© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 1 presentation by Marino Mazzon Director, ITS Division, Thetis S.p.A., Venice, Italy on behalf of the JV Thetis, Fata DTS, Ecotema, Atac Sino-Italian Cooperation Programme Italian Ministry of Environment, Beijing Municipality, SEPA

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 2 The reference scenario The “Green Olympics” strategy of the Chinese Government The Sino-Italian Coooperation Programme The Beijing traffic congestion in the city centre The traffic effects on air quality The need of an innovative sustainable mobility intervention ITS-TAP = Intelligent Transport System - Traffic Air Pollution Objective: Mitigate the traffic originated emissions in the city centre through a combined action of on-occasion traffic limitation and public transport boosting and advanced management

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac The SICP, Sino-Italian Cooperation Programme An implementation measure of the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism Italian side: –IMET (Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory) in cooperation with Italian Embassy Italian Foreign Commerce Institute Chinese side: –SEPA (State Environmental Protection Administration) –MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology) –Beijing Municipal Government –Shanghai Municipal Government –Academy of Social Sciences Cooperation areas: Energy saving Renewable energy sources Reduction of coal consumption Sustainable agriculture Traffic emissions mitigation Some 20 ongoing projects about 70 M euro grants over 40 Italian and Chinese partnering organizations involved

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 4 Basic considerations for sustainable mobility in urban areas Quality of environment in urban areas is also heavily determined by traffic and in general by mobility strategies Improving environment means also improving mobility Possible combined actions (among others): –access limitation to central areas in case of heavy pollution –Encourage use of public transport through bus localization services, bus lanes control, traffic light priority, parking services, information service –Integrated management of urban delivery services and waste collection –Encourage car pooling and car sharing

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 5 The mix towards sustainable mobility Lowor Zero Emissionvehicles Geographicalinfo system Bus lane control Environment monitoring Planning Atc GPS P CarPark System Trafficlight management Intelligent busstops Variablemessage system (private transport) Infrastructure management dsf dfsf fevvfvd evvdvd fevvfvd evvdvd fvd evvdvd SF FFD ERFREF BFGBGFB Mobility card CarSharing Zone Access Control entrata uscita 13 Video Surveillance Information via GSM The municipalityactions Integrated mobility and environmental management

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 6 The situation in Beijing 2.3 million vehicles (and increasing) 1 million vehicles are old-type (under Euro I standard) Highly populated area - energy consumption - pollution from heating - pollution from traffic 45 % of days in 2002 did not meet the national standard Various actions taken, but not enough The issue is: improve air quality

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 7 the ITS-TAP concept Traffic counters and tag readers Air quality stations The 2nd inner ring road Forbidden city Focus area: within the second ring road concept: when air pollution is predicted to exceed a certain threshold, then activate two actions: –prevent access to the ring road area to “yellow tag” cars (1) –enhance public transport service implementation: integrated management of –air quality monitoring and forecast –traffic limitation –bus transport (2) (1)Yellow tag cars are identified and classified as the most polluting (2)Buses are those connecting the Olympic village and the city centre

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 8 System configuration and users air quality monitoring Traffic + yellow tag monitoring bus AVM, dispatching traffic centre data centre BTMB EPB BPT ITS-TAP system A regulated system: traffic limitation is dynamic and selective; strategies are variable; public transport is flexible Cooperation among various administrations in Beijing EMC

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 9 6 fixed stations - analysers for SO 2, NOx, PM 10, CO, O 3, benzene, reactive HC; - samplers for Metals and BaP; - meteorological Instruments; - atmospheric stability monitors 30 saturation stations - passive samplers for NO 2, NO x, SO 2, NH 3, O 3, BTX; - samplers for particulate matter 3 mobile units - analyzers for CO, NOx, particulate matter 3 mobile emission analysers Data Quality Control Centre. AQMS A ir Q uality M onitoring S ystem

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 10 TMS T raffic M onitoring S ystem 22 monitoring stations, each composed of: 3 radars (one per lane) with triple technology (doppler, ultrasonic and passive infrared) for incoming traffic monitoring and classification 1 miniature radar for outgoing traffic flow monitoring OCR cameras for license plate recognition Local control unit 8 noise sensors

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 11 PTMS P ublic T ransport M anagement S ystem Operations Centre - operator consoles - application and data base servers - service planning software - AVM and service analysis software 200 bus onboard systems - onboard computer - driver terminal - WiFi, GPRS communication - passenger info - passenger counters 20 bus stops info displays - with WLAN and GPRS 3 depot systems - with WLAN and connection to Operations Centre

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 12 The PTMS system configuration Control centre Control centre GPRS depots stops Onboard PC systems Onboard PC systems LINE J4 5 MN LINE J6 ARR

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 13 The bus onboard systems Air analysersTicketing machines Information panels Safety TV cameras Passenger counters Engine data interfaces Onboard computer and Driver terminal

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 14 The Data Centre (concept) Functions in ITS- TAP: Traffic/environment predictor model on GIS Data base management Bus fleet management Interface with City Traffic Management Authority

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 15 ITS-TAP Project plan design delivery installation test startup training

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 16 Some specific benefits of ITS-TAP approach use AQMS into a practical action scheme (measurements –-> actions) Improve public transport efficiency through advanced service planning and real time monitoring (some 5% emissions reduction expected from public transport) dynamic zone access limitations and real time control (reasonable mitigation and enforcement)

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 17 The Italian Consortium Thetis - System Integration - Data Centre with Traffic Environmental Model - Public Transport Management System Fata DTS - Traffic Monitoring Stations Ecotema - Air Quality Monitoring Stations Atac (Rome Public Transport Agency) - bus service planning procedures and training

© JV Thetis – Fata DTS – Ecotema - Atac 18 The ITS-TAP Beijing partners Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau Beijing Public Transport Holdings