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EC Workshop 18 March 2010
Intelligent transport systems
For Urban Areas
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EMTA is a forum for the exchange of information, research and
experience between the public transport authorities responsible for
planning, integrating and financing public transport services in the largest
cities across Europe. It was created in 1998 at the initiative of the STIF.
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EMTA, regularly contributes to the European Commission consultation
exercises, and takes opportunities to voice its concerns to European
Institutions
32 members across 17 European Countries
and a partner institution in Canada
1. ITS Platform
Platform Governance:
 Objective is to ensure sustainable mobility, achieving modal shift. The goal is
a better mobility for the citizens making sound on the spot choices any time
of the day. All modes and all aspects of mobility must be covered.
 Build on existing experience in the various transport networks and enhance
open interfaces, standards for interoperability, and collaboration between
responsible authorities on a given territory.
 Enlarged to all stakeholders decision-makers, transport operators and ICT
service providers, industry sector and end users for they need to hear each
other.
2. ITS Platform
Platform Governance:
 Draw an overarching ITS
architecture including all modes, all aspects of
mobility and all related responsible bodies.
 Foster cooperation between local and regional authorities and between mode
related authorities (sea, air, road and rail)
 Cross-border interoperability to be supported by EC in developing openstandards
 Work on minimum standards at EU level for data specification.
3. Travel and traffic information
 Knowledge on public transport multimodal integrated travel information is
common but integration with traffic info needs to be enhanced
(data
collection format, update and maintenance of info)
 More advanced integrated
experience exist (GOVI project PT info without
frontiers), or Collaboration between VBB Berlin-Brandenburg and ZTM
Warsaw for an integrated travel planner.
 More advanced technology currently in application through mobile phones.
 Need for open-standards and/or open-protocol on technical and content level.
INSPIRE Directive into force but not completed for PT notably the problem of
shared PT stops.
 Need for an operator independent and customer oriented provider of info
4. Smart-ticketing
 Again several examples of implemented smart-ticketing schemes across
Europe
 Very useful tool for managing all sorts of data on operational and financial
aspects and for knowing better travel patterns
 Interoperability from a network to another ”seamless” travel
isn’t ensured.
Good example in the Netherlands but the path was difficult.
 Compatibility means barriers to overcome at regional, national and in the
future international level. The issue is an economic as well as a political one
5. Smart Ticketing
Example of standardisation issues applied to E-ticketing specifications: sustainability, interoperability, and
modularity are main advantages however not all stakeholders agree and barriers have to be overcome as
shown below. Source EMTA study on E-Ticketing in Public Transport 2007 see www.emta.com /publication
6. Traffic and access management
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Schemes such as Congestion charging or low-emission zones, parking spaces
monitoring, public bike rental facilities etc.. Are more and more in use across
European
cities.
They
imply
a
good
coordination
between
different
administrations (road administration, public transport authorities…)
 Data collection relies on good collaboration between actors.
 Provision is effective if constantly updated and easily accessible. Service
provider must be customer oriented.
Thank you for your attention