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Bus Rapid Transit Bus Rapid Transit in Rouen, Francein Rouen, France

Using Siemens Optical Guidance SystemUsing Siemens Optical Guidance System

ContentsContents• Community Transit Overview• Historical Summary• Today’s SystemToday’s System• Capital and Operating CostsCapital and Operating Costs• Optical Guidance and SignalingOptical Guidance and Signaling• Dealing with Narrow Rights of WayDealing with Narrow Rights of Way• Urban IntegrationUrban Integration• Rolling StockRolling Stock• Appendix: Some DetailsAppendix: Some Details

CREA since 1st January 2010

70 municipalities

493,382 inhabitants

La CREADirection de la communication14 bis avenue PasteurCS 50589 - 76006 ROUEN Cedex

Communauté de l'Agglomération Rouen Elbeuf Austreberthe

Areas of jurisdiction

Public transport

Water

Sanitation

Waste

Solidarity(Re-) Employ-

ment

Economic development

Cultural and sports

activities

Environment Tourism

Municipal policy

Grants for small

municipali-ties

Spatial planning

(roughly equivalent to Metropolitan Planning Organization [MPO])

Metrobus

TEOR (Rouen East-West Transport)

Structuring lines

Secondary lines

TAE lines (Elbeuf transport)

The CREA transport network

Topography

Population density (1999) Topography

“TEOR” Transport Est-Ouest de Rouen(Rouen East-West Transit)

Objectives:Improve access to districts with high

population densities

Enable access to the congested shopping mall

Enable access to frequently used facilities (Government center, University Hospital center, University faculties)

Background of the East-West transport scheme

1994 (December): North-South light rail (with downtown subway) commissioned

1996 (December): Request for Proposals based on performance forecast for east-west light rail line

1997 (December): RFP declared unsuccessful due to high cost of rail option

1997 (December): New RFP for BRT-based system

1999 (July): Declaration of Public Utility (i.e. Project approved for National-level funding)

2001 (February): Lines T2 and T3 West enter service

2002 (April): Line T1 West enters service2003 (February): Launch of work in Rouen

city center and to the East2007 (January – December): TEOR gradually

enters service eastwards

Background to the East-West transport scheme

The lines of the Greater Rouen network

Metro: - 1 line 9.4 miles long- 31 stations / 5 municipalities- 28 train sets- Journey speed: 11.9 MPH- Frequency: 2.5 min peak 6 min off-peak- 65,335 boardings / day

TEOR: - 3 lines 18.5 miles long- 53 stations / 8 municipalities- 66 vehicles- Journey speed: 10.9 MPH- Frequency (common sections): 2 min peak hours 3 min off-peak hours- 69,170 boardings / day

The lines of the Greater Rouen network

Bus network:

- 8 structuring lines

- 22 secondary lines

- 11 taxi lines

- 28 school lines

- 53, 000 journeys / day

College/University

Frequently used facility

High density housing

Shopping mall

Final TEOR right-of-way

University campus

Law School

Gov’t CenterRailway StationUniv. Hospital

School of Architecture

Medical School

Shopping Center& Stadium

Network intermodalityPark & RideMetro / TEOR InterchangeRest areaBike-share areaSecure bicycle baseStructuring bus lines

Growth of TEOR ridership

BoardingsPerYear

Year

Comparison of network lines (2011)

Light Rail BRTBus

(structuring lines)NETWORK DATAMiles of lines 9.3 18.5 62.1Number of stations 31 53 770Number of vehicles 28 66 81Population served (rounded) 136,000 90,000 86,000Population served per km of line 14,591 4,860 1,384Cost of investment (rounded) 490,000,000€ 196,000,000€ 27,000,000€ Capital cost: Euros/miles 50,372,568€ 10,782,626€ 482,804€ OPERATING DATA Cost of operation (annual): 9,175,680€ 11,500,500€ 35,049,600€

Euros/mile 10.43€ 7.26€ 5.79€ Euros per passenger-mile 0.62€ 0.87€ 1.34€

Frequencypeak hours (common sections) 2.5/min 2/min

off-peak hours (common sections) 6/min 3/minJourney speed (MPH) 11.6 10.7 10.8Daily boardings 65,335 69,170 53,000Annual Boardings 14,662,000 13,748,800 11,182,300Miles per year 879,860 1,584,493 6,049,658

Comparison of Rail and BRT Costs

LightRail

LightRail

BRT

Bus(Line-haul)

BRT

Bus(Line-haul)

Project investment costs(€ million)

TEOR investment cost: € 6.5 million/km

Light Rail investment cost: € 31.3 million/km

Investment cost: € 196 million

Annual operating costs(€ thousands in 2011)

Operating costs: € 1,624,000

Dealing with Narrow Rights-of-Way

Two-way lanelength: 4.5 mi.

