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Results and development
Andrea Campagna, CTL – Sapienza
Margherita Ambrosi, Municipality of Perugia
Outline
• The LIMIT4WEDA project
• Origin of the project
• Project description and results
• Conclusions and further developments
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LIMIT4WEDA
• Light Mobility and Information Technologies
FOR Weak Demand Areas (MED programme,
2010-2013)
• To enhance, support, integrate local public
transport making it more flexible and less
expensive
• Experimentation of infomobility, new
technologies and sensitization of decision
makers
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Origin of the project: CHALLENGES
• Ageing population, shrinking of cities,
suburbanisation, urban sprawl.
• Supremacy of car-based mobility and oil
dependency.
• Request of alternative mobility to cars.
• Increase of transport demand.
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Origin of the project: OPPORTUNITIES
• More efficient transportation technologies,
such as electric vehicles.
• Car sharing services: from private ownership
to collaborative consumption.
• Modal shifts toward walking, cycling or
public transportation.
• Strategic urban planning.
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Origin of the project: WEAK DEMAND AREAS
• Traditional scheduled public transport
services is very expensive and inefficient in
WDA:
– Requires the articulation of different routes with several stops.
– Standard vehicles (buses) can travel the most of the route with a few people on board.
• Need of unconventional and/or innovative
transport modes and services
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Origin of the project: ACCESSIBILITY
• Low demand for public transport services.
• The issue of public transport in rural areas
does not play an important role in policies.
• Innovative and flexible transport systems to
increase mobility for rural dwellers.
• Unconventional public transport services to
ensure accessibility to municipal services to
people not living in urban centers.
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Partnership
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LAZIO REGION
PERUGIA
MIEMA
PAVIA
BIC EPIRUS
AEM
BNC
MURCIA
CCEIA
TROODOS
Approach
• A holistic approach used to individuate both
success factors and barriers to the real
implementation of solutions:
– Analysis of past and current experiences.
– Investigation of implementation processes.
– Pilot projects and transferability analysis.
• Guidelines for decision makers.
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Achievements of the project
• How to identify and characterize WDAs
• Characteristics of solutions for WDAs
• Types of innovative solutions and experiences
in EU
• Legal framework analysis
• Pilot projects of specific solutions
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Example of WDAs identification
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Latium, 2009
Considering:
- Resident
population
- Hamlets and
scattered houses
- Daily movements
Clustering:
- According to
distances
- Specific criteria
for priorities
Characteristics of innovative solutions
• Demand reponsive
– In depth demand forecast required.
– Flexibilty can led savings.
• Availability to share
– Car-sharing, ride-sharing
– Involves the users to change mindset
• Intermodal and multipurpose
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Innovative experiences in EU
• Integrated ticketing
• Infomobility
• On-demand transport services
• Sharing-based systems
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Examples: Integrated ticketing
• Travel using several transport
modes and/or several transport
operators within the same mode
• One ticket with integrated
information, reservation and
sales systems
• High-level of public-private
coordination and co-operation
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Examples: Infomobility
• Generally refers to the
provision of en-route travelling
information to public
transport users
• Infomobility enhances
convenience and confidence
when travelling with various
transport modes
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Examples: on-demand transport services
• Adapt itineraries and
timetables to suit specific
transport demands
• Improve accessibility, reduce
social exclusion, reduce costs
• Generally need public co-
funding
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Examples: sharing-based systems
• Carpooling, carsharing or, more
in general, ridesharing, based on
the sharing of car journeys so
that more than one person
travels in a car.
• Offer individuals many of the
benefits of personal vehicle use
(e.g., convenience, flexibility)
without the costs and hassles of
ownership
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BürgerservicePendlernetz
PILOT PROJECTS of LIMIT4WEDA
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CAR-POOLING
La Valletta (Malta)
TROODOS EXPRESS
Troodos (Cyprus)
«C’ENTRO IN BICI»
Pavia (Italy)
PRONTOBUS
Perugia (Italy)
PILOT PROJECTS
• Infomobility to provide
alternative innovative
transport applications
from Weak Demand
Areas to the
administrative centre of
Valletta and Floriana
• Internet based car-
pooling network
operated by MIEMA,
Malta
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CAR-POOLING
PILOT PROJECTS
• Troodos Regional Tourism
Board and Cyprus Center for
European and International
Affairs
• Pilot project to enable the
travel to the region of
Troodos and within, through
an infomobility system made
of thematic centres,
infopoints, to complement
dedicated bus routes
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TROODOS EXPRESS
PILOT PROJECTS
• The Province of Pavia
implemented a pilot bike
sharing system in
Rivanazzano Terme
• Public Bicycle System for
workers, commuters,
residents, students, and
visitors in the Oltrepo
Pavese rural area
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«C’ENTRO IN BICI»
PILOT PROJECTS
• On-demand bus
service
• Operated by the
Municipality of
Perugia
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PRONTOBUS
PRONTOBUS: scenario
• Higher number of inhabitants,
corresponding to more
potential user of the service
• Conventional bus service
already operating, with the
possibility to convert it into a
more flexible system
• Interchange node in san Marco,
where users can find high
frequency conventional bus
service connecting to the main
destination in the urban area
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PERUGIA
SAN
MARCO
Cenerente
Canneto
Colle Umberto
Maestrello
S. Giovanni del
Pantano
PRONTOBUS: the pilot service
• An innovative service completely flexible on demand:
• No fixed timetable nor fixed paths
• Users book the service through a call center by
choosing the place and time of departure/arrival
• A software managed by the operator of the call center
sending messages to a terminal onboard the bus
• Two kinds of booking:
– an “early” booking
– a “real time” booking
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PRONTOBUS: concept of the service
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USERS
MUNICIPALITY OF PERUGIA
CONTACT
CENTRE
BACK OFFICE
CONTROL ROOM
TRANSPORT SERVICES
PRONTOBUS: components
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Booking
Planning
Executing
Monitoring
PRONTOBUS: advantages
• The preservation of usual users already close
to the previous traditional service
• Temporal flexibility, very effective to capture
occasional users
• Spatial flexibility, very strategic in an area
with a road network with low geometric
features
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PRONTOBUS: analysis of results
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Before After
Pax/day 912 125
Km/day 518 350
Pax/km 1,76 2,93
Cost/km 2,03 1,59
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GUIDELINES
• To provide the practitioners a new approach
transport services in WDAs
• They offer how:
– To understand and characterize WDAs
– To be aware of innovative transport solutions, their
pros and cons
– To acquire methods to evaluate the transferability
– To acquire methods to measure the accessibility
• They collected case histories
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CONCLUSIONS
• LIMIT4WEDA as
– An experience of TERRITORIAL COOPERATION:
different countries having similar problems work
together to find out and share innovative
solutions
– An experience of AWARENESS RAISING: users
and decision makers acknowledged the benefits
of alternative transport modes
– An environment for FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
partners exlpoited their experiences or are up to
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Thanks for your attention!
Andrea Campagna, CTL – Sapienza
Margherita Ambrosi, Municipality of Perugia
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