INTERCEPT - Intermodal Concepts in European Passenger Transport
Overview
Background & policy context:
Encouraging intermodal door-to-door transport solutions for passenger
travel in urban areas calls for grouping together individual measures in
order to improve their acceptance among the public. Cities are interested
in increasing the level of car restraint in central areas and this calls
for interchanges and public transport products such as integrated
ticketing to provide viable alternatives to the car. In hinterland areas,
where the population density is often insufficient to support a supply of
fixed-schedule, fixed-route public transport, services need to be
organised that enable travellers to efficiently interconnect with the
public transport network. The integration of linkage services such as
park&ride, PT+taxi, PT+car sharing, helps to provide an effective
intermodal door-to-door alternative to the car in such cases.
Objectives:
The main project aim was to develop, integrate and demonstrate in three sites (Barcelona, Bremen and Bristol) a series of measures based on integrated transport telematics applications to support strategies for promoting passenger intermodality in urban areas.
Specific aims of the project were to assess travel behaviour, user acceptance and implementation for the following schemes:
- integration of the original public transport trip planner with parking guidance information, multi-modal P&R ticketing, and video-based automated access control in Barcelona;
- integration of the original public transport trip planner with car sharing and taxi information, electronic ticketing for public transport, profile-based taxi dispatching, and electronic booking of car sharing in Bremen;
- bus trip planner and electronic road pricing with variable user charging in Bristol.
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