Sustainable urban transport for the Europe of tomorrow TELLUS Newsletter 2003 The first year. Preface

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1 Sustainable urban transport for the Europe of tomorrow TELLUS Newsletter 2003 The first year Yearly Newsletter January 2003 Preface By participating in the EU-project TELLUS, the representatives of five European Cities have taken on the obligation to cooperate in introducing a sustainable policy for traffic and urban development. Concerning traffic, the participating cities are aiming for clean air, noise reduction, a reduction in climate changing gases, and in road usage. Simultaneously, they are aiming to guarantee the mobility of humans and goods. We would like to maintain European cities as lively and vital living spaces by new and innovative measures. We would like to counteract disurbanisation - the migration of the inner-city population and urban sprawl into the hinterland. Disurbanisation is at an advanced stage in other continents, e.g. in North America. The cities participating in the TELLUS project are developing concepts and strategies for a novel future relationship between the municipality and its traffic. Also in Berlin, we are currently redeveloping our traffic policy. New measures are necessary in order to change the modal split in the cities towards an environmentally friendly means of transportation. At this point, it helps not to be alone during the communication with the population as well as trade and industry, but to be able to refer to other cities that are working on similar problems and perhaps have already been successful in solving some of them. We hope and expect that changes will be accelerated by an intense exchange of views about strategies to solve problems that are basically similar. We, the representatives of the participating cities, think the TELLUS idea is important and promising, because TELLUS aims to influence the organism city systematically. Measurable changes will not be achieved by isolated single measures (e.g. fuel cell propulsion), even the most ambitious ones, but rather by a multitude of interacting elements integrated in a common policy. Even then fast changes are improbable. Sustainable traffic policies require persistence and staying power. Local transport policy, however, has to deal with legal and economic conditions set on a national and international level. We often have to acknowledge that local approaches to tackle transport related problems conflict with the national (and European) legal framework. For example, local measures such as restrictions or incentives to increase environmentally friendly means of freight transport fail, because the applicable law does not allow for different regulations related to the level of truck emissions. This legal shortcomings are one reason for the constant growth of motorised freight transport and the decline of fright transport by rail. Thus, there still is no level playingfield for environmentally friendly means of transport. We are therefore pleased that the EU has decided to start changing these crucial preconditions. We welcome the fact that the European Union is encouraging new ways in traffic policy with these and other initiatives including the new White Paper and, in particular, that it is accelerating necessary changes of the general conditions in policy, e.g. transition towards a fair apportioning of costs to all means of transportation. It is helpful and important that the new ways of thinking about transport policy within TELLUS and CIVITAS happen in direct communication between the European and the local level, because this sustains the principle of subsidiarity. Maria Krautzberger Permanent Secretary Berlin ministry of urban development > TELLUS. CIVITAS. 1

2 TELLUS.rotterdam Sustainable urban transport for the Europe of tomorrow What has been done in the cities during the first year TELLUS.rotterdam In the city of Rotterdam an integrated package of 26 demonstration measures is introduced. During the first year of TELLUS the main activities for these measures are the design of systems, the definition of policies and the procurement of vehicles and equipment. The elections on national and local level led to political changes and the redefinition of two measures. In this newsletter Rotterdam presents the measures that have already started their demonstration and describe the measures that have been re-defined. Demand depending strategies for paid parking This new project focuses on optimising the use of public space and improving the local environment by expansion of paid parking and the use of demand dependent parking strategies. By using different parking tariffs for different streets, depending on the demands for parking space, the use of parking places can be regulated more efficiently. This leads to an optimised use of public space, which minimises displacement effects (shifts towards the cheap side of the border of a tariff region). Besides this the use of car parks can be stimulated. Public - private partnership regarding the construction and maintenance of new road infra- structure The objective of this new project is a general study on public/private business models for construction and maintenance of new road infrastructure. Often, expanding or constructing roads raises financial problems for governments with