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Results and development

Andrea Campagna, CTL – Sapienza

Margherita Ambrosi, Municipality of Perugia

Outline

• The LIMIT4WEDA project

• Origin of the project

• Project description and results

• Conclusions and further developments

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LIMIT4WEDA

• Light Mobility and Information Technologies

FOR Weak Demand Areas (MED programme,

2010-2013)

• To enhance, support, integrate local public

transport making it more flexible and less

expensive

• Experimentation of infomobility, new

technologies and sensitization of decision

makers


Origin of the project: CHALLENGES

• Ageing population, shrinking of cities,

suburbanisation, urban sprawl.

• Supremacy of car-based mobility and oil

dependency.

• Request of alternative mobility to cars.

• Increase of transport demand.


Origin of the project: OPPORTUNITIES

• More efficient transportation technologies,

such as electric vehicles.

• Car sharing services: from private ownership

to collaborative consumption.

• Modal shifts toward walking, cycling or

public transportation.

• Strategic urban planning.


Origin of the project: WEAK DEMAND AREAS

• Traditional scheduled public transport

services is very expensive and inefficient in

WDA:

– Requires the articulation of different routes with several stops.

– Standard vehicles (buses) can travel the most of the route with a few people on board.

• Need of unconventional and/or innovative

transport modes and services


Origin of the project: ACCESSIBILITY

• Low demand for public transport services.

• The issue of public transport in rural areas

does not play an important role in policies.

• Innovative and flexible transport systems to

increase mobility for rural dwellers.

• Unconventional public transport services to

ensure accessibility to municipal services to

people not living in urban centers.


Partnership


LAZIO REGION

PERUGIA

MIEMA

PAVIA

BIC EPIRUS

AEM

BNC

MURCIA

CCEIA

TROODOS

Approach

• A holistic approach used to individuate both

success factors and barriers to the real

implementation of solutions:

– Analysis of past and current experiences.

– Investigation of implementation processes.

– Pilot projects and transferability analysis.

• Guidelines for decision makers.


Achievements of the project

• How to identify and characterize WDAs

• Characteristics of solutions for WDAs

• Types of innovative solutions and experiences

in EU

• Legal framework analysis

• Pilot projects of specific solutions


Example of WDAs identification


Latium, 2009

Considering:

- Resident

population

- Hamlets and

scattered houses

- Daily movements

Clustering:

- According to

distances

- Specific criteria

for priorities

Characteristics of innovative solutions

• Demand reponsive

– In depth demand forecast required.

– Flexibilty can led savings.

• Availability to share

– Car-sharing, ride-sharing

– Involves the users to change mindset

• Intermodal and multipurpose


Innovative experiences in EU

• Integrated ticketing

• Infomobility

• On-demand transport services

• Sharing-based systems


Examples: Integrated ticketing

• Travel using several transport

modes and/or several transport

operators within the same mode

• One ticket with integrated

information, reservation and

sales systems

• High-level of public-private

coordination and co-operation


Examples: Infomobility

• Generally refers to the

provision of en-route travelling

information to public

transport users

• Infomobility enhances

convenience and confidence

when travelling with various

transport modes


Examples: on-demand transport services

• Adapt itineraries and

timetables to suit specific

transport demands

• Improve accessibility, reduce

social exclusion, reduce costs

• Generally need public co-

funding


Examples: sharing-based systems

• Carpooling, carsharing or, more

in general, ridesharing, based on

the sharing of car journeys so

that more than one person

travels in a car.

• Offer individuals many of the

benefits of personal vehicle use

(e.g., convenience, flexibility)

without the costs and hassles of

ownership


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PILOT PROJECTS of LIMIT4WEDA


CAR-POOLING

La Valletta (Malta)

TROODOS EXPRESS

Troodos (Cyprus)

«C’ENTRO IN BICI»

Pavia (Italy)

PRONTOBUS

Perugia (Italy)

PILOT PROJECTS

• Infomobility to provide

alternative innovative

transport applications

from Weak Demand

Areas to the

administrative centre of

Valletta and Floriana

• Internet based car-

pooling network

operated by MIEMA,

Malta


CAR-POOLING

PILOT PROJECTS

• Troodos Regional Tourism

Board and Cyprus Center for

European and International

Affairs

• Pilot project to enable the

travel to the region of

Troodos and within, through

an infomobility system made

of thematic centres,

infopoints, to complement

dedicated bus routes


TROODOS EXPRESS

PILOT PROJECTS

• The Province of Pavia

implemented a pilot bike

sharing system in

Rivanazzano Terme

• Public Bicycle System for

workers, commuters,

residents, students, and

visitors in the Oltrepo

Pavese rural area


«C’ENTRO IN BICI»

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PILOT PROJECTS

• On-demand bus

service

• Operated by the

Municipality of

Perugia


PRONTOBUS

PRONTOBUS: scenario

• Higher number of inhabitants,

corresponding to more

potential user of the service

• Conventional bus service

already operating, with the

possibility to convert it into a

more flexible system

• Interchange node in san Marco,

where users can find high

frequency conventional bus

service connecting to the main

destination in the urban area


PERUGIA

SAN

MARCO

Cenerente

Canneto

Colle Umberto

Maestrello

S. Giovanni del

Pantano

PRONTOBUS: the pilot service

• An innovative service completely flexible on demand:

• No fixed timetable nor fixed paths

• Users book the service through a call center by

choosing the place and time of departure/arrival

• A software managed by the operator of the call center

sending messages to a terminal onboard the bus

• Two kinds of booking:

– an “early” booking

– a “real time” booking


PRONTOBUS: concept of the service


USERS

MUNICIPALITY OF PERUGIA

CONTACT

CENTRE

BACK OFFICE

CONTROL ROOM

TRANSPORT SERVICES

PRONTOBUS: components


Booking

Planning

Executing

Monitoring

PRONTOBUS: advantages

• The preservation of usual users already close

to the previous traditional service

• Temporal flexibility, very effective to capture

occasional users

• Spatial flexibility, very strategic in an area

with a road network with low geometric

features


PRONTOBUS: analysis of results


Before After

Pax/day 912 125

Km/day 518 350

Pax/km 1,76 2,93

Cost/km 2,03 1,59

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1000

2000

3000

4000

Passengers

GUIDELINES

• To provide the practitioners a new approach

transport services in WDAs

• They offer how:

– To understand and characterize WDAs

– To be aware of innovative transport solutions, their

pros and cons

– To acquire methods to evaluate the transferability

– To acquire methods to measure the accessibility

• They collected case histories


CONCLUSIONS

• LIMIT4WEDA as

– An experience of TERRITORIAL COOPERATION:

different countries having similar problems work

together to find out and share innovative

solutions

– An experience of AWARENESS RAISING: users

and decision makers acknowledged the benefits

of alternative transport modes

– An environment for FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS:

partners exlpoited their experiences or are up to


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Thanks for your attention!

Andrea Campagna, CTL – Sapienza

Margherita Ambrosi, Municipality of Perugia

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