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European Research Initiatives
for Innovation in Local Transport
Sylvain Haon, Polis
Istanbul, March 13th 2008
European Research Initiatives
for Innovation in Local Transport
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Introduction to Polis
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What role for local authorities in European research projects ?
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What kind of projects ? The European research framework programme and
local transport, beyond FP7
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Examples of innovations supported by the European Union
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How European research projects can lead to sustainable urban mobility?
Example from Lille
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Beyond research, implementing sustainable urban mobility
Polis network of cities and regions promoting
innovation in local transport
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70 European cities and regions in 17 countries promoting innovation in
local transport
Other
Members
Presidency
Municipality of Barcelona, ES
Management Committee
Dresden City Council, DE
Emilia-Romagna Region, IT
City of Göteborg, SE
Hampshire County Council, UK
Noord Brabant Province, NL
Rome Mobility Agency, IT
Greater Stuttgart Region, DE
Public Transport Authority of Toulouse, FR
National Assembly for Wales, UK
City of Aalborg, DK
Aberdeen City Council, UK
City of Amsterdam, NL
Senate of Berlin, DE
Municipality of Bologna, IT
City of Braila, RO
Bristol City Council, UK
London Borough of Bromley, UK
Brussels-Capital Region, BE
City of Bucharest, RO
City of Budapest, HU
London Borough of Camden, UK
Clermont Ferrand SMTC, FR
City of Cologne, DE
Cork City Council, IRL
Côtes d’Armor, FR
Dublin Transportation Office, IRL
Edinburgh City Council, UK
City of Eindhoven, NL
City of Evora, PT
Flanders Region, BE
City of Frankfurt, DE
State of Geneva, CH
AMT Genoa, IT
Glasgow City Council, UK
The Hague, NL
Hunedoara County Council, RO
Lancashire County Council, UK
Lille Urban Community, FR
Municipality of Lisbon, PT
Transport for London, UK
Municipality of Madrid, ES
Marseille Urban Community, FR
Merseytravel, UK
Province of Naples, IT
Municipality of Örebro, SE
City of Paris, FR
City of Perugia, IT
City of Prague, CZ
Reading Borough Council, UK
City of Rotterdam, NL
Southampton City Council, UK
City of Stockholm, SE
Surrey County Council, UK
City of Tallinn, EST
City of Trondheim, NO
City of Utrecht, NL
Värmland Region, SE
West Midlands, UK
West Sussex County
Council, UK
West Sweden Office, SE
Associate Members
AGIR, FR
Transport Research Centre,
CDV, CZ
Cycling Scotland, UK
Kennisplatform Verkeer en
Vervoer (KpVV), NL
Romanian Association of
Public Transport, RO
SUSTRANS, UK
Polis network of cities and regions promoting innovation in local
transport
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Three missions:
- facilitating exchange of experience and transfer of knowledge
- supporting the participation of Polis members in European projects
- dialogue with the European institutions
Polis network of cities and regions promoting
innovation in local transport
All activities are structures around 4 thematic pillars:
Sustainable urban
mobility policy
What role for local autorities in European research
projects ?
- Polis as an association takes part directly to 15 European projects inorder to
better carry on its three main missions
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Local authorities are regulators and infrastructure managers and as such central
actors of the mobility system
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They are enablers and facilitators for the development and the deployment of
innovative solutions
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Innovative policies to improve local urban mobility
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Trigger innovative technological solutions
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Test new industrial solutions
What role for local autorities in European research
projects ?
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Definition of research needs and priorities
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Test sites / demonstration
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Results validation
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Support to research activities
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Support to dissemination, support to networks
What kind of projects ? The European research framework
programme and local transport, beyond FP7
Several European Commission services are involved.
Not only European Transport Policy.
Directorate General for Transport and Energy, manages the CIVITAS
programme and some research projects.
Directorate General for Research
Directorate General for Information Society
Directorate General for Environment, Social policy, etc.
