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Nowadays in the city of Rome there are more than 2 million cars. Pedestrian and public transport's shares are only 20% each of the total mobility, while 60% of the trips are covered by private transport.
The increasing of private mobility in the metropolitan area has caused a quick and wide decreasing of the quality of life in the whole city. Starting from this point, the local administration has developed a policy aiming at improving mobility to modify modal split in favor of public transport.
Use Case Objectives
Raising passengers' comfort even in peak conditions, improving the driver's workplace to answer better to healthy and safety issues and enhancing remote maintenance system are the main objectives targeted by the EBSF Use Case in Rome from September 2010 to August 2011.
Description of the work
The Use Case of Rome consists of running a test of prototype vehicle focusing on five main operational areas:
- Internal layout
- Modularity
- Driver place
- ITS System, particularly Auto Vehicle Monitoring, remote maintenance and on board communication
- Energy saving and recovery systems: CNG Engine
The previous items in the depots organization and in the optimization of vehicle availability rate will be tested in terms of operative impact. Because of the specific UC location, the demonstration vehicle and the involved infrastructures have to be designed according to the environmental and structural constrains of Rome urban layout.
The tests will be performed on the basis of the devices, developed by the WP 2.2 and prototyped by WP 2.7, either in stand alone condition or installed on vehicle, and on AVM system developed and tested by WP3.2. All the tests will be executed as a combination of demonstrator vehicles running in operational conditions and systems of infrastructures features. All data collected with the application of system approach will be taken to feed the KPI calculator and allow simulations.
The main objective of the WP is to provide a detailed an analytical report on contents, objectives, background, constrains, testing features and conditions. At the end of the use case, a deployment and execution report containing the obtained results will be provided.
In particular, the economic impact of the tested devices will be analyzed in terms of cost reduction and revenues increase with particular regards to:
- Drivers' role, maintenance, commercial speed, AVMs, optimization of the depots process, transport capacity, passengers' information and accessibility.
Partners
The partners involved in the UC Rome are the following:
- FRAUNHOFER, who will provide technical support in the driver cabin testing
- IRISBUS, who will provide the demonstrator vehicle and support the testing activities
- RATP, who will provide technical support in the remote maintenance system testing and depot organization
- ATV, who will provide technical support either in the remote maintenance and AVM system testing, data collection activities and depot organization
- ATAC, who will lead the UC activities, coordinating the partners involved in coordination with ASSTRA
- EUROLUM, who will provide technical support in Energy saving and recovery systems and in remote maintenance systems.
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