"Cities of the future: towards low carbon
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economies"
MODERN
MObility, Development and Energy
use ReductioN
Public Transport City Tour in Craiova
07 of May 2012
Gabriel Vladut
Project Coordinator
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CIVITAS
City-Vitality-Sustainability
For a cleaner and efficient
transport in cities
Craiova – The first town in Romania that coordinates a
consortium of municipalities at European level.
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Civitas Plus Program – MODERN Mission
The increase of life quality in cities by reducing pollution (CO2
emissions) generated by transport, of dependency of gasoline
and diesel, the implementation of some reduction measures of
energy consumptions, respect to the environment.
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Participants
22 Partners connected to Municipalities
from:
(3) Craiova, Romania,
(4) Brescia, Italy,
(5) Vitoria, Spain,
(6) Coimbra, Portugal
And support units from
(2) Belgium
(2) Italy
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Public authorities – Town
Halls
Public transport operators
Research units
Universities
Non-profit organisations
SMEs
Budget of the MODERN Project = 15 million Euros
Considerations
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The implementation of the MODERN Project co-financed by the European
Commission will bring the increase of life quality in cities by traffic
decongestion, the pollution reduction, of urban noise, of energy
consumption, and the promotion of a life style based on the car dependency
reduction.
The achieving of these objectives chime with the communitarian purpose
that in 2020 to reach: 20% consumption from renewable energy sources,
minimum 10% use of renewable sources in transport, the improvement of
the energetic efficiency with 20% and 20% reduction of greenhouse effect.
The objectives of the MODERN project are in perfect accordance with the
EU “Green Paper” document and Action Plan regarding the public transport.
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Integrated measures in European policies
The measures of the project outline a balance between the large scale
actions of the application based on the existence and the
commercialization of the available technologies, such as:
• The renewal of the public transport with ecologic vehicles,
• Technological systems for the traffic administration and info mobility,
• Access restrictions and interchangeable systems,
With the use of the advance methodologies:
• Energy saving,
• Alternative fuels,
• Load distribution.
The first type of actions is the most important from the structure of the project
with a massive impact over the state of the cities, while the second
contributes to the knowledge amplification, to the increase of the
qualitative level of the mobility instruments and will set the bases of ulterior
developments.
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Objectives (1/2)
• The increase of the quality and efficiency of the
public transport system (from the point of view of
the environment and services), increasing the
number of users.
• The limit of energy loss and the sustaining of using
the ecologic fuels between citizens.
• Sustaining the improvement effort of the public
transport through a series of measures capable of
limiting the use of private cars.
• The decrease of the number of road accidents.
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Objectives (2/2)
• Offering alternatives for types of non-polluting
mobility (first the bicycle) improving the safety and
increasing the life limit of users.
• The increase of the technological endowment of
the cities as means of sustaining smarter mobility
policies and as service for the citizens.
• Dissemination, as much as possible, of a
sustainable environment among citizens and the
increase of the degree of making aware the society
over the importance of these themes.
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MODERN: A comprehensive approach
Project for large
scale
demonstration, TTI,
involving
municipalities
Research
Demo
Investment Dissemination
Independent evaluation +
External monitoring +
European large scale awareness & dissemination +
Development of recommendations regarding policies
Result: Image and experience at European level
Craiova – Horizontal activities
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1) Alternative fuels; “environment-clean” vehicles and “energetic efficient”
Buses fueled with bio-diesel and efficient-driven trams with the reduction of
the energetic consumptions.
2) Collective transport and its integration in other alternatives
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Planning of the lines extension around the city
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E-ticketing integrated system for trams and buses.
3) Management strategies: flexible access to the centre of the city using
maxi-taxi
4) Mobility management, marketing, information and education
The correlation of the transport contracts between the main companies and
PTC, through a software and an operational map program in order to
obtain “green light” in public transport
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Horizontal activities (2)
5) Safe and solid infrastructure, efficient means of transport
Cooperation with the police, the creation of a monitoring centre, the buses/
trams endowment with video cameras using the GPS, GPRS systems.
6) New mobility services for the public transport vehicles; a less cardependent lifestyle.
Contracts - specific users (the industrial areas from the East-West / Craiova)
7) Logistics for urban goods transport, new concepts for a better distribution
A basic plan for a logistics connecting node – special stations for bus and
tram and a transport program for 4 new built hypermarkets in Craiova.
8) Innovative telematics systems for traffic management
Application GPS, GPRS; info mobility and management instrument for data
gathering; rapid transit line for buses: preferential traffic light rules
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Implemented systems
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Components for adapting 10 buses to bio-diesel
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9 efficiently-driven trams with the reduction of energetic consumption
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80 buses and 27 trams, each endowed with tickets / cards validators,
GPS and board computers, connected to a traffic management
centre (dispatch)
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30 automated machines for tickets / cards connected to the dispatch
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20 stations endowed with electronic panels
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15 buses and 10 stations endowed with video surveillance system
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3 electronic access barriers in the central area of the city
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Traffic management centre (dispatch)
Chopers – advanteges and functions
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- Assures the input for the corresponding electrical engines
for the run-brake regime;
- CANopen communication with the board computer for
commands and for the monitoring of the status of the tram;
- Vehicle maintenance data storage (hours of function,
kilometers, maximum speed, minor errors or critical errors,
etc.).
- Diagnosis system, data transmission to a computer, fault
detection, off-line analysis.
- Some of the main advantages:
- energy economy with up to 30-40%;
- increase of reliability;
- assisted maintenance
- increase of safety in exploitation and comfort for
passengers;
Results
In 2010, at Malmo, Sweden,
during the CIVITAS Forum,
Craiova was nominated as
European Innovative City, for
technological innovation on
urban green transport.
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