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

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 422 375 FONTANESI 365 ISONZO 118 204 VALDO FUSI 500 MAROCCHETTI 63 D'AZEGLIO/GALILEI 229 1800 EMANUELE FILIBERTO 210 PORTA PALAZZO 850 STATI UNITI 450 ROMA 348 BODONI 457 22 VMS MADAMA CRISTINA 259 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] Waiting

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: ¾34% traffic flow reduction, with trend of about 50% within 6 months ¾10% increase of public transport commercial speed

14000 Traffic flow

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4000 vehicles numbe

2000 no pre-esericizio dal 29/3 notizia dal 10/5 dal 17/5 al 8/6: dal 8/6 notifica telecamere del preesercizio esercizio anche motocicli multe 0 n lu b sa gio 04 4 0 00 004 004 03/2 /2 2 2004 04 4 03 0 00 09/03/214/ /03/ 004 19/ 4 /2 004 004 4 2 29/03/ 04/2 2 2 0 03/04/2004 04 0 004 08/04/213/ /04/ day 004 18/ 3 /2 004 004 4 2 28/04/ 05/2 2 2 0 03/05/2004 05 0 004 08/05/213/ 8/ /05/ 004 1 3 6/2 /2 /2 004 2 28/05/ 0 06 2 02/06/200407/ 06 12/ 17/ 22/06/ 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