Intelligent Transport Systems to improve urban mobility

ITN Conference, 15th October 2009, Turin

Vincent Blervaque, Director of Development and Deployment, ERTICO

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Presentation overview

• ERTICO• Challenges to urban mobility• Benefits of ITS for urban mobility• Examples of ITS systems and services• Major challenges to further deployment of ITS

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ERTICO

Public-private, multi-sectorpartnership with over 100 Partners from five sectors

• Industry• Infrastructure Operators• Public Authorities• Users• Industry associations • Research institutes • Technology centres

to promote ITS in Europe.

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ERTICO - vision

“Intelligent Mobility”

•Towards zero accidents

•Towards zero delays

•With reduced impact on the environment

•Towards fully informed people

where services are affordable and seamless, privacy is respected and security is provided.

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Challenges to urban mobility

Benefits of ITS for urban mobility

ITSITS

Examples of ITS systems and services

Hazard warning extend driver perception and control

Examples of ITS systems and services

Vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communication improve intersection safety

Examples of ITS systems and servicesCooperative services: vehicle to infrastructure communication to improve infrastructure usage

Examples of ITS systems and services

ITS for Vulnerable Road Users

Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) account for approximately 43% of all traffic-related fatalities EU-wide. Especially children are at risk; road accidents are the leading cause of death for children under 15 years.

Relay nodes bridge the communication gap

WATCH‐OVER: 802.15.4a for VRU detection

SAFESPOT: 802.11pcommunication technologyfor V2V & V2I multi‐hop

• Need for an integrated and distributed approach for VRU protection, combining in-vehicle sensor-, communication- and infrastructure-solutions

• Further improve in-Vehicle VRU sensing • Use telecommmunication technologies to detect VRU• Enhance collision risk assessment methods• Find innovative driver-to-vehicle warning mechanisms• Solve security and privacy issues

Examples of ITS systems and services

FREILOT – Energy Efficient Urban Freight

FREILOT pilot aims to provide quantifiable proof that cooperation between city authorities and freight operators supported by ITS,can increase energy efficiency of urban freight by 25%.

FREILOT incentive based, win-win scheme:• City authorities will implement a traffic management system with selective

priority at intersections providing a certain level of priority to goods vehicles

• Only goods vehicles equipped with acceleration/adaptive speed limiters and eco-driving support will be eligible for this priority

• In addition, the pilot cities will offer a service for efficient management of delivery spaces to these vehicles

Examples of ITS systems and services

Electrification of vehicles and ITS in the urban setting

Urban areas will reach about 70% of the world population. Electric Vehicles (EV) will play an important role in offering efficient, clean, zero -emission and -noise urban mobility. Challenges are their use & integration in the transportation system.

• Development of battery, engine and vehicles technologies are the main focus today

• Innovative ITS systems and services are needed to ease EV integration, deployment and exploitation; in particular starting from existing ITS solutions:• further develop navigation maps as a predictive mean with ADAS horizon for EV,• improve vehicle-to-driver interaction to optimize EV trips e.g. range, battery life

and management,• solve safe interaction between EV and Vulnerable Road Users,• integrate EVs into the Smart Electrical Grid as a component of the energy

distribution network.

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Examples of ITS systems and services

i-Travel and urban mobility

• Many travellers in the city are not familiar with travel options

• In a city several different modes of transports and alternativesexist

• A personal real-time travel assistance can connect the traveller with the different travel operators and help realise significantimprovement on comfort, efficiency, safety and environment friendliness

Examples of ITS systems and services

Open platform for traffic data collection & processing

The Challenge• New data sources to be integrated

with existing data

• Separate ownership of traffic data

• Data collection based on specific requirements

• Lack of common format

Resulting in repeated collection, inefficient use of data and non-harmonised environment

The Solution• Data exchange and sharing

• Standardised interfaces

• Centralised data processing modules

• Integrating new data, historical and real-time data

Maximum benefits from all available data to improve short term traffic operation and long term planning

Examples of ITS systems and services

Open platform for traffic data collection & processing

Examples of ITS systems and services

Real-time Information for Urban Mobility

“5 to 10% of total city traffic consists of vehicles looking for a parking space”

Source: European Transport Conference 2006

• Small reductions in traffic volume significant congestion and pollution reductions

• TMC services already optimise routes and reduce overall congestion

• Recent TMC services improve city street coverage compared to early services. TPEG services using dynamic location referencing will allow full local street coverage

• TPEG applications for real time parking and fuel finding, and less driver-specific features such as weather and public transport are under development in TISA

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Major challenges for further deployment of ITS

Deployment of Intelligent Mobility

Provide framework conditionse.g. privacy, liabilities

Provide standards or de-facto standardse.g. interoperability

Test functionality, acceptance and impact

Implement certificatese.g. quality

Increase demand

Create business casese.g. pre-commercial procurement

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