INVESTING IN OUR COMMON FUTURE

Energy Efficiency in Public Transport Workshop

Limerick City 28th Nov 2014

VISION

REPUTE promotes innovation and engagement in the efficient use of energy

in public transport by means of information provision, enterprise

stimulation, and policy change recommendations.

Overview

The REPUTE project is one of six transport projects funded by the EU Atlantic Area programme 2007–13

All six projects share themes of inter-modality and inter-operability, smart ticketing and journey planning, and cooperation in public/private partnerships

REPUTE is the only project to focus on renewable energy in public transport in a rural or semi-rural context

FUNDING

Funders: Atlantic Area & ERDFDuration: Jan 2014 – June 2015

PARTNERS

Outputs

REPUTE will establish the following:

1. REPUTE Workshops 2. REPUTE Pilot Tests3. REPUTE Conference4. REPUTE Guide

Workshops in Each Region

Responsible Partner: Fundacion Asturiana de la Energia

Goals: To create a forum in each region which will inform, disseminate, debate and embed the value to be generated from the technology innovations and enterprise for renewable energy in public transport

Pilot Tests

Responsible Partner: Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste

Goals: To demonstrate how market stimulation in each region can drive trial and growth in usage of new innovative options for intermodality and interoperability with the result that innovations in the use of renewable energy in public transport can trigger acceptance, change attitudes and behaviours and become the new standard /norm.

Portuguese Pilot • EV rental or acquisition:

– 12 Electric vehicles (EVs)– 12 Fotovoltaic charging stations– Monitoring and management digital web platform

Electric vehicle FV charging station

Portuguese Pilot

• Make available a 100% EV, supplied with a FV system (applied on a car park shadow frame)

• Located at the central coach station in each of the 12 municipalities

• The FV system will feed-in the energy produced in the coach station building when not charging the EV

• EV usage monitoring and management through a digital web platform

Portuguese Pilot

Innovation – • The EV as a complement of existing bus routes• Users register and schedule an EV through a web

platform/portal

The Scottish Pilot

Scottish Pilot

• Fort William and surrounding areas pop 7,000

• Cycle use is 3-5%, bus use 11-14%

• Administered by HiTrans

• PTP’s in Key Locations (schools & workplaces)

The Scottish Pilot

Scottish Pilot

• Hopes to increase cycle use towards the Cycling Action Plan Target of 10%

• Specific interventions to encourage behaviour change towards – walking, cycling & bus useage

Conference Tour

Responsible Partner: EIGSI

Goals: The Goal is to engage policy makers from transnational level down to regional level to discuss, be informed and to disseminate the REPUTE findings. And similar to the workshops to inform, disseminate, debate and embed the value to be generated from the technology innovations and enterprise for renewable energy in public transport. There will be five final Conferences; one each in Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Northern Ireland and France.

Publish a REPUTE Guide

Responsible Partner: Oxford Brookes University

Goals: The aim of the Guide is to help policy makers, transport operators and other stakeholders; to inform them of what is the state of the art with regards public transport and renewables; what other EU projects have learned / established; what other pilots have been tried / are being tried and what best practice is derived from that.

REPUTE Project – WP2 – The Guide

Guide to energy and

publicly-accessible transport in rural areas

THE GUIDE - APPROACH

The REPUTE approach is to consider the particular transport challenges in the Partner regions and to focus on possible solutions that meet viable implementation criteria.

The Partner regions are primarily on the Atlantic seaboard. They are not heavily populated but significant distances often separate townships. Thus typical journey distances may be long, the journeys may be multi-modal and the cost quite substantial.

There may also be a significant input of renewable energy into the local electricity grid or available as biofuel.

In assembling this report we have considered this balance of challenges, demographics and geography, against best practice that is relevant to appropriate publicly-available* transport solutions.

There is a significant focus on community-led energy and community-led transport schemes

*Publicly-available transport solutions include buses, taxis, cars in car-share schemes, bicycles and pedelecs in bike-share schemes, trams and trains.

CONTENTS1. Introduction

1.1 Sustainability in transport

1.2 Policy context

1.3 Renewable energy in transport

1.4 Intelligent transport systems

1.5 Behaviour change and modal shift

1.6 Approach and scope of report

2. Current situation in the partners’ regions

2.1 Regional descriptions

2.2 Overview of transport and regional issues

2.3 Methodology for presentation and comparison of regional data

2.4 Analysis of regional data

3. Regional mobility challenges and possible solutions

3.1 Current situation

3.2 Transport context

3.3 Energy context

CONTENTS

4. Suggestions and directions

4.1 Modal split

4.2 Socio-technical transitions

4.3 Alternative and renewable energy

4.4 Accessible and intelligent transport of people and goods

5. Case studies of good practice

5.1 Within the partners’ regions

5.2 Outside the partners’ regions

Bibliography and Appendices

CURRENT SITUATION IN THE PARTNERS’ REGIONS

Section 2 contains a summary and analysis of the Partners’ regions. The analysis employs a REPUTE Index, based on our own criteria, to

provide a rational basis for comparing the regional information that was gathered through surveys and information sources.

In this Section we rank different transport issues and actions, and compare these across the regions.

Methodology for presentation and comparison of regional data.

The qualitative REPUTE Index comprises a possible 100 points.

19 criteria with different weightings.

6 criteria (30 points) are related to regional factors that define the

make-up and composition of the transport system currently. These criteria

include urban agglomeration density, road and cycle path density,

frequency of public transport and energy type used in public transport.

13 criteria (70 points) are related to performance and implementation

against transport sustainability criteria. These were defined to encompass

aspects such as air quality, policies and incentives that encourage the use

of public transport, publicly-accessible public transport options, renewables

used in public transport, intelligent transport systems, projects and pilots.

REGIONAL MOBILITY CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Issues People living in rural areas travel ~50% further than their city counterparts

and a large proportion of their total mileage is made by car or bus Lack of access to public transport hubs Lack of integration of different modes of transport Lack of coherent local policy Lack of real-time information

UK schemes include Wheels to Work – including pedelecs

The UK DfT currently recommends the concept of total transport – the integration of transport services provided by different agencies and operators, eg combining a local bus service with hospital transport

The NUMBER 2:GENeco Bio-Bus, Bristol-Bath

This bus, introduced into the Bath-Bristol Airport commuter route, uses human waste and food scraps. The bus, dubbed the ‘poo bus’ or ‘the number 2’, is the first of its kind in the UK and it fills up with biomethane which is produced at the Bristol Sewage Works at Avonmouth, which converts food waste and human sewage into biomethane by the anaerobic digestion route.

The 40-seater bus has a range of 300 km (186 miles) on a full tank which is equivalent to the waste per year from five people. These buses produce approximately 30% less greenhouse gases than their diesel equivalents and improve the air quality in city centres. The biomethane is also purified to ensure there is no smell from any emissions. Similar pilots have been investigated in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Canada.

Bristol's sewage treatment works handles around 75 million cubic metres of sewage and 35,000 tonnes of food waste every year, and is capable of producing 17 million cubic meters of gas a year, enough to power 8,300 homes.

AVAILABILITY OF GUIDE

It will be available in draft form by the end of DecemberWe intend to update it with inputs and information from

regional workshops during Spring 2015A final version will be available in June 2015

Sustainable Vehicle Engineering

Thank you for listening

CONTACT

Terry WaughAction RenewablesBlock C, Unit 1. Boucher Business StudiosGlenmachan Place, Belfast, BT12 6QH

E: terry.waugh@actionrenewables.co.ukT: 0044 2890 727763W: www.reputeproject.eu F: fb.com/reputeeuT: @REPUTE_eu