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The Planning and roll-out of accessible and human-centred public transport services in Europe The cities’ perspectiveKaren Vancluysen, Polis

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What is Polis ?

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Network

65 European cities & regions

Innovation

Sustainable urban mobility

Exchange of experiences

European Initiatives

European Institutions

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The planning challenge

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• Smart Governance

• Smart Economy

• Smart Mobility

• Smart Environment

• Smart People

• Smart Living

Integrated planning: the Smart Cities concept

Source: Mapping Smart Cities, EP, 2014 – TU Wien model

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http://www.mobilityplans.eu/docs/SUMP_guidelines_web0.pdf

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Integrated planning: the SUMP concept

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Planning a public transport system based on the needs of 3 PT stakeholders

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Cost efficiencyFleet management tools /ITSKnowledge about costumerTicketing

Cost efficiencyFleet management tools /ITSKnowledge about costumerTicketing

Travel informationAffordable journeyComfortable journey AccessibilitySafety and security

Travel informationAffordable journeyComfortable journey AccessibilitySafety and security

Value for moneyAbility to controlPT as tool to reach societal goals: Economic development, energy and environment, social equity, accessibility

Value for moneyAbility to controlPT as tool to reach societal goals: Economic development, energy and environment, social equity, accessibility

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The delivery challenge

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Establishing the optimal delivery structure

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• Promoting and consolidating new approaches for the establishment of PTAs as convergence centres of expertise

• www.eptaproject.eu

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Metropolitan public transport authorities

• Cooperation platforms between different local authorities to provide quality public transport

• Efficient management of the PT system through gathering key competences at one point, thus supporting LAs in managing transport systems

• Better because integrated information

• More intuitive ticketing: single ticket

• Better network design: coordinated subsystems

• Lower management costs

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The information challenge

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Pictures TfL, MyWay

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Finding common ground between European cities and regions

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Exploitation of projectBus System Innovations

Innovation strategy

Quality Label

A Vision: EBSF and EBSF II

Recognised as reference project for European Bus System research:•an intelligent system: making efficient use of information, and providing different bus system solutions adapted to specific needs of all stakeholders•with innovative vehicles : providing im-proved comfort and accessibility for drivers and passengers, making smart use of energy on board•integrated in European urban scenarios: adapted to modern and historical cities, taking into account future mobility trends, featuring new services for passengers and operators

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Infomobility services: POLITE

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Enhancing attractiveness and thus use of public transport through better travel information

•support co-modality, efficient use of various modes separately and in synergy, to optimise public transport options

•assist public sector and decision makers by providing knowledge and skills related to policies for infomobility measures deployment

•focus attention on various already existing and proven good practice solutions in Europe

•stimulate coordinated implementation of interoperable ITS for PT across borders

•www.polite-project.eu

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Personalised travel planning: MyWay

European Smart Mobility Resource ManagerMultimodal journey planner with integrated ticket purchasing

and automatic travel readjustments that encourages cleaner modes of transport.

• Improved real journey times• Reduced congestion• Increased multi-modal split• Three test sites:

• Berlin (DE), Catalonia (ES) and Trikala (GR)

• Policy & research recommendations• Business models• http://myway-project.eu

• 09/2013– 02/2016

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Intermodality: NODES

• Interchanges play a key role in the integration of the urban mobility system and in enabling good intermodal solutions• Their efficiency and sustainability is therefore essential to achieve

sustainable transport objectives in Europe• Building a toolbox to support European cities in the design and operation of

new or upgraded interchanges• As a way to provide greater support, services and satisfaction to

travellers and users, as well as to interchange operators and those societal and economic actors depending on the efficiency of interchange operations

• Five key areas:• Land use & Infrastructure, design, intermodality & ICT, management and

business models, energy & environment• www.nodes-interchanges.eu

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Final conference: 22 September!

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Quality Assurance: ENERQI

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• Improving public transport by daily quality observations of customers

• http://enerqi-online.eu

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Marketing research as optimisation tool in PT

• Marketing research can be used for evaluation and improvement purposes and for predicting future changes in transport behaviour

• Effective way of recognising future and current market needs

• Valuable support tool for transport modelling and sustainable urban mobility planning

• Improves the efficiency of public expenditure

• Better evaluation and monitoring of quality of services

• Can be low-cost!

• Degustibus Bologna

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Degustibus in Bologna

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EU: Remaining and new challenges

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New mobility service providers

Mobility as a ServiceAccessible

infrastructures

New mobility service providers

Mobility as a ServiceAccessible

infrastructures

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More information

• The social and economic potential of smart solutions for accessible transport for older people

• Speakers: Age-Platform, Flanders Region, Noord-Brabant, Gelderland, Liverpool

• Tuesday 13 October 2015

Polis

Karen Vancluysen

+32 2 5005670

kvancluysen@polisnetwork.eu

www.polisnetwork.eu