delays as a result. By introducing public/private business models such projects might be realised sooner. The study will focus on a special case, the planned Amsterdam - Antwerp highway connection (A4). Part of this road is in the Rotterdam area. The new connection will reduce the use of the old existing connection (A13-A20-A16) which runs closely to living areas and hence contributes to better living conditions for the inhabitants of Rotterdam. Expansion of Van-Pooling for Commuters The idea behind Van-pooling is that a maximum of 9 employees share a (luxury) van for their commute, with 1 or more of the employees acting as driver of the van. Thus Van-Pooling offers an alternative for the car on routes where a public transport alternative is lacking. At the start of the project 20 Vans where in operation in the Rotterdam region. During the project new user groups will be formed and 24 new vans will be put into operation. Multicore tube logistics This project will create an alternative for truck traffic on the road, leading to less air pollution and less congestion. Tube logistics is a new organisational concept that aims to promote tube transport of smaller amounts of chemicals. Although several companies have showed their interest, a demonstration project is necessary to stimulate the use of the concept by these companies. The demonstration project is expected to deliver results on the pricing strategy, management and communication and make a wider implementation of the concept possible. Green Commuter Plans and Mobility Management This project will integrate supply and demand from employees in the region for new and suitable transport concepts. At present, mobility management is done through providing information to local employers about Traffic Demand Management and setting uptemporary 2. CIVITAS. TELLUS <

3 committees with local public authorities, public transport agencies and major employers for selected areas The project introduces a new mobility management concept, in which a direct approach of employees is central instead of the normal procedure of approaching the employers. An information centre for employees will be created and operated. New approaches to integrated planning This project will demonstrate the benefits of organisational innovative integrated approaches to urban planning at traffic and transport nodes. At three strategic locations in Rotterdam attention will be paid to smart land use and public/private co-operation. For one location the focus is on combining economic functions close to transport infrastructure while taking into account restrictions on accessibility, external safety and traffic related air and noise pollution. At another location the focus will be on accessibility, smart land use and combined use of parking facilities. The focus of the work for the third area will be on the development of the P&R facility and the targeted road to improve the direct accessibility from the highway to the P&R area. Clean and Silent Public Transport Fleet This project will establish a clean public transport fleet to reduce emissions and to increase the attractiveness of public transport in a whole. In this project 138 existing buses will be converted with a complete DNOx system and 74 new buses will be improved with an additional DNOx system. Also the already developed lightweight hybrid bus will be tested for 3 years. The evaluation and dissemination of these tests will have to result in further improvement for new developments in this still unexplored field. Electric Vehicles for Commercial Distribution This project demonstrates the viability of using clean, quiet and energy efficient vehicles for urban distribution and stimulate further spin-off in commercial fleets. At this moment the 7 vehicles in the Rotterdam ELCIDIS project have been introduced. ELCIDIS is a demonstration project in the EC s THERMIE program and is executed in 6 European cities. The local site project in Rotterdam is demonstrating the viability of 7 electric vehicles with the innovative ZEBRA battery technology in 3 existing commercial fleets for urban distribution. Public Transport over water Milestone 1: watertaxi operational with 30 landing stages (month 11) Milestone 2: adaptions to Fast Ferry landing stage to include Wate taxi stop (month 9) Milestone 3: design study and business case into a new Waterbus system on the river Maas (month 30) Milestone 4: evaluation results on use and effects (month 24) The project Public Transport over water wants to optimise the use of the river by enhancing the passenger transport systems over water. The river Maas crosses the centre of Rotterdam. Within this project this infrastructure is addressed by two initiatives: the watertaxi and the water bus. The speed of the watertaxi, the direct connection over water and the lack of traffic congestion result in an innovative and time saving means of individual public transport. Within the first project months, work concentrated on management issues, technical engineering, legal affairs, and the procurement and installation of landing stages. As a result 29 landing stages are already operational. These are served by 5 watertaxi s. The tasks now focus on demonstration and evaluation. In December 2002 milestone 1 has been reached, meaning that 1 additional landing stage has to be in operation. In addition to the work on the watertaxi insights into the market volume for ferry connections (including a cost- benefit analysis) were gathered. The waterbus project is a design study and business case into a new waterbus system over the river Maas in the range of Maasvlakte Ridderkerk. Watertaxi. > TELLUS. CIVITAS. 3

