AVM case studies for Public Transport: innovative applications in Italy

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AVM case studies for Public Transport
innovative applications in Italy
BITS, Bridging the European ITS Business
Co-operation with China Shanghai, 3-5 March, 2003

• Marino Mazzon, Commercial Manager
• Thetis S.p.A., Venice, Italy
• www.thetis.it

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Summary
case studies

• The Venice experience a multi-user system
• The Rome experience a scalable system associated
  to the payment scheme
• The Milan experience a waste collection
  management system

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systems supplied by Thetis, using Transmodel

• Rome, Jubilee Lines 110 buses
• Rome, East Lines 132 buses
• Rome, West Lines 132 buses
• Rome, South Lines 130 buses
• Vicenza, extra-urban buses 230 buses
• Parma, urban buses 170 buses
• Milan, waste collection trucks 600 trucks

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case study one Orion,to manage transport in
Venice

• features multiuser architecturea service
  company

experience five years
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The Orion multiuser system
TV cameras
Radar, other
GPS onboard systems

• the service provider positioning and fleet
  management data, turnkey maintenance
• data localization, environment, territory
• In-field communication via radio or GSM, GPRS
• real time data to users control rooms via ISDN
  lines
• The idea is also suited to small size urban areas

t r a f f i c
Service centre
Environmental data
Territory accessibility
users
taxi
emergency
deliveries
administration
public transport
garbage collection
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Effects

• Municipality
• sustainability of urban environment
• better use of the city and its environment
• Planning, statistics
• fleet operators
• improvement of transport efficiency (scheduling,
  loading, paths...)
• improvement of services to users
• Passengers
• Better perceived service
• Access to information

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The service provider structure
meteo
VHF Radio (2) UHF Radio (1)
differential GPS
radar
GPS
consoles
database
communications
LAN
router
web
DB server WEB server
major users
recording
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60 LED panels in town provide next arrival times
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Case study two fleet management and service
quality reporting for the Rome Jubilee and
peripheral bus lines(some 500 buses)

• features GSM communicationEvent driven
  systemservice quality certification

experience two years
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The basis
Bus operator companies are now paid per km of
service performed and documented
automatically. Excess delay causes penalty per
km.

• Then an integrated process
• Bus service planning
• Real time GPS Fleet management
• Change recording
• Bus log data recording
• service quality reporting sw
• invoicing
• Experience some 500 buses in Rome

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The system
authority
Server
Server
WS
WS
. . . .
. . . .
router
LAN
router
depot
CDN line
data files
buses
WLAN
GSM/SMS
telecom
(GPRS)
stops
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objectives

• Real time fleet management
• Passenger information
• onboard automatic visual and audio announcements
• at the stops automatic messages, next arrival
  time
• Periodical automatic reporting on service quality
  (actual versus planned), for invoicing purposes

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Arrival time messages at 125 stops are updated
via GSM
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Case study three waste collection in Milan
(some 650 trucks)

• features GPRS communicationEvent driven
  systemoptimization of post-service street
  maintenance

experience two years
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The PATH system improving service performance
GPS
comparison
Service, planning
Service, actual
GPRS Front end
GPRS data, voice
Onboard systems for 600 vehicles (HTTP clients)
SUN Solaris Enterprise 420R
HP Netserver

• History data (XML compressed files)
• Localisation, dead reckoning
• Vehicle parameters, alarms
• Service data (begin/end, where, when, ..)
• Operators data (badge)
• Findouts log (driver entered events)

GIS, map matching, service reconstr.
RDBM server
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The onboard system
Fixed part Vehicle identification
device. Antennas, cables.

• Removable part
• Integrated PC/driver terminal.
• Can be mounted on any vehicle self
  reconfiguration.
• Can be quickly substituted to grant system
  availability.

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A possibility urban integrated management of
transport service

• A city is a unique system
• the central administration can be willing to
  optimise transport services to
• Reduce expenses reducing wasted km
• Reduce environmental impact
• Hence, a centralised service centre and an open,
  scalable architecture. Services
• Public transport
• Garbage collection
• Freight services
• Emergency services