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MOBILITY SHOW 2006 - Session C
ITS: Intelligent Solutions for Urban Mobility Management
Olga Landolfi
Segretario Generale
TTS Italia
Via di Priscilla, 101 – 00199 Roma
Tel: +39 06 862258206
Fax: +39 06 86202358
E mail: ttsitalia@ttsitalia.it |
Italy has one of the highest internal traffic flows in Europe, with 947,205 million passengers-Km/year. Of these, 92.40% choose to use the road. Goods flows over 50 km are 211,206 million tons-km/year on the national territory, 65.33% of which are carried out on the roads [National Count of Infrastructure and Transport 2004].
The exponential increase in the demand for mobility that our country has experienced in the last few decades has also gone hand in hand with a dramatic structural change in such demand. For passengers, the traditional “individual trip” mobility model, in which the trip started and finished at the passenger’s home, has been replaced by a “multiple trip” model, in which a typical trip consists of an interconnected group of trips, made to perform some activity.
For goods, the transition from a “stock” economy to a “flow” economy, the delocalisation of productive operations and the extension of the markets have increased the importance and complexity of the transport chain across the logistic process.
Forecasts suggest that traffic flows are bound to grow in the next few years, with devastating consequences on the environment, the quality of life, transport safety and the whole economy of our country.
As proven by some international experiences, the challenges thrown by the relentless increase in the demand for mobility need to be faced with a “system”-based approach, in which information, management and control must work in synergism, maximising the use of infrastructures, vehicles and logistic platforms, from a multimodal perspective.
ITS – Intelligent Transport Systems play a decisive role in this strategic approach.
ITS, which is based on an interaction between information and telecommunication technology, turn transport into an “integrated system”, in which traffic flows are equally shared out among the different modes, thus increasing the efficiency, productivity and above all the safety of transport.
The use of the systems that have been developed so far on an urban and suburban scale has enabled us to tangibly assess the benefits provided by ITS. EU data reveal that in several applications across the EU, transfer times have decreased by 20%, network capacity has increased by 5-10% and safety has improved by 10-15% through coordinated information and control strategies.
These positive results are evidence of the benefits that ITS systems can provide in terms of sustainable development, protection of the environment and improvement of efficiency, of citizens’ safety and competitiveness, and confirm that ITS are by now a key tool to implement the public mobility objectives.
This paper will review the main ITS solutions for mobility management and control that have been implemented in our country.
Special attention will be paid to the national architecture ARTIST, which is the greatest initiative ever taken in Italy to boost the development and implementation of ITS systems in our country. |
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