INTEGRATED TRANSPORT CHAINS Transparencies 2003 EU-funded Urban Transport Research Project Results TRANSPORT TEACHING MATERIAL.

INTEGRATED TRANSPORT CHAINS

Transparencies 2003

EU-funded Urban Transport Research Project Results

www.eu-portal.net

TRANSPORT TEACHING MATERIAL


DEFINITION

Scales:• Socio-economic environment• Mobility policy• Transport and Land-use Planning• Interchange surrounding area• Interface infrastructure.

Points of wiew:• Policy and Institutional issues

• Management and operational issues

• Planning, design and implementation


OBJECTIVES AND SKILLS

• Overview of intermodality

• Factors related to “Integration”

• Actual tendencies in Interchange


2 Land Use Policy

3 Economic Policy

4 Sociocultural Policy

5 Environmental & Energy Policy

Public Transport

Car

Transport

Walking & Cycling

Transport networks

1 Mobility Policy and Transport systems: problem pointed out: Transport Chains


CHALLENGES

• Sociological challenges

• Political challenges

• Legal and Regulatory challenges

• Technical challenges


OVERVIEW• Integrated Transport Chains

• Transport System Elements

• Transport Interchange: vital role in public transport system

• Location of an Interchange in the Transport and Land-use System

• Design of the Interchange

• Economic Organization, Management and Operation of Transport Interchange

• Information and Mobility Management



• Transport System Elements:

• Policy and Institutional issues.

• Public transport network.

• Management and Operational issues.

• Related Elements:

• Economic and Institutional environment.

• Physical environment.

• Local habits and customs.


TRANSPORT SYSTEM ELEMENTS AND ISSUES

levels issues

socio-economic environment

mobility policy public transport networkinterchange surrounding

areainterchange infrastructure

Transport and Land use policies Promotion of public transport

policies Administrative integration of different transport authorities

Location Urban regeneration

policies New urban developments: urban

planning models

Co-operation between different stakeholders

Fixing pub.transport network aims & benchmarks

Environmental and mobility impact

assessment required

Security Information means

Cleanliness and Maintenance

-Efficient payment means

Land use planning Transport network planning

Urban projects Feeder planning

Visibility (Information)

PT System information Perception of surroundings

Environmental and mobility impact

assessment required

Coherence between mobility/land use policy, economic

policy, social aims and environmental

policy

Coherence between transport

and land use policies

Urban development strategy

management & operational issues

Co-ordinate policy Research on lateral

effects

Program and project partnerships

Co-ordinate planning

Dispatching by telematics, ICT Pricing, ticketing

Network and travel information (Trip-planners)

Co-ordinated services

Security: Cleanliness Information

Feeder operation

policy & institutional issues

planning, design & implementation

Creating public support for new

policies Legislation

Mobility management

Telematics, ICT Mobility system

information

Accessibility Lighting Parking

Minimize transfer time Location of services


DISFUNCTIONS IN TRANSPORT SYSTEM

• High energy consumption.

• Traffic congestion.

• High level of pollution.

• More time spent on travel.

• Dissatisfied users.


ENCOURAGING USERS TO TRAVEL ON COLLECTIVE TRANSPORT

• because it needs less:

• energy/passenger and Km

• space

• and so decrease:

• pollution emissions

• congestion

• time spent on travel

• dissatisfaction

• the way to achieve it:

• actions on all of the transport system elements

• actions on the related elements


TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE:VITAL ROLE IN TRANSPORT SYSTEM

• Transport system gate


TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE:VITAL ROLE IN TRANSPORT SYSTEM

• Point to change for passengersfrom one mode or service to another

• Meeting point for different transport modes and operators


TRANSPORT INTERCHANGE: AN ELEMENT IN THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM

PLANNING, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL ISSIUES

POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES


LOCATION OF AN INTERMODAL INTERCHANGE IN THE TRANSPORT AND TERRITORIAL SYSTEM

Identify long-term consequences:

• Land Use policies and development patterns

• Rising properties values

• Promoting intermodal travel

Effects:

• Territorial

• Urban


TERRITORIAL EFFECTS

• Make public transport competitive vs private transport:

• Urban sprawl vs compact city

• Competition with better roads


URBAN EFFECTS

• Generation of new demand and activities in and around it.

• revitalisation an existing urban area

• to support a new development

• Objectives:

• accessibility

• configuration and scale

• interaction with the community served

• visibility

• security


DEVELOPING INTEGRATED TRANSPORT NETWORKS

• Optimise the use of different transport means to compete in comfort, speed and flexibility with private car, considering the travel as a whole, trying to reduce any perception of breaking its trip for the passenger.


