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Intelligent Roads": State of Play & Future Perspectives

“The viewpoint of cities & regions ”

Suzanne Hoadley, Polis


Main ITS applications in cities/regions

Traffic management

• Most cities and towns are equipped with UTC systems• Why?

• To best manage different users of road space (pedestrians, cyclist, drivers and public transport) – main difference between highway and urban road network

• To optimise traffic flow at all times

• Traffic control centres• Integrated UTC centres, eg, Berlin (PT & road operators

under one roof).• Other stakeholders and services, eg, transport police in

London (incident management), observing public disorder (Birmingham)



Traffic management

• Data gathering:• Sources: local and highway authorities, transport

police, automobile clubs, buses/trams, events,• Technologies: CCTV, loops, ‘eye in the sky’, floating

vehicle data (eg, Surrey CC)

• Delivery mechanisms: transport authority alone or public-private partnerships, eg, VMZ Berlin,



Demand management strategies

• Approaches• Road pricing/tolling, eg, London, Trondheim• Access restrictions, eg, Rome• Similar policy objectives (reduce congestion in city centre)

but different methods

• Technologies: from simple (ANPR) to sophisticated (GPS)• London & Rome: ANPR

– Why?: simple, proven technology• Accuracy: 90% London; 98% Rome• London: trials of tag & beacon; medium-term objective:

differentiated pricing (GPS)


Alcune reazioniSome “intelligent” users

reactions



Demand management strategies

Wider developments

• Locally• More and more cities considering road pricing and/or

access restrictions as a tool to combat congestion

• European level• Infrastructure charging directive • Interoperability directive(subsidiarity: interuban network only but apply defacto to

cities)

• National initiatives• Germany and UK: national lorry road user charging



Real-time network information

• Road network: • Interfaces: VMS, Internet, SMS, on-board• Real-time but also working on predictive information • Reroute journey or choose alternative travel mode

• Parking information & guidance: • Information on parking space availability (VMS)• Route guidance• Prebooking services (Internet)



Real-time Public Transport (PT) information & priority

• Interfaces: PT stops (LCD displays, Göteborg), Internet, public screens/kiosks (eg, Bristol shopping centre & hospital), SMS (eg, Hellobus, Bologna)

• PT priority at signals and bus-lane enforcement • Technology: AVL (GPS or sensors) & CCTV



Smartcards

• Aims to facilite PT use and intermodality• Eg, London’ electronic purse (Oyster card) – contactless

card holding season passes and pay as you go• Multifunctional Smartcards

• to pay for other transport services (eg, tolls) • Extend to other services, eg, bankcard, municipal

services (library card, etc)



Improving safety• Incident detection and management• Speed and red-light camera enforcement

Improving environment• Monitoring of air quality and adapting traffic

management strategy accordingly (HEAVEN project)

Journey planning• Few (if any) offer real-time journey planning but working

towards it


Main challenges

• Legacy systems• Difficult to retrofit ITS applications to bespoke or

older UTC systems, eg, Paris & bus priority

• Integration• Problem: systems from different suppliers can rarely

talk to eachother • Solutions: common/open platforms (eg, UTMC,

DATEX, etc – protocols but not yet standards)


Main challenges• Funding

• Benefits of UTC well established• Not the case for other ITS applications

• Main issue: WHO SHOULD PAY?• Authorities, industry or public?• CBA should consider impact of ITS on broader transport

policy objectives, eg– contribution to modal shift (RT PT information, bus

priority, journey planners, road network information)– reduced congestion (road network information)– air quality improvements, eg, HEAVEN DSS

• Potential solution: PPP, eg, MATTISSEM3


Future perspectivesCooperative vehicle infrastructure systems (CVIS)• Local authority perspective: potentially huge benefits but long-

term vision (20+ years)• Early examples, Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA)• Wider security benefits:

• Remotely stopping a vehicle instead of dangerous police pursuit

• Current ANPR technology can reveal unlicensed, uninsured vehicles

• Main concerns• Car manufacturers imposing technology on infrastructure

operators• Liability: who responsible if technology fails?


Future perspectives

Benefits of GPS/Galileo for cities/regions

• Managing municipal fleets• Improve reliability of real-time PT information• Less infrastructure intensive for bus priority

• Urban road pricing• Fairer system of charging (according to time, distance and

journey)

• Incident detection & managment


What is Polis ?A network of cities and regions working in the field of

transport • 70 members• Partnerships with research centres and industry • founded in 1989• President : AMT Genoa (Italy)• based in Brussels with a staff of 7

Aim : to promote innovation in transport both at technical and organisational level, through: • learning from one other (sharing experiences & solutions)• implementing innovative solutions (promoting innovative

solutions and facilitating access to EU RTD projects)• promoting sustainable mobility (voice of cities and regions

vis-à-vis European ins


Polis in support of ITS

• ITS is a core activity of Polis • Many members previously & currently involved in EU-

funded RTD projects in field of ITS• Current priorities

• Promote take-up of ITS solutions• Faciliate exchange of experiences

• Current activities• Traffic efficiency WG

– Aims: to learn from best practice, develop a vision for the future, dialogue with the Commission on perpsectives for cities (CVIS, etc) and support required


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