Intelligent and efficient travelmanagement for European cities

CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG INFSO, ICT PSP PROGRAMME 2008-2

In-TimeIntelligent and Efficient Travel Management for European Cities

Will Personalized Intermodal Traveller Information on Mobile Devices Reduce Energy Consumption?

ITS World Congress 2011, Orlando

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Content

o The Project

o Concept of In-Time

o Methodology for environmental impact assessment

o Outlook

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In-Time – Frame Data

In-Time – Intelligent and Efficient Travel Management for European Cities

o Pilot Type B for CIP-ICT PSP-2008-2

o Project with 22 Partners, coordinated by AustriaTech

o Budget of project: 4,58 Mio EURO, of which 2,29 Mio EURO are funded by the EU

o Kick-off: 1st of April 2009

o Duration of project: 3 years

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Basic Idea of In-Time

Implementation of a pan-European multimodal Real-Time Travel Information System through the

o implementation of a standardised harmonised interface between operators and service providers,

o aiming at the reduction of the energy consumption of the single traveller by changing his travel behaviour.

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In-Time concept

Oslo

Vienna

Bucharest

BrnoMunich

Florence

Intermodal Real -Time Travel Information Service

Intermodal Real -Time Travel Data

Spatial Data

BUSINESS TRAVELLER

TOURIST/ PRIVATE TRAVELLER

OTHERS

REGIONALDISTRIBUTOR

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Infrastructure Operators (Road, PT,…) provide continuously up-dated data and services on an agreed data/service quality

RDSS “translates” different data into a standard format and provides them on a harmonised, standardised level to Transport Information Service Providers (TISPs)

Concept of the RDSS (Regional Data/Service Server)

TISPs get requests from their User Groups, fetch and merge relevant data from RDSS and provide them to their User Groups

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In-Time

Architectural concept

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In-Time system: a distributed architecture (SOA)

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DataData RDSS data in Pilot-specific format

Data Adapters to be implemented by each pilot

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Data Adapters to be implemented by TISPs

End user services

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Exposed In-Time interfaces (B2B CAI)

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In-Time information delivery

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Expected Impacts on the Environment

o reducing emissions through an improved traffic management and traveller information system: • pollutants and CO2 Emissions, • particle emissions, • noise, etc.

o lowering energy consumption by: • optimising traffic control (Eco-flow)

Methodologies - Overview

• Common methodology=> Executed in ALL test sites alikeo Assesses the environmental impact of the Modal shift

based on In-Time services

• Pilot site specific methodologies=> Exploit local opportunitieso Bucharest: Utilisation of modern traffic management

system & LED based traffic lightso Munich: Modal shift (simulation)o Vienna: Modal shift (detailed traffic model for emission

factor)

Common MethodologyStatistical Data & Test User survey

Goals:• Understand the estimated impact of In-Time services on hands of

statistical data and test user survey results

Method:• Based on method of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas

Inventories (TFI) of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):Estimation of local emission factor based on statistical data of fleet compositions of private cars and fuel consumption

• Estimation of total road mileage reduction in each test site on hands of the test user survey

• Derivation of energy and emission savings based on statistical data in correlation with mileage reduction

Note: this methodology is executed in ALL test sites alike

Bucharest: Measurement of Environmental Impact

Goals:• Understand reduced emissions by utilisation of modern

traffic management system and In-Time services• Understand the direct energy reduction by introduction

of energy saving technology

Method:• Comparison of fuel consumption before and after the

introduction of In-Time services• Measurement of energy consumption before and after

LED based traffic lights are introduced on a large scale

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Enlargement of the consortium by follower cities

• Vienna + Lower Austria + Burgenland• Florence + Tuscany region• Brno + South Moravian Region• Munich + Bavaria• Prague• Bilbao• Reading• São Paulo• Beijing

More than 3.000 end-users are subscribed

to the In-Time services

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The In-Time package

The full technical specification of the interface is included. Service and data structures are provided with complete WSDL and XML schema definitions.

Introductory guides are included with references to full specification documents.

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Contact Information

Martin Böhm

AustriaTech

Federal Agency for Technological Measures Ltd.

Email: martin.boehm@austriatech.org

www.austriatech.org

www.in-time-project.eu