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Overview

Transport is a complex and crucial part of a city's infrastructure, and it becomes even more so in the context of hosting major sporting events. This can consume up to about 20 % of the local organising committee's (LOC) budget, and requires massive organisation in a short space of time. To address this, the EU-funded 'Smart transport applications designed for large events with impacts on urban mobility' (STADIUM) project was established. The project tested information and communication technology (ICT) systems at major sporting events. This included the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Cape Town (South Africa), the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi (India), and the 2012 Olympic Games in London (United Kingdom).

Objectives

To improve the performance of transport systems in the framework of large events hosted by big cities, by designing, producing and testing of an integrated handbook, to increase the level of performance of transport service in most of the targeted performance dimensions. The targets are

Implementing “tailored” ITS applications at large events outside Europe (South Africa & India) – Demonstration of valuable technologies not yet diffused in those countries. o Promotion of European know how
Deploy advanced applications in a technology mature context (London) – Added value of large ITS applications integration
Develop a tool to guide large events hosting cities in choosing appropriate ITS applications to optimize their transport strategies implementations

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Project Status

Ongoing (May 2009 – )

CONTACT

Ronald Adams

Rijkswaterstraat

Mobile: +31 6 518 480 77

Email: ronald.adams@rws.nl

Partners

ERTICO and Others

Inputs

Many forms of ITS technology have been used to manage the impact of events specifically on mobility. Within this research we concentrate on those systems that Host Cities can deploy and control. These include:

Automated Traffic Management Systems – such as Urban Traffic Control for continuous monitoring of traffic conditions
Transport Operations Systems - for PT management and demand management; WP2-SOTA Report May 2011 14
Traveller Information Systems – based where possible on real-time information delivered to the hosting community and the public
Road Usage Payment Collection Systems
Situation Management Systems – that automatically detect, classify, diagnose and resolve incidents
Parking Management Systems – so that where Park & Ride facilities are provided for the event analysis of occupancy data can be used to direct vehicles to appropriate Park & Ride facilities that are not yet full
Safety Systems – such as collision avoidance systems based on autonomous-vehicle, autonomous-infrastructure and cooperative communication systems that together potentially address the full set of incidents
Security Systems - including technology that helps control access (ticketing) or surveillance (camera technology)
Ticketing and Access Systems – including recent advances in smart card, RFID and contactless tickets combining both event entry and public transport payment
Communication Systems - ICT tools can be used to find, explore, analyse, exchange and present information responsibly and without discrimination. These encompass a range of telecommunication media including telephones & mobiles, broadcast media, Internet and emails
Camera Technologies – in particular CCTV and ANPR for security, enforcement and traffic flow data for input to route guidance systems
Positioning System - a mainstay of transportation systems worldwide, providing navigation for aviation, ground, and maritime operations
Traffic Management Technology – a broad range of systems used in urban traffic management control that allows previously disparate data from multiple sources such as ANPR cameras, Variable-message sign, SCOOT Loops, car parks, traffic signals, air quality monitoring stations and meteorological data, to be amalgamated into a central console or database
Visual Scene Analysis – to improve safety and security by providing decision support management capabilities

Assets

Pilot sites

FIFA World Cup 2010 in Cape Town, Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, Olympics 2012 in London. These three demonstration sites are characterised by a diverse range of features in terms of types of Local Public Transport (LPT), traffic supervision and management of extraordinary incidents. The partners in STADIUM were faced with different aspects in the management of the organisation and planning of smart applications to implement during the events.

Implementation and testing sites

In Brazil for the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
A user group of cities interested in co-operation with STADIUM in view of the preparation of future events comprises Glasgow (Commonwealth Games 2014); Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Kiev and Kharkov (Euro 2012); Milan (World Expo 2015); and Madrid.

Achievements/Benifits

An online handbook to support all those involved in the organization of transport services for large events, which has been created from the experience and inputs from the user group of cities which have cooperated with the STADIUM project. The Handbook provides cities planning to host large events with a specific tool and a set of guidelines to identify and implement the most suitable ITS applications. The guide works as a decision support system for administrators of candidate cities at different stages of decision, planning and implementation process of intelligent transport systems. Handbook users are guided through a four-step assessment process. To each typology of events (four typologies have been identified according to their magnitude, duration, multiple events,…) corresponds to a set of transport requirements, ranked by relevance to the specific event. For each of the requirements, the most suitable responding mobility strategies are presented and classified by priority set by the proven effectiveness in a large number of cases. Finally, the selection of the ITS solutions proved to have successfully supported the delivery of selected strategies, is proposed to the user with the description of the technologies available and references to ‘best cases’.

Considering the result of the project and the benefits collected, and taking into account other cooperation research project, it could be of value to consider the STADIUM demonstrator as a system as an upper level of the existing ones, as part of a UTCM system, Urban Traffic Control Management System. This could allow previously disparate data from multiple sources such as VM system, traffic system, Variable-message sign (VMS), car parks, traffic signals, air quality monitoring STADIUM Final Report 11 stations and meteorological data, to be merged into a central console or database. This in order to maximize road network potential to create a more robust and intelligent system that can be used:

to meet current and future management requirements

to extend the solution with real time traffic information in order to enhance the quality of the information provided, considering other transport research project
to integrate such a solution with both existing and future systems (AVL/AVM providing information on position of buses/metro and system for monitoring of paratransit), and other existing or future systems providing data on traffic, with the goal to provide an integrated view and providing integrated infomobility services :

1. to consider the importance of the planning of the transport service and implementation in common platform in order to improve the quality of the transport service provided and consequently the passenger demand and the reduction of pollution and traffic congestion

2. to extend the solution to all the city; to consider that there are an example in other big cities where the transport service is operated by several companies (public/private), and this could be a natural evolution in New Delhi transport policy

3. the implementation of an UCTM upper level and the relevant integration is the smoothest way for service integration

if GPS is installed on paratransit, to use the information as FCD data for traffic analysis

4. to integrate the paratransit service for booking purpose for the ones interested

Services

The ITS Decision Support Tool features more than 30 ITS applications. They respond to challenges in domains such as:

Dynamic traffic management systems & real-time traffic information.
Public transport:

1. tracking and tracing, fleet management

2. demand-responsive transport

3. integrated ticketing and information for taxis and buses

4. bus and special vehicle priority

5. inner-city public transport services implemented along major axes, with links to district hubs, modal interchange points and 6. other centers (e.g. stadium, Olympic village etc.).

Tools to optimize operational transport plans according to historic and real-time demand data.
Web-based systems to integrate public transport and traffic management; operations, and provide sources of data for delivery to mobile users, both private and commercial.
Travel information services based on mobile communications, for real-time traffic and public transport service information, mobile payment, special event information and booking, etc.
Demand management strategies based on economics and measures to influence travel behavior.