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Flexible Transport Services (FTS)-

from dawn till dusk.

Giorgio Fiorillo

SRM - Reti e Mobilità Srl BOLOGNA (IT)

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FTS Bologna • 01.07.2015 • Barcelona • Giorgio Fiorillo

SRM is the Public Transport

Authority in The Metropolitan area

of Bologna. It is a public owned

company that works on behalf of

the local government (the

Municipality and the Metropolitan

City of Bologna).

SRM buys the service, signs the

contract and controls the correct

performing of it.

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• 56 municipalities;

• 1.000.000 inhabitants;

• 2,5 millions movements/day;

• 21% modal share - TPL in Metropolita Area;

• 35% modal share - TPL in Bologna;

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Bologna public transport system:

2008

- 8 operators;

- 37,1 M km =

18,6M city urb. service+18,5M extra-urb;

- 81 M Euro;

- 107,7M passengers;

- 45M Euro fare income;

- 0,75 €/pax

- 22.000 annual ticket holders;

- 1.500 drivers;

- 1.000 buses;

- ~ 200 service lines.

2014

- 1 operator;

- 35 M km =

18,2M city urb. service+16,8M extra-urb;

- 83 M Euro;

- 123,3M passengers;

- 62M Euro fare income;

- 0,67 €/pax

- 71.000 annual ticket holders;

- 1.480 drivers;

- 970 buses;

- ~ 200 service lines.

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In the 2008 the

Municipality

asked us to start

a new service in

a small and low

dencity area to

connect, all day

long (6am-9pm),

the area to the

regular public

transport

service, with low

fare.

The request of the Municipality:

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Scheme of costs for traditional public transport.

Traditional bus Massive transport

Ma

xca

pa

city

cost

s

passenger

The operator proposed a traditional bus service with fixed

timetable for few people (not more than 50 pax per day). But it

was too expensive so we had to find a different solution.

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Three European projects have contributed to

the activation of the new service

development of a software platform for

bookings, made available by the agency (;

Implementation of the service as pilot of the

project;

assessment of communication and

incentive systems;

European Projects: an help to start.

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We faced some question:


•What kind of public transport does exist?

•What is the Legal Framework?

•What must we consider to start a FTS?

•What we pay?

•How much?

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individual Collective use

public

acsess

Private veicols

taxi

Hire With driverstraditional

scheduled services

train

School-bus

Bus rental

FTS

Rental agreements

Collective Taxi

Car sharing

Car pooling

Shared private bus

Shared school-busServices for special

groups (disabled,

elderly, ...)

USE

What kind of public transport does exist?

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What is the Legal Framework?(1)


Legal Framework! European, National, Regional + provincial and local rules

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What is the Legal Framework?(2)


We chose the rules we wanted to follow to start the service.

Regular

Commercial

scheduled services

TaxiHire with

driverRental Bus

AS’sMS’s

Particular methods of fulfilment

Hire with driver as Taxis.Taxi for collective use.

Taxi with special agreements.

Particular methods of fulfilment.

Flexible routes, time schedules and stops.

Subjects L. 21/92 and L.D. 395/00.

Direct tendering.Use of M1 vehicles.

Personal use.

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What must we consider to start a FTS? (1)


Public grants.

They can be funded to operator or to passenger (through

reduced fares) or not (if we arrive to FTS with taxi rules we

cannot fund operator but we can fund passenger).

The operator’s requirements, vehicles that can be used.

Taxi (~4 pax), Hire with drivers (~8-30 pax), PT (~50-100 pax).

PT operator can use also cars, but taxi driver can use only car.

Awarding methods.

direct/”in house”, tender, extention of actual service contract.

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What must we consider to start a FTS?(2)


Fares

Integrated with other services (traditional PT, train, parking,

etc..); higher than regular fares; net-cost, gross-cost.

Fulfilment methods, service accessibility (kind of users).

Universal access even if for specific categories. Not listed users.

Routes (on demand, flexible), stops (many-to-many, few-to-

many, …), timetable (on demand, flexible), software. , …

Relationship with passengers.

Travel rules, service effectivness: waiting time, maximum travel

time , etc., to wich link costs and grants, software.

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What we pay?


•fixed subsidy?

• variable depending on Kms done?

• variable depending on Hours and kms?

• variable depending on Passengers?

Authorities’ goal is to bring more passenger as possible!

Operators goal is to keep costs the lowest they can and have more

profits they can!

If we pay fixed subsidy, we risk paying too much if there are no passengers;

If we pay for km the operator is not incentivate to optimize the path length!

and you need to know exatly the kms run (the historical way);

Paying for hours and km is the nearest to costs trend;

Paying for passengers is ideal . Furthermore passengers are easy to

control because they buy a ticket and appears in the bilance of the operator.

We decided to give a fixed rate + a variable rate for passengers till a

maximum cap.

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How much we pay? (1)


FTSs can be divided into two operating models

(a) Bus and driver

are always available

(b) Bus and driver

on-demand

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How much we pay? (2)


N° of passengers

Traditional bus service

Ca

pa

cità

ma

ssim

a

FTS model (a) FTS tipe (b- taxi)

Cost

s

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We launched the tender


TAXI HIRE with drive PT operator

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Software

available!

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The fare integration!


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Payment system.


authorityoperator

ticketpassenger

ticket

Fixed subsidy

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We awarded the service!colBUS – first version 1 (2009)


- Model (a)

- One 8-seats car

- the served are is part of a

quarter of Bologna

- Trip requests through a

call-centre

- 57 bus stops

-11 pax /day

- 27 €/pax

data collected during the first experimental year:

- quite all bus stops are equally used;

- passengers are distributed through the whole service time;

- the number of passengers is very low: 11 passengers/day;

- bus is “on the road” for only 20% of its service time;

Consequently the driver is paid also for his not-working time. A lot of

economic resources are wasted.

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Communication campaign:


20 trips more per week

after the campaign!

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After one year we understood to be in a different area and

the passenger were really few.

Ca

paci

tà m

ass

ima

N° of passengers

Traditional bus service FTS model (a) FTS tipe (b- taxi)

Cost

s

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colBUS – second version (2010)


- Model (b)

- 70 4-seats cars

- the same served

area

- the same trip

request procedure

- the same bus

stops

- 11 pax /day

- 11 €/pax

After two year we quit the service because it was

too expensive!

In agreement with the Operator, we switched from model (a) to model (b).

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Conclusion!


- There is not a good solution for all cases!

- The same case could have diffrent solution!

- With FTS you can save money, but the costs per passenger

are high!

- Comunication is very important!

- With FTS you could have more data?

- The FTS are the first service to be quit in case of necessity!

Thank you!

Giorgio Fiorillo

SRM- Reti e Mobilità srl

Via Calzoni 1/3 - 40128 Bologna (IT)

[email protected]

http://www.civitas.eu


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