4 Electric two-wheelers Milestone 1: 20 electric bicycles and 5 electric scooters introduced (month 1) Milestone 2: 10 electric bicycles introduced, bring the total to 30 (month 6) Milestone 3: all 100 electric bicycles introduced (month 18) Milestone 4: marketing and introduction plan for electric two-wheelers (month 24) This project introduced electric two-wheelers as a clean, energy-efficient and reliable alternative for the car. At this moment, the electric two-wheeler is still not commonly known as a suitable means of transport. The European project E-TOUR, electric two-wheelers on urban roads, has been set up to demonstrate, promote and evaluate these vehicles. In the Rotterdam site, the E- TOUR project has introduced a considerable number of electric bicycles and electric scooters in the beginning of the TELLUS project. Within TELLUS it will be possible to extend the dissemination activities regarding the introduction, demonstration an evaluation of e-bikes and e-scooters. As a result of the E-TOUR project 20 electric bicycles and 5 electric scooters were introduced in month 1 of the TELLUS project. Recently an agreement was concluded with an importer of electric bicycles, which makes it possible for the consumer to get a subsidy when buying an electric bicycle, on condition that they use the bicycle for commuting. This way 10 extra electric bicycles were introduced bringing the total to 30 bicycles in operation. It was estimated that 50 bicycles were to be introduced. However, the demand within the Rotterdam pilot district turned out to be less than expected. To solve this problem the introduction is no longer limited to the pilot area. In the coming months a campaign will be started to inform the consumer about the TELLUS project and the possibility to buy a subsidised electric bike. 70 extra electric bicycles will be produced and introduced. In TELLUS the activities regarding the introduction, demonstration and evaluation of the E-TOUR e-bikes and e-scooters are continued. The expected result is a marketing and introduction plan for electric two-wheelers. Dynamic public transport information Milestone 1: real time arrival / departure information available at first 30 High Quality Tram or metro stops (month 10) Milestone 2: result assessment (month 15) Milestone 3: real time arrival/departure information available at another 40 High Quality Tram, bus or metro stops (month 40) Milestone 4: installation of on-board communication systems on 60 trams (month 40) This project will improve the dynamic public transport information at High Quality tram stops and metro stops to increase the attractiveness and use of public transport. The High Quality tramline has fewer stops, is faster over a large distance and has dedicated tram lanes and priority at crossroads. The starting points of the project are reliability of travel time and convenience for passengers. At the start of the project the only real time information given in the High Quality trams was the next stop. Besides the attention for the High Quality tramline, dynamic public transport information will also be introduced at metro stops. Dynamic public transport information panel. Last months real time arrival/departure information panels have been installed at 36 tram stops on one particular tram line, connecting the Rotterdam city centre to the Lombardijen railway station. In the months to come the systems will be made operational. After implementation attention will shift towards demonstrating and testing the use. An additional 60 trams will also be fitted with in-vehicle communication systems, to facilitate communication between vehicle and panels. *** 4. CIVITAS. TELLUS <

5 TELLUS.berlin - Impressions from the CNG-event, Sony Center Berlin (Potsdamer Platz), TELLUS.berlin In Berlin, 16 Companies and research institutions are participating in the TELLUS project with ten projects. The TELLUS Project fits well into the strategy of the Senate of Berlin towards a sustainable policy of mobility. With its participation Berlin would like to test innovative solutions aiming for an improvement in living and residential quality in the city. The Senate of Berlin supports actively the partners in Berlin in carrying out their project. The project car modal already started his service in November. The project CNG-powered vehicles for inner-city delivery is still hampered by starting problems due to a small supply of these vehicles from the producers. In some projects, for example teleparking systems and car modal we have met legal problems. In these cases, we are currently working with the special permission of the Senate. Additionally, the Senate of Berlin is going to push the discussion onto the national level in order to change the legal framework. Despite such starting problems the projects in Berlin are already on the road to success. Tele-Parking System In Berlin, parking management is introduced in four city areas. The Urban Transport Development Plan of the Senate intends to extend the parking management widely to many city