Sino-Italian Cooperation Programme Italian Ministry of Environment, Beijing Municipality, SEPA

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© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac

presentation by

Marino MazzonDirector, ITS Division, Thetis S.p.A., Venice, Italyon behalf of the JV Thetis, Fata DTS, Ecotema, Atac

Sino-Italian Cooperation ProgrammeItalian Ministry of Environment,Beijing Municipality,SEPA

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The reference scenario

• The “Green Olympics” strategy of the Chinese Government

• The Sino-Italian Coooperation Programme

• The Beijing traffic congestion in the city centre

• The traffic effects on air quality

• The need of an innovative sustainable mobility intervention

• ITS-TAP = Intelligent Transport System - Traffic Air Pollution

• Objective: Mitigate the traffic originated emissions in the city centre through a combined action of on-occasion traffic limitation and public transport boosting and advanced management


The SICP, Sino-Italian Cooperation Programme

• An implementation measure of the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism

• Italian side: – IMET (Italian Ministry for Environment and

Territory) in cooperation with Italian Embassy Italian Foreign Commerce Institute

• Chinese side: – SEPA (State Environmental Protection

Administration)– MOST (Ministry of Science and

Technology)– Beijing Municipal Government– Shanghai Municipal Government– Academy of Social Sciences

Cooperation areas:• Energy saving • Renewable energy

sources• Reduction of coal

consumption• Sustainable agriculture• Traffic emissions

mitigation

• Some 20 ongoing projects

• about 70 M euro grants• over 40 Italian and

Chinese partnering organizations involved

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Basic considerations for sustainable mobility in urban areas

• Quality of environment in urban areas is also heavily determined by traffic and in general by mobility strategies

• Improving environment means also improving mobility

• Possible combined actions (among others):

– access limitation to central areas in case of heavy pollution

– Encourage use of public transport through bus localization services, bus lanes control, traffic light priority, parking services, information service

– Integrated management of urban delivery services and waste collection

– Encourage car pooling and car sharing

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The mix towards sustainable mobility

Low or Zero Emission vehicles

Geographical infosystem

Bus lane control

Environmentmonitoring

Planning

Atc

GPS

PCar ParkSystem

Traffic lightmanagement

Intelligentbus stops

Variable messagesystem (privatetransport)

Infrastructuremanagement

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VideoSurveillance

Informationvia GSM

The municipalityactions

Integrated mobility and

environmental management

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The situation in Beijing

• 2.3 million vehicles (and increasing)

• 1 million vehicles are old-type (under Euro I standard)

• Highly populated area - energy consumption - pollution from heating

- pollution from traffic

• 45 % of days in 2002 did not meet the national standard

• Various actions taken, but not enough

• The issue is: improve air quality

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the ITS-TAP concept Traffic counters and tag readers

Air quality stations

The 2nd inner ring road

Forbiddencity

• Focus area: within the second ring road

• concept: when air pollution is predicted to exceed a certain threshold, then activate two actions:

– prevent access to the ring road area to “yellow tag” cars (1)

– enhance public transport service

• implementation: integrated management of

– air quality monitoring and forecast

– traffic limitation – bus transport (2)

(1) Yellow tag cars are identified and classified as the most polluting

(2) Buses are those connecting the Olympic village and the city centre

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System configuration and users

air qualitymonitoring

Traffic + yellow tagmonitoring

busAVM,

dispatching

trafficcentre

datacentre

BTMBEPB

BPT

ITS-TAP system

A regulated system: traffic limitation is dynamic and selective; strategies are variable; public transport is flexible

Cooperation among various administrations in Beijing

EMC

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6 fixed stations- analysers for

SO2, NOx, PM10, CO, O3, benzene, reactive HC;

- samplers for Metals and BaP;- meteorological Instruments;- atmospheric stability monitors

30 saturation stations- passive samplers for

NO2, NOx, SO2, NH3, O3, BTX;- samplers for particulate matter

3 mobile units- analyzers for CO, NOx, particulate matter

3 mobile emission analysers

Data Quality Control Centre.

AQMSAir Quality Monitoring System

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TMSTraffic Monitoring System

22 monitoring stations, each composed of:

• 3 radars (one per lane) with triple technology(doppler, ultrasonic and passive infrared) for incoming traffic monitoring and classification

• 1 miniature radar for outgoing traffic flow monitoring

• OCR cameras for license plate recognition

• Local control unit

8 noise sensors

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PTMSPublic Transport Management System

Operations Centre - operator consoles - application and data base servers- service planning software - AVM and service analysis software

200 bus onboard systems- onboard computer- driver terminal- WiFi, GPRS communication- passenger info- passenger counters

20 bus stops info displays - with WLAN and GPRS

3 depot systems - with WLAN and connection to Operations Centre

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The PTMS system configuration

Controlcentre

Controlcentre GPRSGPRS

depotsdepots stopsstopsOnboardPC systems

OnboardPC systems •LINE J4 5 MN

•LINE J6 ARR

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The bus onboard systems

Air analysersTicketingmachines

Informationpanels

SafetyTV cameras

Passengercounters

Enginedata

interfaces

Onboard computer and

Driver terminal

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The Data Centre (concept)

Functions in ITS-TAP:

Traffic/environment predictor model on GIS

Data base management

Bus fleet management

Interface with City Traffic Management Authority

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ITS-TAP Project planTask Name Duration

DETAIL DESIGN 6 m

Kick off meeting - Site Inspection 1 m

Basic Design 4 m

Basic review meeting 1 m

Detail Design 2 m

Detail review meeting 1 m

PROCUREMENT ASSEMBLY DELIVERY 6 m

Custom Softw are Develompemt 6 m

Procurement and Assembly 4 m

Delivery 2 m

ON SITE CIVIL WORKS (external activity) 6 m

INSTALLATION 6 m

Softw are Tuning 3 m

TMS installation 6 m

AQMS installation 6 m

PTMS installation 6 m

Data Center installation 2 m

TEST 3 m

Test and Validation 3 m

START UP 3 m

Commisioning 2 m

Performance and Acceptance Test 1 m

TRAINING 12 m

Training 12 m

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design

delivery

installation

test

startup

training

2005 2006

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Some specific benefits of ITS-TAP approach

• use AQMS into a practical action scheme (measurements –-> actions)

• Improve public transport efficiency through advanced service planning and real time monitoring(some 5% emissions reduction expected from public transport)

• dynamic zone access limitations and real time control (reasonable mitigation and enforcement)

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The Italian Consortium

Thetiswww.thetis.it

- System Integration- Data Centre with Traffic Environmental Model- Public Transport Management System

Fata DTSwww.fatadts.it

- Traffic Monitoring Stations

Ecotemawww.ecotema.it

- Air Quality Monitoring Stations

Atac (Rome Public Transport Agency)www.atac-roma.it

- bus service planning procedures and training

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The ITS-TAP Beijing partners

Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau

Beijing Public Transport Holdings

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Sino-Italian Cooperation Programme Italian Ministry of Environment, Beijing Municipality, SEPA