DEVELOPING INTEGRATED TRANSPORT NETWORKS

• Objectives:

• Try to get the longer trips with the most efficient, best capacity, and fastest mean

• Optimise accessibility of travel generating centres.

• Information:

• Demand assessment

• Social behaviour of users and non-users


DESIGNING THE INTERCHANGE: ASPECTS TO CONSIDER

• Architecture: transparency,

visibility and brightness against

large and dark corridors, poorly-

lit, small and enclosed waiting

areas.

• Technical requirements



• Software and Technologies:

providing real time information

systems for passengers and

vehicle control systems.



• Users groups and needs:

elderly, disabled,

commuters, planners,

service operators.



• Information systems



• Accessibility:

avoiding barriers.


DESIGNING THE INTERCHANGE: URBAN DESIGN

• Entrance to the

Transport System

• Image of the city


DESIGNING THE INTERCHANGE: URBAN DESIGN

• Feeding

• Functionality

• Without clear limits


DESIGNING THE INTERCHANGE: INTERCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE

• Clear axes of visibility

between entrances,

exits, platforms, etc.



• Use natural light, by incorporating

transparent and glass surfaces as

much as possible.



• Platforms and access

passages should be

wide enough for

passengers to feel

safe.



• Short walking

distances

• Escalators and lifts

should be provided



• Disabled and elderly

passengers should

enjoy an easy and

convenient access.



• Separated pedestrian

flows

• Avoiding dangerous

situations, and traffic

conflicts



• Ticketing machines

should be located at

entrances and

concourses



• Timetables covering all

transport modes should be

well located and designed

to be easy to consult

• Passengers service areas

and elements should be

built in and clearly

identified



• Information points with

trained staff are very

useful for certain

passengers



• Parking facilities with

areas well protected


DESIGNING THE INTERCHANGE:INTERCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE

• Park & Ride, Kiss & Ride

areas and facilities for

disabled people


ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION

• Economic Organization, Management and Operation are aspects linked with:

• the design

• the political, economic and physical environment

• Economic Organization, Management and Operation must be orientated to:

• Achieve the best working of the interchange

• Co-ordinating the operators, services and modes

• Managing revenues

• Encouraging passengers to use the public transport system


ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION

• Definition of responsibilities and hierarchy:

• Organization of staff at the interchange

• Co-ordination of operators and services

• Definition of financial structure:

• The way it is financed (public/private funding)

• Income and revenue management

• Options for increasing revenue


MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION: OBJECTIVES

• Reduce waiting times

• Guarantee intermodality

• Improve transport system


MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION: ELEMENTS

• Establishment of a clear network flow of information amongst

different modes and services.

• Definition of a timetable schedules and frequencies in order

to ensure minimum transfer and waiting times.



• Give up-to-date, helpful and, above all, reliable information.

• Early and detailed advice on alternative services.

• Visible availability of staff, to give help and advice.

• Efficient handling of reimburse-ment.

• Information.

• Control the observance of established timetable.



• Pricing and fares policy:

• purchase tickets prior to travel, integrated information, reservation facilities and new technologies (telephone, internet, etc).

• multi-modal tickets: electronic tickets.



• Security and surveillance

• Inside the interchange

• In the parking lot (car, cycles)

• In the surrounding areas


MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION:ELEMENTS

• Maintenance and cleanliness



• Existence of previous planning that cares for possible incidences and social and economic development.

• Complementary services for operators:

• Parking for their vehicles

• Auxiliary system of exploitation

• Areas where drivers can eat, sleep or wait comfortably



• Complementary services for users:

• Information

• Shopping, catering and other services

• Toilets, telephone, luggage handling, etc.


INFORMATION AND MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

• Information

• Telematics in public transport

• Travel and traffic information service

• Mobility management


INTERMODAL EUROPEAN TRIP


CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS• A large number of problems about transport can be avoided

encouraging the passengers to travel by collective transport modes and the way to get it is:

• making the public transport system more efficient.

• promoting and marketing the public transport system benefits.

• Intermodality is the element that allows to increase the number of combinations and possible journeys.

• The interchange is the place where the passengers change the transport mode.

• The transport interchange success is based on a good location and design as much as on adequate management, efficient information supply and persuading people to change their habits.These closely linked aspects must be considered from the beginning.

INTEGRATED TRANSPORT CHAINS Transparencies 2003 EU-funded Urban Transport Research Project Results TRANSPORT TEACHING MATERIAL.

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