districts, mainly situated inside the inner railways ring. The parking management area City-West In the parking management area City-West (about 390 ha), mainly located in the Borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, the pilot of the Tele- Parking System is planned to be carried out. The parking management area is divided into 8 parking zones, actually two different tariffs are charged per any broken 30 minutes of parking duration time. Nearby parking places are covered by the parking management scheme, a few of them are for residents only. For all other parking lots the users have to pay by coins at one out of 780 installed parking meters. About inhabitants are living in the parking management area, and more than private cars are registered here. More than employees are working within the area, so the implementation of the parking management scheme in the middle of the 90-ies was aimed to reach a change in the modalshift by them. As a result the area becomes more and more attractive for shoppers and other short time parkers. But today, especially in the shopping streets and next to them it is difficult to find a free parking lot. By running the pilot operation of the Tele-Parking System it will be evaluated, whether a cashless and convenient telematics solution, charging the drivers by the minute, will lead to a better acceptance of the parking management for all relevant user groups, to a higher income from parking fees and to a decrease of punishments for wrong or unpaid parking. Furthermore an estimation will be made, if it would be useful to introduce a demand dependent and flexible pricing scheme for parking. Actually the concept for the implementation of the TPS pilot is been prepared. Conceptual Scheme for Heavy Duty Vehicle Road Pricing The task of the Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP), part of Berlin University of Technology, in TELLUS is the development of a conceptual scheme for heavy duty vehicle (HDV) road pricing in Berlin with emphasis on ecological issues. Such a scheme could be a possible extension of the German road pricing scheme for heavy trucks that will be currently introduced at motorways. The key objective of the study is to inform policy makers about options to reduce urban emissions and noise of HDV in a most efficient way. In alternative modelling scenarios the effects of introduction and variation of prices for truck use will be analysed. On one hand, a price differentiation between HDV classes based on their emission and noise levels will be modelled. On the other hand, differentiated prices for ecological sensitive or living areas vs. e.g. industrial zones will be considered. In addition the study will explore alternative policy instruments and compare them to road pricing with respect to impacts and costs. > TELLUS. CIVITAS. 5

6 CharterCAB, an Innovative mobility service for the MobileClub Members The CharterCAB, a mixture between a cab and a bus, is a part of the TELLUS project, sponsored by the European union. The target of the service, starting its operation as a shuttle service to the railroad traffic in the south of Berlin on the 30th Nov 2002, is the reduction of the individual car traffic and a better and more flexible passenger transport. Passengers of the CharterCAB using a space car for three to eight persons, such as the DaimlerChrysler s Vaneo, can book this chauffeur based vehicle for shuttle services between the communities of Kleinmachnow, Teltow, Stahnsdorf and the railroad stations Wannsee, Lichterfelde- Ost and Krumme Lanke. Using CharterCAB is only possible for club members, organized by the CarModal mobile club. The membership is open to everyone. The annual fee for the membership is 10 Euro. The fee per journey is 3.30 plus 1 Euro for house collection within a radius of one km of the service operations corridors. Members book a journey by phone or via internet using their customer number. The payment is carried out over an invoice at the end of each month. The vehicles are provided by local cab enterprises in the time between 5 p.m. and 1 a.m. (Fr and Sa till 2 a.m.). Passengers can book their transportation orders over a mobile phone. The CharterCAB is an innovative and customer friendly mobility solution, which combines the conventional offers of a cab with those of public transport. Management Business Game for Urban Public Transport The Objectives of the Tellus-Workpackage Future Management and Quality Assurance of Urban Public Transport are to probe new procedures for the modernisation of the organisational and financial frameworks for future-oriented public urban transport under the future conditions of liberalisation and competition.actually running is a management business game with local main actors of public transport authorities, different public transport operators and organisations of passengers. Various forms are in discussion to establish a new level of management in relation to transportsystem operators and the municipality. The next subject in this game will be a simulation of principle forms to tender public transport. The object is to find an adequate definition tender lot creation considering and integrating multiple modes and targets. Metropolitan Fleet Car The technical development of Metropolitan Fleet Car has been accomplished. A web based car sharing software for companies has been successfully tested and subsequently introduced. The next generation of keyless vehicle access for multi user customers is being introduced in all Deutsche Bahn Carsharing (DB Carsharing) vehicles. A new business car sharing pricing scheme for DB Carsharing has been introduced nationwide, starting 1st Jan In the meantime, 40 cities in Germany, including Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, have joined the DB Carsharing network. For further information see: (in German only). CharterCAB - Corridor of the variable distance course. Chipcard for keyless access to the vehicle. 6. CIVITAS. TELLUS <

