Traffic Negative Effects
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• Traffic jams• Pollution• Waste of time• Stressed citizens• Productivity reduction• “External costs”• Long cruising for parking
Italy is the country with the highest numebr of cars per person (0.6) excluding Luxemburg and this condition inevitably create problems
Bergamo Situation
Public transports and cycling do not receive the attention they
should deserve
Even if according to some surveys (ISFORT) citizens will be willing to use public transports for the same travel time
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In Bergamo there is an extensive use of car because the alternatives are unattractive
Bergamo Situation
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The Bergamo’s situation is not a negative exception in Italy, but it is the common “state of art” in all the country. Italy is in backwardness conditions respect to the north European countries in terms of efficient and eco-friendly transports.
No innovative and sustainable
solutions for transportspoor
Government investments
Car is an hardly replaceable key element of our city
INCREASING TRAFFIC
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Two ways to solve the problemTo solve this problem there are 2 solutions: the development of alternative and efficient mean of transports (private or public) or a proper implementation of a traffic management system
Alternative and efficient means
of trasport
Traffic Management
System
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Traffic ManagementIn dense urban areas, traditional construction of new capacity is cost-prohibitive and often physically impossible
Bergamo has no a lot of opportunities to increase his capacity and physical
infrastructures
The current crisis of mobility can be solved with efficient urban planning and new technologies
applied to traffic management
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Bergamo Traffic Management
Long queue and paralyzed traffic in Bergamo and the surrounded area during work days (Bergamo, Milan, Brescia)
Poor system of traffic management : .Traffic data from existing solutions are highly inaccurate..No vehicle detection monitors installed. Monitoring traffic flow from closed circuit television videos (unreliable and time-consuming task)
What does Bergamo need?
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Intelligente use of
infrastructures
Real time info
Citizens distributed and better decisions
Prediction from
hystorical data
Advantages for inhabitants and
authorities
• . ICT technologies such as microcontrollers and sensor
• . Informaton received on Pc or apps for smartphones
• . inhabitants can be active participants, enhancing the quality of the traffic management
Parking
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Between 8% and 74% of traffic in congested downtown areas is caused by people cruising for parking, spending between 3.5 and 14 minutes searching for a space each time they park
Bergamo limits:. A lot of parking in narrow streets.. No wide parking spaces. No uniforme management of private and public parking areas
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[Smart mobility]
University of Bergamo
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