Example of innovation supported by the European
Union
Heaven and CitéAir
http://heaven.rec.org/
HEAVEN, with Berlin, Leicester, Paris, Prague, Rome, Rotterdam as partners.
Air quality monitoring applications, Air quality modelling applications
The Decision Support System (DSS) provides information about "hot spots" with short-term
forecasts or long-term annual average concentrations of traffic-related pollutants, using a
user-friendly interface for decision makers. This system is able to evaluate the
environmental impacts for actual traffic situations and for planned Transport Demand
Management Strategies. The system is composed of a number of modelling modules and
operator interfaces.
The Common Information Platform enables the public, the media, and professional
users to obtain real-time and historic information on air quality, noise, and traffic flow.
An Urban Noise Model predicts noise pollution.
The Health Data Platform will define a data exchange platform with health authorities
The project supports cities and regions in developing efficient means to collect, present
and compare air quality data across a multitude of sites and provides an input to the air quality
reporting and action planning.
It created the first common air quality index in Europe
http://citeair.rec.org
The e-SUM Project
Cities are proposing to work together with P2W manufacturers, to:
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improve the diagnosis of the urban P2W problems;
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identify best practice (features for safer vehicles, targeted enforcement, appropriately designed
infrastructure, and ways of improving driving and riding behaviour);
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apply it through revisions of urban Motorcycling Action Plans;
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demonstrate advances in the state-of-the-art;
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promote a rapid adoption of best safety practice
eSUM (european Safer Urban Motorcycling): a constant reduction in P2W accidents can be
achieved addressing P2W safety with an integrated european approach.
Cooperation Cities-Industry to improve knowledge on PTW
eSUM best practice are to be transferred to cities across Europe
The study will result in the following outputs:
• eSUM Diagnosis of Urban Motorcycling Safety,
• Best Practice Guidance for Improving Urban P2W Safety,
• Demonstrations for Improving Urban P2W Safety,
• Potential Impacts for Improving Urban P2W Safety,
• Downloadable promoting safer P2Ws models on European City Streets
Participating Partners:
• Cities of Barcelona, Paris, London, Rome, • BMW, Piaggio, University of Florence and Athens, ACEM,
ALTRAN, DGT,
CONDUITS: Coordination Of Network Descriptors for Urban Intelligent
Transportation Systems
The main objectives of this project are to develop Key Performance
Indicators that assist European municipalities in business decisions for ITS
projects and to facilitate best practice experiences between municipalities on
experiences with ITS. An important aspect of the research is further to link
the performance indicators to the current traffic situation in the cities. The
project consortium consists of the transport authorities of five European cities
(London, Paris, Rome, Brussels and Istanbul).
3 main tasks:
- a review of ITS in European cities today
- an outlook on ITS developments in European cities tomorrow
- the establishment of Key Performance Indicators.
- searchable web-tool on ITS functions employed in European cities
- reviews on future R&D needs
LINK - The European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel
Intermodality - the combination of different transport modes on a single journey - is a
challenge, a principle and a vision. The LINK project aims at the creation of a
European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel.
Stakeholders have different opportunities to be involved in the LINK Forum:
Receiving regular information on the progress and results of the Forum.
Enriching the Forum with their experience by participating in the consultation process
(three survey rounds (initial consultation: autumn 2007).
Active participation as experts in network activities like workshops, conferences,
working groups.
Different intermodal focus:
Door-to-door information and ticketing
Intermodal networks and interchanges
Integration of long distance transport and the “first/last urban mile”
Planning and implementation
Context conditions
http://www.linkforum.eu
CVIS and cooperative systems
http://www.cvisproject.org
http://www.optipark.eu
OPTIPARK aimed at enhancing urban mobility and optimising the
usage of parking space by launching an innovative implementation of
parking web services. By offering and managing a whole parking
service network, the project looked also - besides more efficient usage
of available capability - at integrating parking services into other
business activities (i.e. of hotels, theatres or cinemas).
