OBJECTIVES AND SKILLS

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URBAN TRAFFIC MANAGEMENTAND RESTRAINT
Transparencies 2003
EU-funded Urban Transport Research Project Results
www.eu-portal.net
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DEFINITION OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

• The term Traffic Management represents the
  process of adjusting or adapting the use of an
  existing road system to meet specified objectives
  without resorting to substantial new road
  construction.
• Thus this covers a large field involving both
  traffic systems and urban development issues.
  This field also has strong links with both Civil
  Engineering and Urban Planning.

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TRANSPORT POLICY OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

• This concept generally integrates the notion of
  the need for
• An efficient transport system (serving all
  mobility/accessibility needs)
• A safer transport environment
• Protection of the environment
• Reduction of energy consumption
• Improvement of quality of life/economy
• These general objectives can be translated into
  more specific and quantifiable goals

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Source Taken from the Privilege Project Final
Report - Rating of Importance of Requirements
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• General Transport Systems Optimisation
• Introduce/promote travel needs avoidance
  measures
• Optimise infrastructure performance
• Optimise infrastructure utilisation
• Create/promote multi-modal solutions

• Public Transport (PT) Oriented Strategies
• Create complete and fully integrated systems
• Introduce new PT links/services/modes
• Improve PT infrastructure and information systems
• Introduce new priority vehicles systems
• Design and control of road networks in favour of
  PT and other priority vehicles
• Increase public awareness / acceptance of Public
  Transport
• Priority Vehicles (taxis, delivery/)
• Oriented Strategies

• Pedestrians (Ped) Oriented strategies
• Create comprehensive / usable ped. / cyc
  infrastructures
• Shift accessibility priorities towards
  pedestrians and cyclists
• Reduce severity of ped-cyc/vehicles conflicts
• Change ped/cyc/vehicles on- route dangerous
  behaviour
• Change the ped/cyc modes status/awareness
• Cyclists (Cyc) Oriented Strategies

Basic Strategies
Promote overall travel demand /rate of growth
reduction
Improve systems performance

• Sustainable Transport Policies
• Objectives
• Efficiency
• Reduction of energy consumption
• Protection of the environment

Promote sustainable modes
Increase intermodality
Positively discriminate sustainable modes

• Private motorised vehicles oriented strategies
• Increase journeys costs/duration/distances
• Limit access to sensitive areas

Figure Transport Policy Objectives and Strategies
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ROAD USER GROUPS CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS

• Emergency vehicles (ambulances, police cars and
  fire engines)
• Public transport (trams, light rail and buses)
• Coaches
• Taxis
• High occupancy vehicles
• Commercial and domestic services
• Trucks (other than commercial and domestic
  services)
• Bicycles
• Pedestrians
• Privately used cars
• Privately used motorcycles

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CLASSIFIED LIST OF MEASURES

• General Transport Systems directed Strategies and
  Measures
• Demand Oriented Measures
• Road networks performance optimisation
• Road networks utilization optimisation
• PT and Other Priority Motorised Users oriented
  Strategies and Measures
• Introduce new public transport links/services/mode
  s
• Introduce new priority vehicles systems
• Improve public transport infrastructures
• Improve public transport information systems
• Change the design of a road network in favour of
  PT and other Priority Vehicles
• Change the control of a road network in favour of
  PT and other Priority Users

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CLASSIFIED LIST OF MEASURES

• Strategies and Measures for general private
  motorised vehicles
• Limit private vehicles access to sensitive
  areas
• Increase generalized costs for private vehicles
• Create a comprehensive/better pedestrian
  infrastructure
• Shift accessibility priorities towards
  pedestrians
• Reduce severity of Ped/Veh conflicts by reducing
  vehicles speeds
• Pedestrian Oriented Strategies and Measures
• Create a comprehensive/better pedestrian
  infrastructure
• Shift accessibility priorities towards
  pedestrians
• Reduce severity of Ped/Veh conflicts by reducing
  vehicles speeds
• Reduce Ped/Veh number and severity of conflicts
  with improved crossings
• Reduce Pedestrian delays at crossings by shifting
  priorities between modes
• Create better/more comfortable interfacing/resting
  /waiting facilities
• Change the Status/awareness of the pedestrian
  mode
• Change pedestrians/drivers on-route dangerous
  behaviour

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CLASSIFIED LIST OF MEASURES

• Cyclists Oriented Strategies and Measures
• Create a comprehensive/usable cyclist
  infrastructure
• General improvement of cyclists system
• Shift accessibility priorities towards bicycles
• Reduce severity of Cyclist/Vehicle conflicts
• Reduce cyclists delays at crossings
• Change the status/awareness of the cyclist
  mode
• Change cyclist/drivers on-route dangerous
  behaviour

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INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS BASIC DESIGN AND
APPLICABILITY PRINCIPLES

• Basic optimisation principles for transport
  systems
• Accessibility and mobility conditions, providing
  better quality of life, environmental conditions
  and energy consumption efficiency.
• Emphasis on Multimode systems such as ParkRide,
  KissRide, BikeRide or Car Pooling.
• Integrated implementation of solutions
• Optimisation of private vehicles,
• Public transport and other priority vehicles
  transport infrastructure performance
• Pedestrian and bicycle support systems
• Restriction measures directed to the private
  car mode
• Positive discrimination measures towards the more
  sustainable modes.
• Geographical dimension

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INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS BASIC DESIGN AND
APPLICABILITY PRINCIPLES

• General principles for the design of packages of
  measures
• City type
• Packages of measures linked together
• Highly visible measures
• Enforcement
• System based integration principles
• Optimisation of the performance of the road
  system
• Positive measures applied to sustainable modes
• Measures directed at restricting the usage of the
  private car
• Integrating different modes in a coherent
  transport policy
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EXAMPLES ICARO Project (4th Framework) - Madrid
Modelling Demonstration HOV Lane Bus Lane
ICARO National Evaluation Report Madrid
modelling demonstration. Polytechnic University
of Madrid, Transport Department, Jan. 1999.
Andres Monzon. Page 5
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EXAMPLES INCOME Project(4th Framework) Public
Transport Priority UTC London
INCOME - Annex A to Final Report Technical
Description, Results and Recommendations, Page A7
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EXAMPLES INCOME Project (4th Framework) -
London Integration of Public Transport Priority
and AVL
INCOME - Final Report Pages 13,14