partner organizations of the METPEX project. The General Assembly meeting marked the completion of the first year of the project and its main objective was to review progress against project objectives and the planning of the second year activities.

The discussions focused on how the methodological approach followed since now, addressed effectively the key research questions of METPEX. In particular, the participants discussed in detail the tasks of the different work packages performed, the planned activities for the forthcoming period, the administrative and management procedures as well as the dissemination strategy.  During the meeting a reminder of the project objectives has been given and the specific objectives that were partially reached by the implemented activities of the first year have been highlighted.  Also, the participants discussed extensively the set of factors that need to be included in the instruments measuring passenger experience and the demonstration of the METPEX tool in the eight cities across Europe.