7 Natural Gas Commercial Vehicles at the West Port The operator of the inner city logistics centre (BEHALA West Port) supports the GASAG s introduction of natural gas operated utility vehicles by the haulage companies within the TELLUS project. Because of its special proximity to the forwarding agents market, BEHALA plays an important role as a sales multiplier. All the more that settlement of new haulage companies in BEHALA West Port can be reckoned within the next years. This location is alr e a d y equipped with a trimodale container terminal (ship / train / truck). The forwarding agents settled in the West Port are supplied View of the BEHALA West Port. over the terminal with container and change bridges and distribute the delivered goods to the end customers in Berlin. For these short inner city distributor traffics the forwarding agents shall use natural gas vehicles in future. Financing Models for CNG vehicles In the transport sector financing models, as leasing and hire-purchase, are well known for a long period and outsourcing of fleet management increases the last years. These models could be used for sales and distribution of utiliy vehicles, but they are not yet - even though the CNG fraction in some region becomes a relevant economic factor. The Berliner Energieagentur wants to include leasing firms as a competent and relevant partner in the market implementation of CNG vehicles for goods contribution. By means of this objective the Berliner Energieagentur has performed a qualitative census about the leasing market for CNG vehicles and has defined success factors for the market distribution. In a workshop at the 26th September 2002 for the experience exchange between supply and demand the participants pointed out that: - Leasing is a success promising instrument for the promotion to distribute of NG vehicles - Leasing firms identify numerous possibilities of own and cooperating promotion activities - Leasing offers can be optimised referring to economic vertices, flexibility through km-contracts and formation of pools On basis of the analysis of the workshop measures to support the leasing for CNG vehicles and a convenient PR will be developed. Customer Participation in the Introduction of the CharterCAB As a project team adviser P.O.P. is active by the introduction planning of the CharterCAB (see page 5) since the beginning of the TELLUS project. As the first step, the potential target groups for the CharterCAB were identified. On this base it was possible to consider them for the price and service segments planned. In a campaign, with differentiated measures for the relevant target groups with their decision makers, multipliers and users, first members of the ClubModel have been recruited and the CharterCAB gained a public attention. With a simulation of the complete CharterCAB mode the prephase of the introduction was completed: the first test users were involved, the CharterCAB-driver s training and preparation carried out. A test night followed, with order tours, coordination of the journeys and evaluation by the drivers on the 15 Nov The perception of a everyday user, established during a customer workshop on the 23rd with ten customers of the CharterCAB and Eloq and Cityfunk as operators, was used as a feedback towards improvements of the official launch on the 30th Nov This user participation approach is continued with involvement of well known representatives of the politics, administration and citizen action committees initiatives. In order to bring the user view in the long term product customisation, the user and customer participation events will also be used in the further CarModal initiatives within the TELLUS project. Natural Gas Vehicles, our Environment Initiative of Today One of the targets which shall be accomplished in Berlin in the context of the TELLUS project is the introduction of natural gas operated vehicles in the > TELLUS. CIVITAS. 7

8 freight traffic. Commercial vehicles offer a large potential to economize soot particles, SO2, hydrocarbons and nitric oxides because of the popularity of the diesel powered vehicles in this area. Particularly many of the so called good fine distribution vehicles are in transit within the municipal area. Therefore, the introduction of natural gas operated vehicles is supported financially by 100 natural gas operated commercial vehicles in this segment. Support prerequisite is compliance with the pollutant limitations, in accordance with the EURO IV. Unfortunately, the supply of promoting capable vehicles by the automobile manufacturers left much to wish, so that the promotional program can only start in the beginning of Nevertheless, TELLUS natural gas vehicles have executed a large presentation