the genoa situation

Municipality of GenoaResearch and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport

Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002

The Genoa situation

Vito M. CONTURSI



Population: 650.000Municipality Area: 240 kmqBuilt up Area: 73 kmqDensity: 8904 inhab/kmq

Road network: 1402 kmPT network: 903 km

modal split

44%

38%

14% 4% car

public transport

motorbike

walking

City of Genoa



• Transport demand management• Pollution reduction• Improvement in the land use

National and european projects:

• Press• Europrice• Progress• Europrice2

• Sutra• Moses• Goods distribution• Bus on demand

Genoa goals



The area pricing

Area pricing

Surface: ~ 1 %Population: ~ 4 %Parking lots: ~ 5 %



Traffic divider

OCR

Dectectors

Optical coverage

Detectors

PLANVIEW

SIDEVIEW

The system can:

• manage white lists up to 200.000 plates

• manage, in white list, italian and european plates

• have a recognition time less than 2 seconds 1800 veic/h per lane

• record, at local level, 25000 images

Tolling technology



Full-scale scheme: real people & real

money

Small group of volunteers

due to

Technical reasons

Political reasons



State of the art and current activities

• Technology installation is on-going• Alternative methodology for the demo developed

(volunteers based)• Recruitment activities (closed in november)• Demo starts in february 03



Increasing knowledge and information, acceptability becomes higher

Generally r.p. is seen as another tax need to move the perception towards a regulation measure

Conclusion



In progress Genoa has to test OCR technology

Solution in urban environment: OBE-based technology (?)

Tolling procedures

[1] Need to link car plate to

property(involvement of external actors)

[2] Money collection

(Legal aspects – Privacy - Lack of specific legislation)

Reliability

Good solution for enforcement (e.g. RTZ control) but problems with RP

Need to check all the plates that will be charged

Big amount of work for urban police

Main issues:



Political aspects

• Strong opposition of many subjects (e.g. shopkeepers)

• Need to perform a long and capillary dissemination activity, in order to improve knowledge and information

• Need to have a deep political debate

• Wide echo on newspapers

• Press position coming from hostile/negative to neutral

The debate is performed at a

local level

No clear link between political position and support/opposition to

r.p.

the genoa situation

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