CITYNETMOBIL - City Network for Fair Mobility
Overview
Background & policy context:
CityNetMobil focused on automated transport systems and its approach was to organise dissemination actions to raise awareness around these systems. Awareness to increase acceptance by politicians, local mobility planners and general public, of automated transport systems as a more inclusive urban transport solution, providing better access to all, environmentally friendly, capable of reducing urban transport share of energy consumption and CO2 emission, and safer than conventional transport modes.
Objectives:
Seventh in a stream of projects, CityNetMobil, will disseminate the results obtained by all its predecessors, coordinate the activities of a group of cities interested in these types of systems and willing to host events to make people acquainted with such technology, and network toward other cities to introduce automated transport systems to them.
The latest of the six predecessor projects, CityMobil, first had the idea of creating a reference group of cities with the aim of receiving suggestions on mobility problems which could be addressed with advanced transport systems. This reference group however proved to be more than just a prompter of mobility problems. Cities soon asked for some type of action by the project to promote advanced transport systems there.
CityNetMobil started from a reference group, re-invited the member cities and others who wanted to join, to a selection process and then organised events in five selected cities. CityNetMobil prepared common dissemination material to inform and invite people to the events and to greet people (e.g. audiovisual material, posters and gadgets). Each CityNetMobil event featured the installation of a small showcase of moving automated vehicles, a conference and an exhibition with audiovisuals and poster display. To maximise the visibility of the events the possibility of cooperation with other scientific or cultural events was sought.
Methodology:
Four types of Automated Transport Systems (ATSs) were tested:
- Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
- PT feeder Cyber Cars (PTFCC)
- High-Tech bus (HT bus)
- Dual-mode Vehicles (DMV).
In order to assess the contribution towards sustainability a number of activities was deployed:
- Three large scale demonstrations (London Heathrow (PRT), Castellon (HT Bus), Rome (PTFCC)) where technology was implemented and was part of the existing transportation system.
- Five showcases (Daventry, Trondheim, Vantaa, La Rochelle and Orta San Giulio)
- Four city studies (Madrid, Trondheim, Vienna and Gateshead)
To evaluate the contribution of the ATSs towards urban sustainability a list of evaluation categories and related indicators has been designed and put into an evaluation framework. The major evaluation categories are; acceptance, quality of service, transport patterns, social impact, environment and economic.
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