of natural gas vehicles in the Berlin Sony centre on the 21 st to 23rd of November Under the title Jetzt Vorfahren -Natural Gas Vehicles, our environment initiative of today a four-part user forum (with participation of Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Enviroment, Nature Conservervation and Nuclear Saftey Margareta Wolf), talks and interviews with experienced practitioners as well as a variety entertainment program was carried out. Dynamic Real - Time Passenger Information for Trams Using dynamic real-time passenger information for trams higher attractiveness will be available for short time public transport. Therefore the public transport operation control centre will be adapted by a module to control the dynamic passenger information. Parts of the central control operation management system are now in a module test phase. First results of the man machine interface are shown in the picture of the central control monitor of the operation system. Next project steps follows the test schedules. In parallel location and installation of the information panels are scheduled and the procurement of the information panels will be prepared. *** Man Machine Interface for the operation management center for public transport. 8. CIVITAS. TELLUS <

9 TELLUS.göteborg TELLUS.göteborg Göteborg has during the first months of TELLUS finally managed to find qualified project coordinators for all the projects. With these in place, the work runs in general according to the planning. We are currently producing an information leaflet in Swedish, which will serve as one of the tools for the marketing of TELLUS on a local and national level. In this newsletter all demonstrations in Göteborg are presented. One of them, the Environmental Zone, is described in more detail. Environmental Zone Milestone 1: Criteria for new zone (Month: 9 ) Milestone 2: Report on on-line emissions testing (Month 18) Milestone 3: Report on emissions transit traffic (Month 36) Milestone 4: Evaluation report The Traffic and Public Transport Authority will develop the existing Environmental Zone in the inner city of Göteborg. The zone has existed since 1996 and is an efficient way to minimize the environmental influence from heavy vehicles. In order to further improve the air quality in the central parts of the city, the demands for traffic entering the zone need to be more stringent. A plan for an expansion of the zone area is also going to be developed. Environmental Zone. Suggestion of new criteria for rules in the environmental zone has been set up as a result of several discussions between the other concerned cities in Sweden. Göteborg plans to introduce the new rules in January Also a plan for enlargement of the environmental zone has been proposed. A new part of Göteborg, Lundby, is growing on the north side of the river and this new area is proposed to be included in the zone. Information signs are at the moment being placed at all entrance roads to the existing zone, altogether 32 signs. Also at all rest areas along the highways, signs will be placed with maps showing the zone area. An information leaflet about the environmental zone has been produced in English and Swedish. Incentives for purchasing CNG heavy duty vehi- cles The project, run by FordonsGas Väst AB, aims at decreasing emissions of NOx and particles for transit heavy traffic on the major transit road in the city to the harbour of Göteborg. By introducing CNG heavy duty trucks and a product called Green Tonnage, carbon dioxide-free transports can be offered. The CNG heavy duty trucks will be run on biogas. Expanding and introducing environmentally optimised water-borne public transport While there has been a strong environmental development in public transport on land, the development in the maritime sector has lagged behind. The aim of the project is therefore to plan and build an environmentally optimised river shuttle to be used for public transport in the city centre. Introducing incentives for improving the load fac- tor in inner city freight transport In the inner city of Göteborg there is a congestion of heavy transports not able to find a place to load and unload. In some area s trucks are forced to keep driving to find appropriate space to load/ unload. The project aims at designing and introducing a zone for inner-city distribution in Göteborg. In this city zone, a demand on load rate on the vehicles, beside the demands on emission levels, will be introduced. Developing customer driven goods distribution management The project will increase the efficiency of transport of goods and people in a development and residential area. There will be focus on show case development for optimising incoming goods to companies in the area. By seminars and workshops, among other things, the buyer companies shall be influenced to create better purchasing routines. *** > TELLUS. CIVITAS. 9

