Traffic Engineering and Management in Turin, Italy
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Conference On Implementing Sustainable Urban Travel Policies in Russia And Other CIS Countries 30 September – 1 October 2004 Moscow (Russian Federation) TRAFFIC ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT IN TURIN Presentation by Giancarlo GUIATI Gruppo Torinese Trasporti Italy Traffic engineering and management in Turin, Italy Moscow, 1°october 2004 Giancarlo Guiati, President of Gruppo Torinese Trasporti, Torino Gruppo Torinese Trasporti ¾Public transport in Turin and its metropolitan area, and in other 220 municipalities in Piemonte ¾Rail transport in Turin metropolitan area ¾Realization of the 1° subway line in Turin ¾Management of great part. of Turin parking areas ¾Partecipation in several public transport companies ¾190 millions of passengers/year ¾turnover 342 millions Euro (2003) ¾5.262 employees ¾in 2003-2005 investments for 1.187 millions Euro A global strategy for urban mobility management Infrastructure Demand management Mobility Intelligent Vehicles Transport System (ITS) technologies ITS in Turin metropolitan area 5T is an integrated system for traffic and transport management and control. Its main goals are: ¾improve traffic flow in the urban area and reduce congestion ¾improve the performance of public transport services to promote sustainable urban mobility ¾provide real-time information services to improve travel conditions in the urban area ¾reduce the atmospheric pollution caused by traffic GTT and Turin City Council founded a company named Telematic Technologies Transport Traffic Turin devoted to develop and manage all ITS applications. Town supervisor ¾takes info from all systems ¾estimates what could be the “user equilibrium” point in the specific situation ¾sends to all subsystem the strategies to be actuated for traffic control and pollutant reduction (cooperative control) Urban traffic control Today 140 intersections In 2006 300 intersections Urban traffic control Traffic light intersection in real time Public transport management UHF radio Network Fleet - 1300 vehicles P.T. control room 5T control room Parking control & VMS (Variable Message Sign) parking Parkings places nr. 5T control room PALAGIUSTIZIA 989 VENTIMIGLIA 336 RE UMBERTO 130 ARBARELLO (Cittadella) 245 GALILEO FERRARIS 422 NIZZA 375 FONTANESI 365 ISONZO 118 RACCONIGI 204 VALDO FUSI 500 MAROCCHETTI 63 D'AZEGLIO/GALILEI 229 LINGOTTO 1800 EMANUELE FILIBERTO 210 PORTA PALAZZO 850 STATI UNITI 450 ROMA 348 BODONI 457 MADAMA CRISTINA 259 22 VMS BOLZANO 858 Parkings managed by GTT GTT manages about 4000 parking places in equipped areas In buildings equipped parking parking areas places nr. PALAGIUSTIZIA 989 VENTIMIGLIA 336 ISONZO 118 NIZZA 375 RACCONIGI 204 FONTANESI 365 MAROCCHETTI 63 D'AZEGLIO/GALILEI 229 GTT manages Equipped areas parking parking also 56.000 on lots places nr. street parking RE UMBERTO 130 ARBARELLO (Cittadella) 245 lots VALDO FUSI 500 GALILEO FERRARIS 422 Routing VMS 26 VMS 9 mobile VMS Real time information +39.339.9949990 www.5t.torino.it ¾If you send an SMS with bus stop number ¾You receive in a few seconds arrival times of services for that bus stop ¾Path planning ¾If you send an SMS with “P” letter ¾Arrival times at bus stop ¾You receive in a few seconds ¾Parking places availability information about free room in parking ¾Traffic and transport bulletin places Traffic management system results 5T system reduces the waiting time at traffic lights of private vehicles in the area controlled by the system 40 Car waiting time at traffic lights 35 30 5 sec. Reduction for each intersection 2001 25 2003 20 Waiting Time [s] 15 10 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Flow [veh/h] …in a glance! The traffic management system increases the commercial speed of public transport controlled lines and reduces the car-travel time in the controlled area Videosurveillance on board Special video camera systems are currently operating on 150 GTT buses (310 at the end of 2004): in the event of a crime taking place on board these buses, the images recorded by the cameras are made available to the authorities for criminal investigations Videosurveillance at bus stops 100 emergency call devices are in operation at GTT’s bus stops. The devices permit citizens to alert GTT’s operations centre immediately in the event of a threat to public safety. GTT’s staff may inform the emergency services, while video cameras photograph the scene Taxi security system Turin’s taxis fleet of about 1500 vehicles has been equipped with an on-board safety device permitting the driver to send an alarm to the radio taxi operations centre in the event of a threat to safety on board Electronic access control The centre of the city, for which access is limited only to authorized vehicles, is equipped with an access control system based on electronic access points controlled by video cameras Electronic access control 2 cameras and infrared lamp Laser sensor + telepass (transponder) Loop Electronic access control Electronic access control: results In controlled area since 3 months from the project start: ¾ 34% ¾ within 6 months 10% traffic flow reduction, with trend of about 50% increase of public transport commercial speed 14000 12000 r 10000 8000 6000 vehicles numbe 4000 Traffic flow 2000 0 telecamere no lun sab gio pre-esericizio 09/03/2004 14/03/2004 19/03/2004 24/03/2004 dal 29/3 notizia 29/03/2004 del preesercizio 03/04/2004 08/04/2004 13/04/2004 18/04/2004 dal 10/5 23/04/2004 esercizio 28/04/2004 03/05/2004 day 08/05/2004 0 004 dal 17/5 al 8/6: 13/ 5/2 anche motocicli 18/05/2004 23/05/2004 28/05/2004 02/06/2004 dal 8/6 notifica 07/06/2004 multe 12/06/2004 17/06/2004 22/06/2004 27/06/2004 Reserved lanes control A new project based on video camera installed on bus windscreen has been started in order to improve public transport commercial speed. A video camera system is being installed on 160 buses and will be completed within 2004. It takes pictures of the not authorized vehicles plates in reserved lines. The numberplates are sent to the control centre to be fined. Viability and no parking surveillance GTT has set up a staff of 55 agents to improve public viability through: ¾Fining vehicles left in no parking areas, and nearby bus stops ¾Fining non-authorized vehicles on public transport reserved lanes GTT’s agents support and cooperate with Municipality traffic policemen Car Sharing Car sharing service is available in Turin since 2003 and it is managed by GTT Group. It aims to promote sustainable urban mobility reducing use of personal cars. Winter Olimpics Games “Torino 2006”: Traffic Operation Centre Traffic Operation Centre (TOC) is the control centre, integrated in 5T system, where: ¾Olimpic mobility will be planned and managed ¾all information about traffic and transport regarding the “Olimpic area” will be collected and broadcasted Thanks for your attention and Welcome in Torino in 2006 for the Winter Olimpic Games Gruppo Torinese Trasporti: www.gtt.torino.it .