1. Smart City Projects – EU Projects OPTICITIES
Prof.ssa Cristina Pronello
Dott.ssa Valentina Rappazzo
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
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2. Reference to the call Smart City Projects – EU Projects OPTICITIES
WORK PROGRAMME 2013
COOPERATION
THEME TRANSPORT (INCLUDING AERONAUTICS)
(European Commission C(2012)4536 of 09 July 2012)
 CHALLENGE 2. SAFE AND SEAMLESS MOBILITY
Activity Ensuring sustainable urban mobility
SST Managing integrated multimodal urban transport network
Level 2 - CP - Call: FP7-SST-2013-RTD-1
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3. Objectives of the project (36 months)
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Objectives of the project (36 months)
Improve mobility of people and freight in an urban
context with very high level information and traffic
management services, using ITS
Provide incentive and tools for modal shift by
adapting current mobility habits through information
Help European cities tackle complex mobility challenges
 Development of public/private partnerships and the experimentation of innovative ITS services.
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4. Participant organisation name
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Participant organisation name
Country 1
GRAND LYON
FRANCE 2
SPIE 3
Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid
SPAIN 4
Madrid City Council 5
ICCA 6
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 7
CSI Piemonte
ITALY 8
Città di Torino 9 5T 10
Politecnico di Torino 11
City of Gothenburg
SWEDEN 12
Chalmers 13
City of Wroclaw
POLAND 14
Neurosoft 15
Birmingham City Council UK 16
Algoé 17
EUROCITIES
BELGIUM 18
UITP 19
VOLVO 20
CityWay 21
Vedecom 22
Hacon
GERMANY 23
Berends Consult
Consortium 23 partners from 8 EU member states.
 6 city authorities,
 major ITS actors (research institutes, information service providers, car industry)
EUROCITIES
International public transport operators (UITP)
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5. The different steps Smart City Projects – EU Projects OPTICITIES
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6. Smart City Projects – EU Projects OPTICITIES
Need for a standardised MULTIMODAL urban dataset and its interface with services provision
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7. Project activities OPEN AND INTEGRATED DATA
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Project activities
OPEN AND INTEGRATED DATA
Development of a contractual architecture between private and public actors for data quality, data access, data exchange and service provision.
Consolidation of multiple sources of urban mobility data from all modes (network topology; theoretical, real and predictive schedules). Definition of a European standard for this Multimodal Urban Dataset and its interfaces between public authorities, network managers and service providers.
Development of Multimodal Traffic Control System connecting road traffic and various PT data (combination of Dataset from multiple public transport operators in large cities).
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8. Project activities MULTIMODAL SERVICE
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Project activities
MULTIMODAL SERVICE
Availability of real-time information for all modes, anytime, anywhere: multimodal urban navigator guiding users before and during their trips to facilitate co-modality and modal shift.
Information on time, cost and CO2 emissions related to all available mobility solutions
Service continuity between in-vehicle navigation system and the multimodal urban navigator → seamless travel management solution (1st world trial)
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9. Project activities OPTIMISATION
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Project activities
OPTIMISATION
Optimisation of urban networks exploitation through the development of traffic prediction tools and their integration into traffic management systems. This will allow anticipated predictive travel times across modes and proactive management of traffic lights, based on 1 hour traffic forecast. Congestion situations will be minimised and sometimes even avoided.
Optimisation of urban freight management (minimise unnecessary travels and connections, optimise delivery routes)
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10. Project activities A USERS-CENTRED APPROACH
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Project activities
A USERS-CENTRED APPROACH
Promoting a participative approach with users (web 2.0, ex. car-
pooling), directly involved in the design and testing phases of the services, especially the urban navigator.
10. Robust evidence-based assessment of the solutions developed within the project : in-itinere evaluation involving more than 200 users in the participating cities, enabling reliable user feedback.
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