Systematic Transfer of Innovative

Solutions for Public Transport: the

TIDE Experience

Website: http://www.tide-innovation.eu/

Twitter: @TIDE_Innovation

LinkedIn Group: Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe

Mission Statement

• Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe is a three year FP7 project that

started in September 2012

• Enhance the broad take-up of 15 innovative urban transport and mobility

measures throughout Europe to establish them as mainstream measures

Scope of activities

• Create networking opportunities

• Spread knowledge and provide

guidance on 15 inspiring transport

measures

• Develop a wide range of tools to aid

transferability of innovation and impact

analysis

• Work with 15 committed cities to

demonstrate how the actual

implementation of selected innovative

measures can be successfully prepared

Relevant TIDE measures

Cluster 1: New pricing measures

Milan – WSP Sweden

Cluster 2: Non-motorised transport

San Sebastian – Rupprecht consult

Cluster 3: Advanced network & traffic management to support traveller

information

Reading – Transporty Research Group University of Southampton Cluster 4: Electric vehicles

Rotterdam – Fraunhofer Institute

Cluster 5: Public transport organisation

BKK Budapest – University of Gdansk

Project coordinator: Polis

Technical coordinator: Rupprecht Consult

Cost-benefit analysis: Wuppertal Institut

Dissemination support: Eurocities

Efficient and convenient pricing and charging for

multimodal trips

• Schemes that combine fare and

one-point charging for multimodal trips.

• For example, park & ride paid with the public transport ticket.

• In the Netherlands, ‘Mobility Mixx’ is a scheme where travels can pay nationwide for public transport, bicycle hire, park & ride with one card.

Open-access server for applications-based traveller

information

• Growing use of smartphone technologies

• This technology can be used to provide travel information

• Facilitate 3rd party to develop applications to utilise data in open data

server

• Network information: congestion, car park occupancy, incidents,

roadworks, CCTV images, VMS

• Examples: UTMC (UK), Open Traffic

System – OTS (Germany), 5T systems

(Italy)

Improving bus punctuality by using bus priority

• Real time bus locations using Automatic vehicle location (AVL) system

• Varying levels of priority given to late buses • Improved reliability and regularity (maintain schedule) • Examples in London, Helsinki, Turin

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Inductive charging for public transport

• Inductive charging infrastructure can be used for several types of

vehicles simultaneously: buses, trams and in future cars as well

• Decreased battery size and reduced charging times

Creation of public transport management Bodies for

metropolitan areas

• Integrated planning for public transport

should be the responsibility of specialised

bodies which strengthen integration in the

service.

• Authorities could expand their powers

outside city boundaries, i.e. commuter shed

• An important element is revenue sharing

• Transport for London is the model for BKK

– the integrated transport authority of

Budapest.

Background:

• Since 2010, still in progress

• Growing number of employees

• Final tuning

• Preparation of BMT (new transport

development strategy with SUMP principles)

Aim of the measure:

• Transparency

• Integrated transport management

• More effective utilization of financial

resources

Creation of public transport management Bodies for

metropolitan areas

Marketing research as optimisation tool in public

transport

• Market research is common in most

sectors of the economy, but still

underused in public transport.

• In public transport it can be used to

predict future travel behaviour and

improve the current service.

• In Gdynia, marketing research

provides valuable information for the

optimisation of the supply side of public

transport.

Unified Multimodal Transport Model:

• Under development

• Large scale research process

• Expected to be ready in 2015 Q2

Aim of the measure:

• To recognize current and future market

needs

• Qualitative data on transport behaviour

• To improve transport service efficiency

Marketing research as optimisation tool in public

transport

Reducing the risk of starting something new

Reducing the risk when starting something new

Most European cities want to be innovative, but not all want to be the first to

implement a new measure.

- Financial: will we be able to afford the measure?

- Political: will the measure be accepted, and will citizens vote in favour of it?

- Effectiveness: will the measure solve the problems it is meant to solve?

- Implementation: will we be able to introduce the measure smoothly, without

delays or extra cost?

• Refining existing methodologies for

transferability analysis.

• Enhance the understanding of how

to successfully transfer innovative

measures from one city to another.

Transferability – understanding the context conditions

for innovation

Transferability methodology

(1) Mission statement/objectives and scoping

(2) Impacts of the measure

(3) Up-scaling/down-scaling need

(4) Main components and sub-components

(5) Level of importance of components

(6) Situation in the adopter city

(7) Conclusions

• A systematic

qualitative

methodology to analyse

the potential

transferability of an

innovative transport

measure from one city to

another

• Handbook for

transferability analysis

in urban transport and

mobility

Impact assessment – understanding the intrinsic value

of a measure

• Local authorities need guidance on the costs, benefits and overall impacts of

innovative urban transport measures

• Develop a simplified tool for impact analysis

• Fits a variety of TIDE measures

• Considers quantified and qualitative effects

Impact assessment methodology

The method is based on a combination of Multi-

Criteria Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Its complexity is adaptable to the proposed

measure’s size and data available

Includes quantified and qualitative effects

Visualizes the economic, social and

environmental effects of a measure

Handbook for impact assessment

TIDE offers methodologies for cities that want to implement innovative measures.

We answer two questions:

- Is it good for us? (Impact assessment)

- Are we ready? (Transferability assessment)

Apply for the TIDE awards!

Join the TIDE final conference: 15-16 September, Barcelona!

Website: http://www.tide-innovation.eu/

Twitter: @TIDE_Innovation

LinkedIn Group: Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe

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