Towards the deployment of new and innovative
solutions for sustainable urban mobility
NICHES promotes the most promising new concepts,
initiatives and projects, moving them from their current
‘niche’ position to a ‘mainstream’ urban transport policy
application.
Towards the deployment of new and
innovative solutions for sustainable urban mobility
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New Seamless Mobility Services
Innovative Approaches in City Logistics
New Non-Polluting and Energy-Efficient Vehicles
Innovative Demand Management Strategies
Output on www.niches-transport.org
State of the art and good practice
Feasibility and transferability
Design of integrated transport strategies
Visions for the future and recommendations
WG 1: New Seamless Mobility Services, IC
1) Urban lift sharing services: Matching services that bring people travelling in the same
direction together aiming to encourage individuals to share private vehicles for
particular journeys.
E.g: Liftshare (UK)
2) Public bicycles: Innovative schemes
of rental or free bicycles in urban areas,
which provide fast and easy access
and can be used for daily mobility.
E.g: Vélo à la Carte (Rennes)
3) Call a bus services: Demand
responsive travel schemes in public
transport that adapt their itinerary and
timetable to suit a particular transport
demand. E.g: Publicar (CH)
WG 2: Innovative Approaches in City Logistics, IC
4) Space management for urban delivery: Efficient use of
infrastructure in urban areas taking into account the specific
needs of urban goods delivery. E.g: Multiuse lane (Barcelona)
5) Inner city night delivery: Delivery to retailers and shops in
the inner city area during the night hours when the city is quiet
and inactive. E.g: Night delivery (Barcelona)
6) Home delivery using locker boxes: To organise the «last
mile» processes efficiently, alternative delivery locations, time
windows for the delivery and alternative redelivery strategies are
considered if the consignee is not at home.
E.g: DHL Packstation (DE)
WG 3: New Non-Polluting and Energy-Efficient Vehicles, IC
7) Policy strategy to deploy AFV in the private sector:
Provide long term stability for the actors at the AFV market
and involve new consumer groups. E.g: Clean vehicles in
Stockholm
8) Biogas in captive fleets: The use of biogas from waste
water or from solid biological material as fuel; this
contributes to reduce the waste problem and increase the
competitiveness of the rural areas. This locally produced
biogas is enough to feed city fleets, which allows to have
reduced number of fuelling stations and therefore
introducing it steadily.
E.g: Swensk Biogas AB (Linköping)
9) Joint procurement of AFVs: Gathering a substantial
amount of buyers to overcome the uncertainty of the
demand by the manufacturers and encourage the
introduction of new models.
E.g: Joint procurement of Renault Clio (SE)
WG 4: Innovative Demand Management Strategies, IC
10) Transportation Management Associations
(TMAs): Non-profit public-private associations forming
partnership with business and local government that
offer commuter information and mobility services. E.g:
Ride On (USA)
11) Local taxes or charges ring-fenced for
transport: Taxes or charges at local level
that aim at benefiting the urban transport
system as a whole by the reinvestment of
the collected revenues into the local transport
system. E.g: Workplace parking levy (UK)
12) City-wide campaigns using marketing and
branding: Schemes presenting awareness raising
events at a city level in close cooperation with public and
private bodies and that are run on a permanent basis.
The aim is to involve citizens and raise awareness on
the various mobility opportunities proposed within the
city and its outskirts. E.g: Big Wheel Campaigng
(Nottingham)
Open source for urban transport
professionals
Providing information on innovative urban
transport concepts: case studies, reports,
experts contacts
www.osmose-os.org
Lille organic recovery center
and fleet of biogas buses
Objective:
Sustainable waste treatment and development of a fleet of clean buses
running on biogas
Several stages and investment needed – different sources of funding at
different stages
Development of a fleet of biogas buses
Strategy and investments for sustainable waste treatment
Objective of producing biogas for the fleet of public buses
COLLECTION
paper
Bottles, cans
biowaste
Non recyclable waste
from1994
• Methane fuel
Production trials
using biogas.
