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Traffic Negative Effects

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Traffic jams

Pollution

Waste of time Stressed citizens

Productivity reduction

External costs

Long cruising for parking

Italy is the country with the highest numebr of cars per person (0.6) excluding Luxemburg and this

condition inevitably create problems

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Bergamo Situation

Public transports and cycling do

not receive the attention they

should deserve

Even if according to some surveys (ISFORT) citizens will

be willing to use public transports for the same traveltime

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In Bergamo there is an extensive use of car because the alternatives are unattractive

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Bergamo Situation

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The Bergamos situation is not a negative exception in Italy, but it is the common state ofart in all

the country. Italy is in backwardness conditions respect to the north European countries in terms of

efficient and eco-friendly transports.

No innovativeand sustainable

solutions fortransportspoor

Governmentinvestments

Car is an hardlyreplaceable keyelement of our city

INCREASING TRAFFIC

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Two ways to solve the problem

To solve this problem there are 2 solutions: the development of alternative and efficient mean of

transports (private or public) or a proper implementation of a traffic management system

Alternative andefficient means

of trasport

Traffic

ManagementSystem

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Traffic Management

In dense urban areas, traditional construction of new capacity is cost-prohibitive and often physically

impossible

Bergamo has no a lot of opportunities to

increase his capacity and physical

infrastructures

The current crisis of mobility can be solved with

efficient urban planning and new technologies

applied to traffic management

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Bergamo Traffic Management

Long queue and paralyzed trafficin Bergamo and the surrounded

area during work days (Bergamo,

Milan, Brescia)

Poor system of trafficmanagement :

.Traffic data from existing solutionsare highly inaccurate.

.No vehicle detection monitors

installed. Monitoring traffic flow from closedcircuit television videos (unreliable

and time-consuming task)

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What does Bergamo need?

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Intelligente useof

infrastructures

Real time

info

Citizensdistributed and

better decisions

Prediction

from

hystorical

data

Advantages forinhabitants and

authorities

. ICT technologies such as

microcontrollers and sensor

. Informaton received on Pc

or apps for smartphones

. inhabitants can be active

participants, enhancing the

quality of the traffic

management

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Parking

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Between 8% and 74% of traffic in congested downtown areas is caused by

people cruising for parking, spending between 3.5 and 14 minutes

searching for a space each time they park

Bergamo limits:. A lot of parking in narrow streets.. No wide parking spaces. No uniforme management of privateand public parking areas

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[Smart mobility]

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