10 TELLUS.gdynia TELLUS.gdynia The Municipality of Gdynia through participation in the TELLUS consortium is willing to transform the city centre into the clean urban transport area. This is to be realised by a thorough modernisation of the main city street. For this purpose the street was divided into three parts according to the time of their modernisation. Up to now the city managed to complete the first part which was officially opened to the public on the 23rd of June There are two issues which are very important for the success of the project in our city. At first it is the acceptance of inhabitants and shop/ restaurants keepers of the modernisation. The second thing is the continuous political support of the local politicians with executive powers. The first issue was assured by various meetings held during and before modernisation where all the problems were discussed and clarified. The inhabitants had also the chance to become familiar with details of the project in Gdynia thanks to the Polish version of the TELLUS leaflet distributed in October. As to the political support of the project in Gdynia the situation became clear after the last local elections. Since there has been no significant change, the city policy in this field is regarded as crucial and will be continued. of small architecture related to the public and bicycle traffic (for example the fixed bicycle holders). - Promotion actions in favour of the new style ecological trolley bus transport as well as other means of PT and bicycles. The modernisation includes also other preparatory works which are not included in the TELLUS project like widening of pavements, renewal of the street surface as well as of the underground installation. The project foresees the following milestones - first stage of modernisation (already accomplished) - demonstration and monitoring of the use of clean urban transport (month 18) - second stage of modernisation of the street (month 30) - third stage of modernisation of the street (month 42) A part of TELLUS: Installation of the trolley bus traction. - final adaptation of the trolley bus traction (month 42) - demonstration and monitoring of the use of clean transport on the whole street (month 42) What is precisely being done in Gdynia in the TELLUS project - Installation of the trolley bus traction. The capacity of the public transport will be increased through eliminating the overloading of the City Centre by private motor vehicles. The enhanced trolley bus transport will contribute to cleaner and safer communication conditions and also will significantly take over the role of present private transport in the central area. The 1615 meters of modern installation created in the framework of the project will be considered as the demonstration for other parts of Gdynia as well as other Polish cities. - Reorganisation of parking places. The installed road guards will allow to introduce the city policy in the field of access restriction to the main city area. - Equipping the streets with attractive spatial elements *** Announcement The TELLUS Consortium would like to invite you all to join the open Workshop on Integrated Planning. The workshop will take place on the 18th and 19th of September 2003 in Gdynia, Poland. More information will be published on the TELLUS website CIVITAS. TELLUS <

11 TELLUS.bucharest TELLUS.bucharest Bucharest, as the largest city of Romania, is confronted with major traffic problems, which develop negative effects, as energy consumption, noise and pollutant emissions. In this respect, efforts, to improve the inhabitants life by implementing innovative solutions and technologies, are given in order to promote public transportation and decrease the private car usage. This is an attempt to increase the awareness of environmental problems Thus, the integration of the transport policies into the city development policies has to be a realistic approach, supported by the policy-makers and by all other actors involved. Short summary of the TELLUS.Bucharest de- monstrations Bucharest s intention is to maintain a high level of public transport usage by service quality improvements. These improvements consist in a clean fleet structure based on low and silent vehicles and in an efficient public transport management system. The solutions and technologies used for the management system are innovative since the localization of the fleet will be made by GPS and the payment system will be based on smartcards. In the attempt of lowering the congestion in the city center, a large underground parking will be arranged in one of the main traffic nodes from Bucharest Gara de Nord. The positive effects foreseen for this demonstration are the elimination of the illegal parking in the area and on the boundary of the city center, and the improvement of the fluency of the public transport vehicles. Parking restrictions in central area Gara de Nord is also one of the traffic conflict areas in Bucharest where the traffic is very high and complicated by the illegal parking. The large parking facility projected in this area will solve a major problem by eliminating the undesirable bottlenecks. This underground parking will have a capacity of about 1700 places distributed on two levels, a third level being reserved for commercial spaces. The integration with the railway system will be made by a pedestrian passage that links the parking with the railway station. For assessing the effects of the parking arrangement in the area, we have started the quantitative and qualitative research before the works begin, carrying out specific traffic and environment surveys. One of the main gains of this demonstration is the collaboration between all actors involved in integration of the transport strategies within the city development in order to improve the traffic