Cities of the future: towards low carbon economies

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• "Cities of the future towards low carbon
  economies"
• MODERN
• MObility, Development and Energy use ReductioN
• Public Transport City Tour in Craiova
• 07 of May 2012
• Gabriel Vladut
• Project Coordinator

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CIVITAS City-Vitality-Sustainability For a
cleaner and efficient transport in cities

• Craiova The first town in Romania that
  coordinates a consortium of municipalities at
  European level.

MODERN
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Civitas Plus Program MODERN Mission

• The increase of life quality in cities by
  reducing pollution (CO2 emissions) generated by
  transport, of dependency of gasoline and diesel,
  the implementation of some reduction measures of
  energy consumptions, respect to the environment.

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Participants
MODERN
22 Partners connected to Municipalities from
(3) Craiova, Romania, (4) Brescia, Italy, (5)
Vitoria, Spain, (6) Coimbra, Portugal And
support units from (2) Belgium (2) Italy

• Public authorities Town Halls
• Public transport operators
• Research units
• Universities
• Non-profit organisations
• SMEs

Budget of the MODERN Project 15 million Euros
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Considerations
MODERN

• The implementation of the MODERN Project
  co-financed by the European Commission will bring
  the increase of life quality in cities by traffic
  decongestion, the pollution reduction, of urban
  noise, of energy consumption, and the promotion
  of a life style based on the car dependency
  reduction.
• The achieving of these objectives chime with the
  communitarian purpose that in 2020 to reach 20
  consumption from renewable energy sources,
  minimum 10 use of renewable sources in
  transport, the improvement of the energetic
  efficiency with 20 and 20 reduction of
  greenhouse effect.
• The objectives of the MODERN project are in
  perfect accordance with the EU Green Paper
  document and Action Plan regarding the public
  transport.

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Integrated measures in European policies
MODERN

• The measures of the project outline a balance
  between the large scale actions of the
  application based on the existence and the
  commercialization of the available technologies,
  such as
• The renewal of the public transport with ecologic
  vehicles,
• Technological systems for the traffic
  administration and info mobility,
• Access restrictions and interchangeable systems,
• With the use of the advance methodologies
• Energy saving,
• Alternative fuels,
• Load distribution.
• The first type of actions is the most important
  from the structure of the project with a massive
  impact over the state of the cities, while the
  second contributes to the knowledge
  amplification, to the increase of the qualitative
  level of the mobility instruments and will set
  the bases of ulterior developments.

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Objectives (1/2)

• The increase of the quality and efficiency of the
  public transport system (from the point of view
  of the environment and services), increasing the
  number of users.
• The limit of energy loss and the sustaining of
  using the ecologic fuels between citizens.
• Sustaining the improvement effort of the public
  transport through a series of measures capable of
  limiting the use of private cars.
• The decrease of the number of road accidents.

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Objectives (2/2)

• Offering alternatives for types of non-polluting
  mobility (first the bicycle) improving the safety
  and increasing the life limit of users.
• The increase of the technological endowment of
  the cities as means of sustaining smarter
  mobility policies and as service for the
  citizens.
• Dissemination, as much as possible, of a
  sustainable environment among citizens and the
  increase of the degree of making aware the
  society over the importance of these themes.

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MODERN A comprehensive approach
Project for large scale demonstration, TTI,
involving municipalities
Demo
Investment
Dissemination
Research
Independent evaluation External monitoring
European large scale awareness dissemination
Development of recommendations regarding
policies Result Image and experience at European
level
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Craiova Horizontal activities
MODERN

• 1) Alternative fuels environment-clean
  vehicles and energetic efficient
• Buses fueled with bio-diesel and
  efficient-driven trams with the reduction of the
  energetic consumptions.
• 2) Collective transport and its integration in
  other alternatives
• Planning of the lines extension around the city
• E-ticketing integrated system for trams and
  buses.
• 3) Management strategies flexible access to the
  centre of the city using maxi-taxi
• 4) Mobility management, marketing, information
  and education
• The correlation of the transport contracts
  between the main companies and PTC, through a
  software and an operational map program in order
  to obtain green light in public transport

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Horizontal activities (2)
MODERN

• 5) Safe and solid infrastructure, efficient means
  of transport
• Cooperation with the police, the creation of a
  monitoring centre, the buses/ trams endowment
  with video cameras using the GPS, GPRS systems.
• 6) New mobility services for the public transport
  vehicles a less car- dependent lifestyle.
• Contracts - specific users (the industrial areas
  from the East-West / Craiova)
• 7) Logistics for urban goods transport, new
  concepts for a better distribution
• A basic plan for a logistics connecting node
  special stations for bus and tram and a transport
  program for 4 new built hypermarkets in Craiova.
• 8) Innovative telematics systems for traffic
  management
• Application GPS, GPRS info mobility and
  management instrument for data gathering rapid
  transit line for buses preferential traffic
  light rules

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Implemented systems
MODERN

• Components for adapting 10 buses to bio-diesel
• 9 efficiently-driven trams with the reduction of
  energetic consumption
• 80 buses and 27 trams, each endowed with tickets
  / cards validators, GPS and board computers,
  connected to a traffic management centre
  (dispatch)
• 30 automated machines for tickets / cards
  connected to the dispatch
• 20 stations endowed with electronic panels
• 15 buses and 10 stations endowed with video
  surveillance system
• 3 electronic access barriers in the central area
  of the city
• Traffic management centre (dispatch)

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Chopers advanteges and functions

• Assures the input for the corresponding
  electrical engines for the run-brake regime
• CANopen communication with the board computer for
  commands and for the monitoring of the status of
  the tram
• Vehicle maintenance data storage (hours of
  function, kilometers, maximum speed, minor errors
  or critical errors, etc.).
• Diagnosis system, data transmission to a
  computer, fault detection, off-line analysis.
• Some of the main advantages- energy economy
  with up to 30-40- increase of reliability-
  assisted maintenance- increase of safety in
  exploitation and comfort for passengers

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Results
In 2010, at Malmo, Sweden, during the CIVITAS
Forum, Craiova was nominated as European
Innovative City, for technological innovation on
urban green transport.
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