The Resources in the Room Innovative ideas and how to take advantage of them 12 November 2013, Stuttgart, Germany Bonnie Fenton, Rupprecht Consult
Feb 25, 2016
The Resources in the Room
Innovative ideas and how to take advantage of them12 November 2013, Stuttgart, Germany
Bonnie Fenton, Rupprecht Consult
Cluster 1 – pricing measures
• Antwerp, Belgium• Brighton & Hove, UK• Catalonia, Spain• Huesca, Spain• Koprivnica, Croatia• Milan, Italy• Monza, Italy• Nantes, France• Örebro, Sweden• Prague, Czech Republic• Tallinn, Estonia• Warsaw, Poland
Cluster 2 – non-motorised transport
• Aalborg, Denmark• Craiova, Romania• Donostia San Sebastian, Spain• Gijón, Spain• Graz, Austria• Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands• Krakow, Poland • Piraeus, Greece• Riga, Latvia• San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Spain• Shkodra, Albania• Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Cluster 3 – traffic and network management
• Brent, UK• Calw, Germany• Hampshire, UK• Heraklion, Greece• Lamia, Greece• Madrid, Spain• Manchester, UK• Ploiesti, Romania• Vienna, Austria
Cluster 4 – electric mobility
• Barcelona, Spain• Bratislava, Slovakia• Bremen, Germany• Dortmund, Germany• Florence, Italy• Gran Canaria, Spain• Murcia, Spain• Orbetello, Italy• Oslo, Norway• Prat de Llobregat, Spain• Rotterdam, the Netherlands• Tampere, Finland
Cluster 5 – public transport organisation
• Bologna, Italy• Budapest, Hungary• Burgas, Bulgaria• Dubrovnik, Croatia• Kocaeli, Turkey• Navarre, Spain• Nicosia, Cyprus• Varna, Bulgaria• Vilnius, Lithuania• Warsaw, Poland
Road charging and parking pricing (cluster 1)
Road charging• Not planning it• Establishing an
environmental zone• Plan in progress• A study on tolling has been
carried out• Current legal framework
doesn’t allow it
Parking pricing • Citizen and
stakeholder involvement
• Motivation:• to reduce car traffic in the
city centre • to direct longer-term
parking away from on-street parking
Cyclists and pedestrians (cluster 2)
Cycling • Bicycle paths and routes, contraflow
lanes, intersection improvements, overpasses and tunnels, traffic calming, 30 km/h zones
• Bicycle parking, a bike station• New by-laws• Perception studies, information
campaigns, pedelec promotion• Road safety courses• Public bike systems
Walking • Creating/enlarging pedestrian-
only historic centres, pedestrian-friendly streets and public spaces
• Improving pedestrian access and sidewalks, evaluating pedestrian crossings, routes for the visually impaired
• Traffic calming, 30 km/h zones
Data and apps (cluster 3)
• street network, speed limits, restricted access zones• proposed traffic schemes, planned road maintenance• bus stops, lines, routes and schedules• incidents and real-time arrival of buses • train network and schedule• parking information• real-time traffic conditions and traffic flows • air quality levels
Charging infrastructure (cluster 4)
• Charging stations: yes • Business case: not yet• Who finances?
• Local government• Private sector• Public-private partnership • Private sector with public incentives• Project funding
Public transport organisation (cluster 5)
• Lack of interconnectivity and of connections beyond the city
• Uncoordinated timetables, non-integrated ticketing, lack of passenger information
• Inefficiently used finances, high operating costs, high fares, high maintenance costs
• Too many people organising transport, too many operators, too many employees
• Old vehicles, low operating speed, low quality of service, lack of separated lanes
• Data not centralised
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