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Guidelines for deployment of urban ITS

Dorota SzeligowskaEuropean Commission – DG MOVE

EMTA General Meeting – Copenhagen18/04/2013

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Urban mobility in the EU

• There is a renewed focus on the urban dimension in European transport policy

• The Transport White Paper 2001 "European transport policy for 2010" underscored the importance of urban dimension of the development of truly European transport system

• Green Paper "Towards a new culture for urban mobility" has put urban mobility high on the EU's political agenda

• The White Paper on Transport 2011 "Towards a single European transport area" suggested a number of initiatives which relate to urban mobility and anticipate ITS applications, e.g.:

• Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (Initiative 31)

• An EU framework for urban road user charging and access restriction schemes (Initiative 32)

• A strategy for near- ‘zero-emission urban logistics’ 2030 (Initiative 33)

• Europe2020 Strategy highlighted the crucial importance of urban transport not only for sustainable urban development but also for the achievement of European and global policy goals in terms of resource efficiency, for instance.

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Urban ITS

The question of deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in urban regions, in order to contribute to European transport policy goals, has been featured in two European Action Plans:

•The ITS Action Plan (COM (2008) 886) foresees the set-up of a specific ITS collaboration platform to promote ITS initiatives in the area of urban mobility (Action 6.4).

•The Action Plan on Urban Mobility (COM (2009) 490) foresees that the Commission will offer assistance on ITS applications for urban mobility, possibly in form of a guidance document, to complement the ITS Action Plan (Action 20).

These provisions resulted in the creation of the Urban ITS Expert Group

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Urban ITS Expert Group - Introduction

• The Urban ITS Platform suggested by the ITS Action Plan was implemented as a Commission Expert Group

• The Urban ITS Expert Group was formed in December 2010 for the duration of 24 months, during which it held 8 meetings (the last meeting and adoption of deliverables of the Expert Group took place on 18 December 2012).

• It was composed of 25 members from relevant stakeholder groups who were nominated by relevant stakeholders associations: national&local authorities, public transport authorities&operators, travel information providers, research, ITS industry, European&local standardisation organisms, consultancies

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Urban ITS Expert Group - TasksThere are four key applications that are covered by the Expert Group work that were selected during a consultative stakeholder workshop in March 2010:

• Traffic and Travel Information

• Smart Ticketing

• Traffic Management

• Urban Logistics

Main tasks and outcomes of the work of the Expert Group:• Identification and exchange of best practices for the key applications of

urban ITS • Elaboration of Guidelines for deployment of the key applications of

urban ITS (with specific regard to interoperability and continuity of services)• Identification of possible need for further standardisation on a European

level

All freely available at http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/its/road/action_plan/its_for_urban_areas_en.htm

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Guidelines for deployment

• Addressing decision-makers, high-level rather than technical documents

• Identifying problems and challenges for urban mobility and for deployment of key applications

• Analyzing how ITS solutions can help to resolve these problems and achieve public policy goals

• Identifying relevant stakeholders and their roles• Identifying key points to foster deployment• Providing recommendations

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Multimodal Information Services guideline

Elements of definition:

•Information on all modes of transport (car, public transport, railway, bike, bike or car sharing services, car-pooling …)

•Allowing the users any combination of modes/services to go from A to B.

•Including historical, static, real time, … data, for all transport modes

Today MIS are ready to be largely deployed,

will have a great impact on behaviours

and will provide high level services to the citizens

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MIS – Recommendations

1. Cooperation between public and private sectors• When it comes to the exchange of data

• When it comes to the provision of Information service

• When it comes to fostering interoperability via the use of existing standards

2. Availability and access to data • Setting up a multimodal data set for each European city, controlled by the

public sector: harmonization and integration of all urban mobility data in a multimodal dataset

• Opening access to public data or services conditioned by the fact that resulting services are consistent with the public policy goals (of modal shift)

• Increase the quantity and quality of mobility data: deployment of monitoring devices, exchange of data between private and public entities and the management of the quality of the data or services

3. Communicate with travellers about the benefits of MMI, to achieve goals of modal shift policy

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Smart Ticketing guidelineSmart Ticketing is NOT necessarily about having ONE ticket for your journey but having ONE basket for SEVERAL tickets&services.

Main questions:-Propose to users complementary services

- In relation to their mobility (encourage multimodality, by making it simpler – personalised approach to information, fares and ticketing)

- In a wide multiservice approach (include services other than mobility related)

-Improve the image and efficiency of PT operators (enhance security, reduce fraud, modernise the image, reduce dwelling time, maintenance and distribution costs)

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Smart Ticketing – multiservice possibilities

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Smart Ticketing - recommendations• Define fare policy first – it can have an impact on implementation choice• New channels of sales/distribution/access might be cheaper, but not if run

in parallel with older ones – clear migration strategy needed (also regarding training of the staff and informing the public, and accommodating special needs: people without bank accounts or smart phones)

• Foster interoperability:• of contract – integrated ticket, very complex solution if many actors involved • of support – same medium for different tickets• use standards – link long-distance with last mile

• Combining different functionalities and services requires a robust governance structure

• Collecting statistical data can be useful for traffic management and travel information

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Traffic management guideline

• A transport system is smart if it can deal with new situations (congestion, modal integration, safety) efficiently, by linking data, in order to produce valuable information for transport users and operators.

• ITS toolbox can help traffic management in achieving local and global transport policy goals.

• Policy objectives Tactics Measures Operational technical equipment

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Traffic management - recommendations

• Need of multi-agency cooperation• Easier to lead projects, manage procurements, etc.• Foster interoperability and cross-border continuity

• Identify, define and allocate tasks (for project management and delivery)

• Focus on delivering services to the end users, and ensure that information conveyed to individuals optimises the overall management of the network

• Use benefits of automated systems at operational level (e.g. data processing and interpretation) to liberate humans for strategic tasks

• Use standards allowing for open platforms

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Next steps

• Support the promotion and wide dissemination of the Guidelines • Publication on the website, Presentation at events,

International cooperation activities, Publication of a brochure

• Use EU-demonstration projects as test bed for the validation/further development of the Guidelines

• Link the Guidelines with other Commission's initiatives • Urban Mobility Package, incl. SUMPs; MMIS Communication;

specifications on Multimodal information services under ITS Directive

• Pursue the work initiated by the Urban ITS Expert Group • on urban logistics, standardisation, etc.

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More information

.Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/index_en.htm

. ITS Action Plan and Directivehttp://ec.europa.eu/transport/its/road/

action_plan_en.htm

. ITS for Urban areashttp://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/

its/road/action_plan/its_for_urban_areas_en.htm

Thank you for your attention !