Civitas Workshop – Effective solutions for green urban transport
24 April 2012AthensAlan Lewis, TTR on behalf of:Lars Elgaard Thomsen,Public Transport Authority of North Denmark
CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
24 April • Athens • Lars Elgaard Thomsen
Outline
1. Public Transport Authority of North Denmark
2. Aalborg and its traffic challenges
3. ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
4. IT Architecture
5. Today's challenges
6. New strategy on passenger information
CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
Public Transport Authority of North Denmark(the north Jutland region)
Responsible for planning and administration (including e.g. quality and use of ITS). The municipalities/region order traffic and service level. NT organizes the traffic and ensure proper coordination
Buys the traffic from private companies through public tendering (EU regulations)
Include 2 local train lines, 400 buses, 25 private bus contractors and 32 million passengers per year
Special transports for e.g. disabled people, hospitals and specialized schools. Combined trips carried out by 600 taxis and mini buses: 700.000 trips per year
24 April • Athens • Lars Elgaard Thomsen
CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
24 April • Athens • Lars Elgaard Thomsen
Facts
Total population200,000 inhabitants
City population120,000 inhabitants
Municipality area:1,144 km2
Road network:2000 km
CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
Aalborg and its traffic challengesThe urban city area is divided by the Limfjord
Only 2 road connections cross the fiord
Bottleneck and vulnerable infrastructure
Local traffic as well as regional and interregional traffic
The city of Aalborg
CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
Traffic situation
• Rising congestion on main roads in peak hour• Congestion in inner city, on bridge and approach
roads to bridge. Not only in peak hour.• Congestion and size of peak hour fast rising.• Ageing population• High number of urban dwellers• High car dependency
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• Relatively heavy use of bikes
• Decreasing numbers of children cycling to school
• Decreasing numbers of passengers in Public Transport
• Increasing number of cars in inner city
Modal share in Aalborg
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ARCHIMEDES projects in Aalborg• Bio-diesel demonstration in buses and postal service vehicles• Green tourist shuttle bus• Travel smart card testing• Online traffic information• Improved parking information system • Bicycle campaign for schools• Commuter travel plans• Safer environment for soft modes• Speed reduction zones• Bicycle commuter route• 190 city bikes• Car sharing and car pooling campaigns• BYPAD – Bicycle Policy Audit• Environmental zone• Eco- and safe driving• Real time travel planning on the mobile phone• Information screens in buses• Congestion monitoring and reduction
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Real time travel planning on the mobile phoneTravel smart card
Online traffic information Information screens in buses
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IT Architecture – Basic philosophy
• Fully integrated system
• Small replaceable standard modules
• Open standard interfaces, protocols and data formats
• Standard hardware – Standard software – standard operating system
• No monopoly and freedom of choice within the market
• Best performance / price ratio
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CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
IT Architecture – Core elements
• Bus PC’s in all buses
• Real Time Information at terminals, train stations, super stops, inside buses, on the Internet, SMS, WAP
• Compact terminal – IT controlled
• Bus priority at intersections
• Travel Card in all buses
• Infotainment in all buses
• Mobile services
• Personalised homepage for traffic information
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CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
Compact terminal
Bus priority
AVL-server
BusPC
PubTrans
GPRS /WLAN
Realtime
Timetables
Travel Card
Operation monitoring
We have the full infrastructure but especially our information towards the customers can constantly be improved.Today bus passengers expect that public transport uses all common channels for information. We want to give the passengers the best possible but it’s difficult always to follow the latest technology.
• New opportunities comes every day
• In the mobile area developments happpens very, very quickly
• Many different operating systems for phones and PCs
• No direct integration with others traffic operators
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• From the specification in 2007/2008 until now many things have happened concerning smart phones and the possibilities.
• NT started with an App and this winter we launched a new HTML-5 version
Real time travel planning on the mobile phone
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CIVITAS ARCHIMEDES in Aalborg
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• Still have the same basic system but in the future:• Providing data (good and reliable ) and then let
other make the services in cooperation with other transport companies or by private companies.
• Delivering timetable data and realtime data to the national travel planner and then have open, standard interfaces, API and other channels supporting different solutions for passenger information
• Displays• Homepages• Smartphones
IT Architecture – New strategy
Next:• Correspondence security• Travel guarantee
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Event • Date • Location • Speaker
Thank you!
Alan Lewis, TTR
on behalf of:
Lars Elgaard Thomsen
www.nordjyllandstrafikselskab.dk