One-way lanelength: 3.7 mi.

Unmarked lanelength: 10.2 mi.

Vehicles travel on a two-lane busway with a concrete barrier separating them from general

traffic

Vehicles travel on a single (central or lateral), with a crossable concrete strip

separating them from general traffic

Vehicles circulate with general traffic, but with fully equipped

stations

Lane StructureTEOR operation with a single center bus-lane:

• Direction of bus travel alternates by sections

• Station is always in a reserved lane so stopped bus does not block traffic

TEOR Westbound

TEOR Eastbound

TEOR lane

Lane open to general traffic

Traffic and bus signals

Lane Structure

Dedicated corridor 2 protected lanes (5.9 km)

Dedicated corridor 2 reserved lanes (2.4 km)

Dedicated corridor 1 protected lane (1.7 km)

Dedicated corridor 1 alternating lane (3.5 km)

Unmarked lane (9.5 km)

Unequipped lane (6.8 km)

Lane Structure Video

Systems

• System operation support

• Sound systems for stations and buses

• Readouts

• Priority traffic lights

• Special signage

• Ticketing system

Signal priorityOversight by the central control

system

Transceiver tower at highest

point(Canteleu)

Flashing triangle indicates the

approaching TEOR has been detected and will have all green lights as

soon as unloading/loading is

confirmed by the driver

Station/Stop(located before the

intersection)

Signal and Priority Video

Optical guidance

Operation: The camera reads coded marks on the ground indicating the required route

A computer analyses the vehicle's position relative to the lane and transmits the required corrections to the steering wheel

Man-machine interface

Camera

Wheel encoder

Torque motor

IT network

Ground marks

Gaps

On average, vertical gaps are 4.25 cm high and horizontal gaps are between 4 and 5 cm wide

Vertical gap

Horizontal gap

Guidance System Video

Station/Stops

Design identical to that of tramway stations

Integration with Traffic

Integration with Traffic

Urban integration

Urban integration

Urban integration

Rolling stock

28 CITELIS vehicles (Diesel)

- Length: 17.8 m

- Capacity: 115 places including 40 seated

- Optical guidance system

- Accessible to persons with reduced mobility and pushchairs

- Air-conditioned

38 Irisbus Crealis Neo vehicles

(37 Diesel + 1 hybride)

- Sliding doors

- Complete low floor

- Escape through the top

Appendix:Some Details

• Financial support

• Stakeholders

• Optical guidance alerts

• Changes in alert rates

Financial support

Subsidies: € 82 million

• European Federation (EU) € 9.4 million

• Central government € 29.8 million

• Regional council € 18.6 million

• Department € 18.6 million

• Municipalities € 5.6 million (For participation in streetscape work, EDF and utility relocation)

Stakeholders in the project

• Phase 1:

– Contracting authority: Greater Rouen Urban Authority– Contracting Owner Support (COS): Sogeti– Project Managers: Systra, Thales, Artefac, Attica, Outside, Bailly

• End of phase 1:

– Contracting authority: Greater Rouen Urban Authority– COS: Systra– Project Managers / City center: Era, Thales, Territoires Sites et Cités– Project Managers / Suburbs: Ingetec, Folius, Outside– Project Manager / Systems: Setec

Optical guidance

5 categories of alerts • Guidance malfunction: failure of the optical guidance system (OGS): system reset. • Loss of guidance: momentary loss of guidance during operation: system reset.

• Vigilance: markings misread by the OGS.• Operational: alerts caused by operating conditions and the immediate environment of the vehicle during the guidance: system reset.

• Unclassified

Alert rate per 10,000 landings in 2011

1.13 per 10,000

0.02 per 10,000

0.01 per 10,000

0.30 per 10,000

0.07 per 10,000

1.53 in total

Change in alert rate

1. Out of tolerance2. Out of service3. Faulty guidance4. Loss of guidance5. False alarm (?)

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