Sustainable intelligent transport solutions andcooperative mobility planning to solve cross-border mobility dilemmas

Project ManagerKalle Toivonen

Background• Project started on September 2016 and will run for 3 years till 31.8.2019

• Funded by Interreg Central Baltic programme

• Total funding of 1.8 million euros

• 1.4 million euros contributed by programme

• Project consist of 6 partners and one associate partnero City of Helsinki (700 000 €), City Tallinn (440 000 €), City of Vantaa (199 900 €),

Estonian Road Administration (228 000 €), Forum Virium Helsinki (154 000 €), ICTDemo Center (100 000 €)

o Helsinki region transport as associate partner

Defining the challenge

• Over 200 000 trucks travelling through city centers annually

• Around 10 million passengers annually

• With variety of reasons for travel: workers, leisure time, studying,transit and more

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Home country

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Source: Finnish Traffic Agency, 2016

%= of all ferrypassengers

Traffic creates 4 key challenges1) CO2 and noise emission2) Varying flow of traffic

Driving times from port area towards citycenter

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3) Lack of parking spaces in port area

4) Limping travel chains and user-friendliness

For an optimist challengestransfer into opportunities

• Over 200 000 trucks travelling through citycenters annually

• Around 10 million passengers annually withvariety of reasons for travel

Reasons for travel

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Study Meeting Vacation

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Source: Statistics Finland 2015; Tak 2015

But to better take advantage of thesenumbers, we need solutions

Presenting practical solutions tosolve common problems – for

example the hate tram dilemma…

Clever but in all honesty…

Smart solutions based on you makingthe sacrifices ?!

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Solutions that we are seekingare:• Dynamic and pragmatic improvements and

enablers that directly enhance the mobility flowsand have direct impact to mobility planning

• Smooth integration of the different modalities,and easy to use information of the publictransport options

• Prioritize sustainable transport mode choices

Five larger pilots to tackle thechallenge

1.PILOT A: Just-in-time logistics for inbound Heavy Good Vehicles, based on truck parkingat the ring-roads

2.PILOT B: Smart and dynamic mobility management for outbound traffic

3.PILOT C: Smart Park&Ride for ferry passengers with private cars to increase the use ofpublic transport for the port entry/exit.

4.PILOT D: Smart traffic solution for transport chain from Estonia to Helsinki Airport withferry connection.

5.PILOT E: Feasibility study with a pilot on Tallinn ringroad

IN ADDITION TO PILOTS:1.Integration of cross-border public transport and ferry options into the open source mobility

navigator2.Tallinn Region Sustainable Mobility plan harmonized with Helsinki Region plan

Resulting in…

• 5-10% less time spend in the city area byheavy good vehicles

• 5% less private vehicles in the port area

• Pilots reduce the congestion and speed upout-bound traffic by average of 20 minutesper trip

Moving forward froma to b• All pilots start with a one-year planning stage done

together by all partners

• The preparation includes identification of the keystakeholders and partners, defining the developmentprocess and scope of plan, plan for stakeholder andcitizens involvement as well as living lab minipilots

• The larger pilots will be implemented in 2018-2019.

• Impact assesment

Ralf will tell you bit more aboutminipilots planned