Civitas Workshop – Effective solutions for green urban transport 24 April 2012 Athens

Civitas Workshop – Effective solutions for

green urban transport

24 April 2012

Athens

Alan Lewis, TTR on behalf of:

Lars Elgaard Thomsen,

Public Transport Authority of North Denmark

CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg

24 April • Athens • Lars Elgaard Thomsen

Outline

1. Public Transport Authority of North Denmark

2. Aalborg and its traffic challenges

3. ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg

4. IT Architecture

5. Today's challenges

6. New strategy on passenger information


Public Transport Authority of North Denmark(the north Jutland region)

Responsible for planning and administration (including e.g. quality and use of ITS). The municipalities/region order traffic and service level. NT organizes the traffic and ensure proper coordination

Buys the traffic from private companies through public tendering (EU regulations)

Include 2 local train lines, 400 buses, 25 private bus contractors and 32 million passengers per year

Special transports for e.g. disabled people, hospitals and specialized schools. Combined trips carried out by 600 taxis and mini buses: 700.000 trips per year




Facts

Total population200,000 inhabitants

City population120,000 inhabitants

Municipality area:1,144 km2

Road network:2000 km


Aalborg and its traffic challengesThe urban city area is divided by the Limfjord

Only 2 road connections cross the fiord

Bottleneck and vulnerable infrastructure

Local traffic as well as regional and interregional traffic

The city of Aalborg


Traffic situation

• Rising congestion on main roads in peak hour

• Congestion in inner city, on bridge and approach roads to bridge. Not only in peak hour.

• Congestion and size of peak hour fast rising.

• Ageing population

• High number of urban dwellers

• High car dependency


• Relatively heavy use of bikes

• Decreasing numbers of children cycling to school

• Decreasing numbers of passengers in Public Transport

• Increasing number of cars in inner city

Modal share in Aalborg



ARCHIMEDES projects in Aalborg

• Bio-diesel demonstration in buses and postal service vehicles

• Green tourist shuttle bus

• Travel smart card testing

• Online traffic information

• Improved parking information system

• Bicycle campaign for schools

• Commuter travel plans

• Safer environment for soft modes

• Speed reduction zones

• Bicycle commuter route

• 190 city bikes

• Car sharing and car pooling campaigns

• BYPAD – Bicycle Policy Audit

• Environmental zone

• Eco- and safe driving

• Real time travel planning on the mobile phone

• Information screens in buses

• Congestion monitoring and reduction



Real time travel planning on the mobile phoneTravel smart card

Online traffic information Information screens in buses


IT Architecture – Basic philosophy

• Fully integrated system

• Small replaceable standard modules

• Open standard interfaces, protocols and data formats

• Standard hardware – Standard software – standard operating system

• No monopoly and freedom of choice within the market

• Best performance / price ratio



IT Architecture – Core elements

• Bus PC’s in all buses

• Real Time Information at terminals, train stations, super stops, inside buses, on the Internet, SMS, WAP

• Compact terminal – IT controlled

• Bus priority at intersections

• Travel Card in all buses

• Infotainment in all buses

• Mobile services

• Personalised homepage for traffic information



Compact terminal

Bus priority

AVL-server

BusPC

PubTrans

GPRS /WLAN

Realtime

Timetables

Travel Card

Operation monitoring

We have the full infrastructure but especially our information towards the customers can constantly be improved.Today bus passengers expect that public transport uses all common channels for information. We want to give the passengers the best possible but it’s difficult always to follow the latest technology.

• New opportunities comes every day

• In the mobile area developments happpens very, very quickly

• Many different operating systems for phones and PCs

• No direct integration with others traffic operators


• From the specification in 2007/2008 until now many things have happened concerning smart phones and the possibilities.

• NT started with an App and this winter we launched a new HTML-5 version

Real time travel planning on the mobile phone



• Still have the same basic system but in the future:• Providing data (good and reliable ) and then let

other make the services in cooperation with other transport companies or by private companies.

• Delivering timetable data and realtime data to the national travel planner and then have open, standard interfaces, API and other channels supporting different solutions for passenger information

• Displays

• Homepages

• Smartphones

IT Architecture – New strategy

Next:

• Correspondence security

• Travel guarantee


Event • Date • Location • Speaker

Thank you!

Alan Lewis, TTR

[email protected]

on behalf of:

Lars Elgaard Thomsen

[email protected]

www.nordjyllandstrafikselskab.dk

Civitas Workshop – Effective solutions for green urban transport 24 April 2012 Athens

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