fluency, remodeling the public transport network, restricting the vehicle usage in the central area etc. This facility will be finished during the project s lifetime in Month 31. Fleet management by GPS and Modernizing the ticketing and payment system of the public trans- port The attempt of fleet management modernization is based on up-to-date technologies and innovative solutions in order to offer new mobility advantages as less travel times, free transfer among surface and underground transportation, new fare products, real time information etc. The fleet localization based on GPS will allow us to gather the real time data about every vehicles in the fleet. The implementation of the new ticketing system will offer the passengers the possibility to choose the fare product they prefer most and to travel more easily, using both surface and underground transport. In order to study the effects of these demonstration implementations, we are carrying out different evaluation studies, and in the same time we are making the procedural steps for systems implementation. Both demonstrations will be applied during the project lifetime, as the systems implementation is foreseen for month 29. Due to the fact that the demonstrations imply public acceptance, a marketing campaign is planned for the foregoing period in order to increase the knowledge about our modernized service. Clean and Silent Public Transport Fleet The specific objective of this demonstration is to extend the electric vehicle usage in public transport with the aid of the adequate technological and economical support. During the project lifetime a minimum of 60 trolleybuses will be procured and a minimum of 30 trams will be manufactured in RATB s Repairing Plant. Until now, 14 trolleybuses have been acquired and 3 trams have been fabricated and the tram infrastructure modernization is in progress (milestones in months 12, 24 and 36 for trams, months 8, 19, 31, and 42 for trolleys). A study was carried out based on the check of the technical status of the actual fleet including the energy consumption, split by vehicle types. The demonstration evaluation started by establishing measurement methods and indicators. *** > TELLUS. CIVITAS. 11

12 Sustainable urban transport for the Europe of tomorrow Contact us! CONTACT ROTTERDAM Mirjam van Oosterhout Rotterdam CONTACT BERLIN Tele-Parking System Itzik Barry Mobipower Ltd. tel: Conceptual Scheme for High Duty Vehicle Road Pricing Thorsten Beckers TUB tb@wip.tu-berlin.de tel: CharterCAB, an Innovative mobility service for the MobileClub Members Michael Sandrock Eloqu msandrock@eloqu.com tel: Management Business Game for Urban Public Transport Michael Lehmbrock DiFu lehmbrock@difu.de tel: Metropolitan Fleet Car Felix Beutler WZB beutler@wz-berlin.de tel: Natural Gas Commercial Vehicles at the West Port Axel Reichelt BEHALA A.Reichelt@behala.de tel: Financing Models for CNG vehicles Kerstin Kallmann BEA kallmann@berliner-e-agentur.de tel: Customer Participation in the Introduction of the CharterCAB Heidemarie Arnhold P.O.P arnhold@pop-consulting.de tel: Dynamic Real - Time Passen- ger Information for Trams Winfred Wanke BVG winfred.wanke@bvg.de tel: Natural Gas Vehicles, our Environment Initiative of Today Rainer B. Giesel GASAG rbgiesel@web.de tel: CONTACT GÖTEBORG Environmental Zone Hanna Johansson Trafikkontoret hanna.johansson@trafikkontoret.goteborg.se tel: Incentives for purchasing CNG heavy duty vehicles Gunnar Ingelman FordonsGas Väst AB gunnar.ingelman@fordonsgas.se tel: Expanding and introducing environmentally optimised water-borne public transport Jakob Lagercrantz Consultant Trafikkontoret jakob.lagercrantz@ecoplan.se tel: Introducing incentives for improving the load factor in inner city freight transport Magnus Blinge TFK magnus.blinge@tfk.se tel: Developing customer driven goods distribution management Johan Axelsson Norra Älvstranden Utveckling AB johan.axelsson@visionlundby.goteborg.se tel: CONTACT GDYNIA Krystyna Borkowska Municipality of Gdynia umeuro@poczta.onet.pl tel: Michal Guc Municipality of Gdynia m.guc@gdynia.pl tel: Maciej Warszakowski Municipality of Gdynia m.warszakowski@gdynia.pl tel: Marek Stepa Municipality of Gdynia m.stepa@gdynia.pl tel: Imprint Agnieszka Lipert Municipality of Gdynia a.lipert@gdynia.pl tel: CONTACT BUCHAREST Parking restrictions in cen- tral area Sorin Negrea RATB sorinegr@ratb.ro tel: Fleet management by GPS and Modernizing the ticketing and payment system of the public transport Laurentiu Rizea RATB lrizea@ratb.ro tel: Clean and Silent Public Transport Fleet Laura Rizea RATB laura@ratb.ro tel: PUBLISHER Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, Am Köllnischen Park 3, Berlin, Germany LOCAL EDITOR ROTTERDAM - Hugo van der Leek, Municipality of Rotterdam, h.leek@obr.rotterdam.nl, tel: ; BERLIN - Wolfgang Steinicke, FAV, wsteinicke@fav.de, tel: ; GÖTEBORG - Sofie Vennersten, Trafikkontoret, sofie.vennersten@trafikkontoret.goteborg.se, tel: , GDYNIA - Maciej Warszakowski, Municipality of Gdynia, m.warszakowski@gdynia.pl, tel: ; BUCHAREST - Lucia Cristea, RATB, lucia.cristea@ratb.ro, tel: LAYOUT and SETTING Ulrich Giese, Senstadt, ulrich.giese@senstadt.verwalt-berlin.de, tel: and Gerd Müller, Senstadt, gerd.mueller@senstadt.verwalt-berlin.de, tel: The Civitas Initiative is co-financed by the European Commission CIVITAS. TELLUS <