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Urban Freight Distribution in Barcelona
Julio Garcia RamonMobility Projects DirectorBarcelona Municipality
• Best Urban Freight Solutions I Conference• Barcelona, 30th March 2001
jgarciaramon@bcn.mail.es
Svp/bestuf30032001v2
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Overview
• City characteristics• Conceptual design• Improving transhipment• Kerbside management• Integration with Zone Access Control• Services for goods delivery
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The metropolitan expansion has overtaken the next urbanareas, conforming an integrated territorial system of 3
million inhabitants and 5.200 inh/km2...
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Barcelona is a very dynamic city, involved in agradual increase in tertiary industry, leading to a
growth of tourism.
• Population 1 585 800 hab.
• Surface (km2) 99,07 ha.
• Employees (1998) 721 000
• Professional and industrial activities (1998) 186 000
• Primary Sector 0 %
• Secondary Sector 18 %
• Tertiary Sector 82 %
• Available Household Income 2 226 131 PTA (13 410 euros)
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There are 41.000 vans and commercial vehicles inBarcelona, figuring the 5% of the total.
• Including commercial vehiclesand trucks, reaches the 9% ofthe total.
• In the period 1996-1999, thenumber of commercial vehiclesand trucks increased 25%;while number of cars wasstable.
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Barcelona has 6.200 places for loading&unloading.The use features are:
• From 9 to 13 hours, themajor part of operationstake place.
• 96% take less than 30minuts and 90% less than15 minuts.
Evolució horària de les operacions de càrrega i descàrrega i comparacio amb la corba de distribució
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• November and Decemberconcentrate the majornumber of deliveryoperations.
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• Weekly, fridays aremore active days interms of supply forthe weekend.
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In general, the number of places for load&unloadis considered to be adequate, except for:
• Inadequate use: other vehiclesnot operating occupyingplaces.
• Only 36% of the vehicleparked are commercialvehicles and operate.
• Stays are usually long andoften not related to aproper use (sometimesoccupied by the tenants ofthe shops).
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Key results from surveys (PROINTEC, 1997)
• Some 25,000 vehicles realise approx. 100,000loading/unloading operations each day in Barcelona.
• The average time for un/loading on-street is 13 mins. Almostall actions are realised within 30 mins.
• 4,000 kerbside spaces are required to accommodate theneeds of goods delivery vehicles
• Trend is for smaller vehicles / consignments & moredispersed pattern of demand
• Measures are needed to improve final-stage of delivery,ensuring a correct balance between operator’s needs &authority’s obligation to maintain service levels for road trafficcirculation
• Telematics techniques can improve performance attranshipment points & at final point of delivery
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Measures are applied at points oftranshipment & delivery
LARAMBLA
CIUTATVELLA
PARC LOGISTICMERCABARNAWHOLESALEMARKET
C/. BALMESC/.MUNTANER
EXISTING ACCESS CONTROL ZONE
ADVANCED ACCESS CONTROL ZONE
ELECTRONIC KERBSIDE
TRANSHIPMENT CENTRE
STREET WITH COMBINED-USE LANE
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Transhipment at Mercabarna wholesale market
• Entry is by toll payment - system supplied by BTSA/ Tecsidel in 1998:• Contact-less card payment, with automated pre-classification & NPR
systems, covering 11 lanes, with manual payment restricted to 2 entries• System handles good vehicles of different sizes, & monthly subscription is
offered• Average entry volume is 10,000 vehs. per day
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Transhipment at PLZ - Parc Logistic Zone
• Controlled access system operating since opening of PLZ, Feb. 2001• Contact-less card, magnetic ticket & digital video technologies control
entry & exit movements for 4 lanes, supplied by BTSA• System handles good vehicles of different sizes, & monthly subscription is
offered• The PLZ units are already 100% subscribed.
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Combined-use Lanes:Balmes street
• VMS messages clarify use (residents, clear-way, deliveries) according to time of day.
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Combined-use Lanes: Muntaner street
• VMS messages clarify use (residents, clear-way, deliveries) according to time of day.
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Traffic regulations at Junctions, Eixample
• Zones reserved for loading/unloading only from 08.00 until 14.00 (or20.00),
• Maximum stay period is 30 minutes.• 700 reserved zones have been signed in this manner throughout the
Eixample District• Over 2,500 vehicles towed-away in two years.
Workdays 9 to 20 h
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Kerbside delivery - automated enforcement is thecommonly perceived need
• The roadside surveys conducted by the Municipality indicate thatun/loading actions are almost always realised within 30 minutes ....
• ..but that, often, the vehicle parked in the reserved space does not makea delivery.
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Zone Access Control in the Historic CentreBARCELONA (La Ribera)
Friday-Saturday 6:00 11:00 14:00 17:00 20:00 24:00
RESIDENTS &AUTHORISEDVEHICLES
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RESIDENTS &AUTHORISED VEHICLES
Bollard activated bysmart card transaction
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Bollard activated by smart cardtransaction
• Designed to provide pedestrian priority & to make streets liveable• 50 gates installed (city-wide), 5 zones centrally controlled, 8,000 resident
cards issued• ..delivery vehicles only allowed to enter during defined time “windows”
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ZAC system now incorporates digitalvideo enforcement
control infraccions (Accés restringit, C/D)
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Plans to extend Zone Access Control will offermore flexible time-slots to clean goods vehicles
EXISTING ZONE ACCESS
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bollard down
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TIME-SEGMENTED DELIVERY ACCESS
Operators A, B Operators X,Y
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Internet road network information services
• Finding the closest car park to one’s trip destination• Current congestion levels for primary road network links, with forecasts for next 15 mins.
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The widening of controlled specific places forload&unload is under consideration.
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Vision for 2005: customised services
• Internet search for controlled kerbsidespace(s) closest to delivery destination
• Clean zones with special access windows forregistered, low-emission goods vehicles
• Automated enforcement guarantees services• Fixed/mobile Internet itinerary guidance -
integrating kerbside & network info. systems• Assurance of final stage of the delivery chain
for registered goods vehicles / operators (eg:those recognised at transhipment centres)