This supplies 4 buses.
1999
• decision to replace
the diesel bus fleet
with gas and biogaspowered buses.
2004
• decision to choose methane
fuel for recovering biogas
produced by biowaste digestion.
2005
• Selective collection of
biowaste involves 500,000
inhabitants.
• Organic recovery centre
commissioned. Biogas
Production equivalent to
4.5 million litres of diesel/year
2007
•Construction of Organic Recovery Centre
(Loos/Sequedin) to treat 100,000 tonnes of
biowaste /year.
Construction of gas/biogas bus depot in
Sequedin.
• 100 of the 150 buses stationed there are
supplied with biogas from the Organic
Recovery Centre.
2005
EIB 50 million euros loan
for the waste treatment and
organic recovery facility
FP5 – THERMIE project
2001
CIVITAS Trendsetter – progressive
deployment of natural gas bus fleet
2005
EFDR Objective 2
2006
Biogas max project
2009
EIB 50 M€ loan for waste treatment and organic recovery center
FEDER Objective 2: part of the extra cost of biogas buses: compression
station, biogas washing station to reach the required level of purity, bus
equipment
Biogasmax (Research Framework Programme) – urban landscape around
the plant, development around the local project including biomethane
injection in the national grid, conversion of waste collection vehilces
exchange with partners, planning and managing
CIVITAS Trendsetter (Research Framework Programme 6): demonstration,
evaluation, exchange of experience and reinforcement of the momentum
and strategy, communication
Complementarity of EU funding sources
Long term vision and a coherent strategy are a condition for an efficient support
Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
What is the aim of SUTP?
SUTP aims at achieving a sustainable urban transport system, by addressing at least the following
objectives:
• Ensuring the accessibility to all;
• Reducing the negative impact of the transport system on the health, safety and security;
• Reducing air and noise emissions, and energy consumption;
• Improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the network ;
• Contributing to the attractiveness and quality of the urban environment.
What does SUTP address?
All modes and forms of transport in the entire urban agglomeration: Public and private; Passenger and
freight; Motorised and non-motorised; Moving and parking.
Essential characteristics of SUTP are:
• A participatory approach
• A pledge for sustainability
• An integrated approach
• A focus on the achievement of measurable targets
www.pilot-transport.org
Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
5 key Tasks – well-structured strategic planning
process
1: Status analysis and scenario development
1.1: Inventarisation of existing plans and
policies
1.2: Status analysis
1.3: Scenario development
2: Vision, objectives and targets
2.1: Common vision of stakeholders
2.2: Definition of objectives
2.3: Targets for outcome indicators
3: Action and budget plan
10 “Missions”
Timing of the planning process
Strategic coordination and actor relations
Responsibility and geographical coverage
Citizen participation
Stakeholder involvement
Integration of policies for SUTP
Social inclusion and gender equity
Skill management
Information and public relations
Management and organisation
4: Assigning responsibilities and resources
5: Monitoring and evaluation
www.pilot-transport.org
Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
Timing
Strategic cooperation
and actors relations
Geographic coverage and
responsible authorities
Skill
management
Citizen
Participation
Running the
SUTP
Information
and public
relations
process
Social inclusion and gender equities
Stakeholder
involvement
Integration of policies for SUTP
Strategic and operative framework
Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
Strategic and operative framework
Status analysis and scenario
development
Monitoring
evaluation
Vision, objectives and targets
Action and budget plan
Assigning responsibilities and
ressources
Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
www.pilot-transport.org
Polis in the technology platforms
eSAFETY RTD working group
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Polis and two members
Updated eSAFETY Strategic Research Agenda
ERTRAC
Creation of an European cluster on urban mobility research led by Polis.
Thank you !
Sylvain Haon
Polis
Network of European cities and regions
supporting innovation in local transport
[email protected]
+32 2 500 56 71
www.polis-online.org