1. Welcome to Newcastle – Newcastle Connected Corridor
Lauren Shaw - Newcastle City Council
Alistair Baldwin- Newcastle City Council

2. The City of Newcastle: Current Facts and Figures
£7.6bn GVA and HQ of the £6bn Sage Group
300,000 people living here
Including 50,000 students
1.09 billion vehicle miles per year along with
40 million bus journeys
20 million Metro journeys
8 million entries/exits at Newcastle Central Station
2nd busiest airport in the north of England – 5 million people

3. Newcastle – our future vision
Aspiration to be one of the cleanest, greenest and most innovative cities in Northern Europe
By ,000 new homes (5,000 already with permission)
New Metro fleet by 2023 & HS2 trains serving Newcastle by 2033
Commitment to improving & transforming the everyday journeys people make by all modes of transport
Pursuing evidence-based policy with strong evaluation and partnerships with academia and industry
What have we done?

5. John Dobson Street
(very) Before
Before
After

6. Background – Why is Newcastle interested in (C)-ITS
Air Quality - Parts of Newcastle and surrounding areas modelled as breaching EU limit values for NO2
Congestion & Road Safety - Declining traffic speeds in the morning peak (6.5% decrease in the last three years) and increasing delays to bus services
Economic Growth and Innovation – Positioning Newcastle as a testbed City with an Urban Observatory
Accessibility, Sustainability and Equity – Newcastle one of 8 UK cities to be named a Cycling Ambition City by DfT and a long-term goal to increase active travel and travel by public transport
Asset Management and Value for Money – Knowledge that major upgrades are expensive, need to gain maximum use from current assets

7. Air Quality – NO2 exceedance in 2021
New housing sites and junction improvements

8. Newcastle’s Perspective
What can C-ITS do for our city?
Smoother traffic flow
Better network management
Air Quality improvements
Journey time reliability
Improved user experience
Safety benefits
Economic benefits

11. Compass 4D – Chillingham Road
EU funded project between 2013 – 2016
Equipped 21 junctions with Road Side Units and 11 North East Ambulance Service non-emergency patient transfer vehicles with OBUs
Energy Efficient Intersection Service (EEIS)
Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA)
Green priority
Idling support
Achieved ~3.2% fuel efficiency saving (real- world data) / 5-9% (modelled)

12. Compass 4D Lessons Learned
Availability and volume of data
User Acceptance and Buy-In
Procurement & Lead Times
Legal Agreements & Testing Schedules
Compatibility and Interoperability

13. C-ITS Smart Corridor– Gosforth Corridor
DfT funded project
Equips 18 junctions on Great North Road with Road Side Units and 35 ARRIVA express buses
Use cases:
Energy Efficient Intersection Service (EEIS)
Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA)
Green priority
Idling support
Plus, additional air quality monitoring and modelling (provided by Newcastle Urban Observatory)
Upgraded RSUs, OBUs, and HMIs
Greater focus on subjective evaluation of drivers’ usability/ acceptance
Road Hazard Warning & Road Works warning
Vulnerable Road Users
TMC
Cloud Hosted
Open Data
Platform

14. CMobILE Project
Accelerating C-ITS Mobility Innovation and depLoyment in Europe
EU H2020
37 partners
42 months ( )
12.5m Euros
Pilot sites: Barcelona; Bilbao; Bordeaux; Copenhagen; Newcastle; North Brabant; Thessaloniki; Vigo
Emphasis on stakeholder partnerships and
Importance of demonstrating sustainable business models and evaluation – C-ITS will have to stand on its own feet

15. Experience of the Connected Corridor (1)
Some lessons from Compass4D learned:
Involvement of bus drivers in HMI design
Data collection plan and detailed baselining undertaken for air quality, fuel consumption
Procurement still challenging – Not always the fault of the market!
Decided to procure RSUs alone
And then combined procurement of HMI and OBUs (subcontract)
Some unexpected elements cause greater issues than expected – Vulnerable Road Users

16. Experience of the Connected Corridor (2)
Continuing challenges with interoperability of OBUs and RSUs, emphasises the requirement for agreed interpretation of standards and interfaces
Technical sort-of specifics:
Ensuring the accuracy of MAPs
Ensure there is a correct OBU vehicle configuration!
Challenges of remote access
Requires continued flexibility of partners and willingness to go above and beyond contracted terms
Shows the need for future deployments to have a clear System Integrator role