Intelligent Roads": State of Play

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Intelligent Roads" State of Play Future
Perspectives

• The viewpoint of cities regions
• Suzanne Hoadley, Polis

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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Traffic management
• Most cities and towns are equipped with UTC
  systems
• Why?
• To best manage different users of road space
  (pedestrians, cyclist, drivers and public
  transport) main difference between highway and
  urban road network
• To optimise traffic flow at all times
• Traffic control centres
• Integrated UTC centres, eg, Berlin (PT road
  operators under one roof).
• Other stakeholders and services, eg, transport
  police in London (incident management), observing
  public disorder (Birmingham)

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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Traffic management
• Data gathering
• Sources local and highway authorities, transport
  police, automobile clubs, buses/trams, events,
• Technologies CCTV, loops, eye in the sky,
  floating vehicle data (eg, Surrey CC)
• Delivery mechanisms transport authority alone or
  public-private partnerships, eg, VMZ Berlin,

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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Demand management strategies
• Approaches
• Road pricing/tolling, eg, London, Trondheim
• Access restrictions, eg, Rome
• Similar policy objectives (reduce congestion in
  city centre) but different methods
• Technologies from simple (ANPR) to sophisticated
  (GPS)
• London Rome ANPR
• Why? simple, proven technology
• Accuracy 90 London 98 Rome
• London trials of tag beacon medium-term
  objective differentiated pricing (GPS)

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Some intelligent users reactions
Alcune reazioni
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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Demand management strategies
• Wider developments
• Locally
• More and more cities considering road pricing
  and/or access restrictions as a tool to combat
  congestion
• European level
• Infrastructure charging directive
• Interoperability directive
• (subsidiarity interuban network only but apply
  defacto to cities)
• National initiatives
• Germany and UK national lorry road user charging

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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Real-time network information
• Road network
• Interfaces VMS, Internet, SMS, on-board
• Real-time but also working on predictive
  information
• Reroute journey or choose alternative travel mode
• Parking information guidance
• Information on parking space availability (VMS)
• Route guidance
• Prebooking services (Internet)

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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Real-time Public Transport (PT) information
  priority
• Interfaces PT stops (LCD displays, Göteborg),
  Internet, public screens/kiosks (eg, Bristol
  shopping centre hospital), SMS (eg, Hellobus,
  Bologna)
• PT priority at signals and bus-lane enforcement
• Technology AVL (GPS or sensors) CCTV

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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Smartcards
• Aims to facilite PT use and intermodality
• Eg, London electronic purse (Oyster card)
  contactless card holding season passes and pay as
  you go
• Multifunctional Smartcards
• to pay for other transport services (eg, tolls)
• Extend to other services, eg, bankcard, municipal
  services (library card, etc)

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Main ITS applications in cities/regions

• Improving safety
• Incident detection and management
• Speed and red-light camera enforcement
• Improving environment
• Monitoring of air quality and adapting traffic
  management strategy accordingly (HEAVEN project)
• Journey planning
• Few (if any) offer real-time journey planning but
  working towards it

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Main challenges

• Legacy systems
• Difficult to retrofit ITS applications to bespoke
  or older UTC systems, eg, Paris bus priority
• Integration
• Problem systems from different suppliers can
  rarely talk to eachother
• Solutions common/open platforms (eg, UTMC,
  DATEX, etc protocols but not yet standards)

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Main challenges

• Funding
• Benefits of UTC well established
• Not the case for other ITS applications
• Main issue WHO SHOULD PAY?
• Authorities, industry or public?
• CBA should consider impact of ITS on broader
  transport policy objectives, eg
• contribution to modal shift (RT PT information,
  bus priority, journey planners, road network
  information)
• reduced congestion (road network information)
• air quality improvements, eg, HEAVEN DSS
• Potential solution PPP, eg, MATTISSEM3

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Future perspectives

• Cooperative vehicle infrastructure systems (CVIS)
• Local authority perspective potentially huge
  benefits but long-term vision (20 years)
• Early examples, Intelligent Speed Adaptation
  (ISA)
• Wider security benefits
• Remotely stopping a vehicle instead of dangerous
  police pursuit
• Current ANPR technology can reveal unlicensed,
  uninsured vehicles
• Main concerns
• Car manufacturers imposing technology on
  infrastructure operators
• Liability who responsible if technology fails?

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Future perspectives

• Benefits of GPS/Galileo for cities/regions
• Managing municipal fleets
• Improve reliability of real-time PT information
• Less infrastructure intensive for bus priority
• Urban road pricing
• Fairer system of charging (according to time,
  distance and journey)
• Incident detection managment

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What is Polis ?

• A network of cities and regions working in the
  field of transport
• 70 members
• Partnerships with research centres and industry
• founded in 1989
• President AMT Genoa (Italy)
• based in Brussels with a staff of 7
• Aim to promote innovation in transport both at
  technical and organisational level, through
• learning from one other (sharing experiences
  solutions)
• implementing innovative solutions (promoting
  innovative solutions and facilitating access to
  EU RTD projects)
• promoting sustainable mobility (voice of cities
  and regions vis-à-vis European ins

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Polis in support of ITS

• ITS is a core activity of Polis
• Many members previously currently involved in
  EU-funded RTD projects in field of ITS
• Current priorities
• Promote take-up of ITS solutions
• Faciliate exchange of experiences
• Current activities
• Traffic efficiency WG
• Aims to learn from best practice, develop a
  vision for the future, dialogue with the
  Commission on perpsectives for cities (CVIS, etc)
  and support required

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• Thank you
• For more information
• shoadley_at_polis-online.org
• www.polis-online.org