Mika Kulmala - Introduction to ITS in Tampere: Strategy and vision - Mindtrek 2016

Introduction to ITS in Tampere:
Strategy and vision
18.10.2016
Mika Kulmala
City of Tampere

Smart Tampere ecosystem…
ITS Factory…
ITS in Tampere, existing smart mobility systems and services…
New big infrastructure projects, platforms for smart mobility development…
ITS Projects, automated driving…
Other ITS Projects…
Mobility as a Service…
eMobility actions…

• MaaS pre-study and technical
background system study
completed
• Innovative procurement going on
to get a MaaS operator
• Tramway and digitalization
project
• MaaS based solution for transport
services provided by the city on
social grounds
• Many solutions based on open
traffic data
• Novel data sources opened to
help authorities and enable new
services to citizens
• Real-time information system
follows buses with one second
resolution enabling services to
citizens and authorities
• Traffic information systems
• Smart traffic light priorities GPS
based traffic light priorities to
emergency vehicles
• Real-time guidance systems for
parking
• Electic buses (first line 2016)
• Charging stations for electric
vehicles
• Pilot on indoor positioning
• Wifi based mobility analysis
• Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-
to-infrastructure data transfer
(C-ITS) projects and pilots
• Preparing city infrastructure for
automated vehicle pilots, e.g. in
Hervanta next to technical
university
• Aim in future actions is to enable
and provide solutions which
enhance everyday mobility and
improve security

ITS in Tampere
 Tampere region has been active in ITS
 long history with ITS since 90’s
 number of active and innovative companies, mainly
SMEs
 active co-operation with companies, authorities,
research and education
 TRITS-network established in 2006, local co-operation
ITS-forum
 one of the main goals of TRITS was to establish ITS test
field
Setting up an innovation, experimentation and
development environment one of the key projects in
local transport management strategy in 2010.
ITS Factory launch in May 2012

What is ITS Factory?
 ITS Factory is innovation, experimentation
and development environment, where
companies and individual developers can
develop, test and productize Intelligent Traffic
Systems and Solutions in real life with real
users
 Public-Private partnership by Local and state
administration, Education & Research and
private companies (Traffic operators, product
& service companies, traffic information
providers etc.)
 Strong political support
 City of Tampere and other authorities from ITS field
 ITS Factory in National ITS Strategy
 The City Mayor’s Programme – ITS Factory ranked high
 Tampere City Strategy

Strategy - Vision for ITS Factory
by 2017
Towards Smarter Cities
with Intelligent Transport
•Tampere Region is the fore-runner
of intelligent, fluent and safe city
transport
•International-level development
platform for the top experts and
advanced transport stakeholders
•PPP – public-private partnership –
the common operational
environment

Organization
 Advisory Board
 political steering
 chairman Seppo Öörni, Ministry of Transport and
communications
 Finnish Transport Agency, Finnish Transport Safety Agency,
ITS Finland…
 Management Team
 operative management
 Innovation Coordinator
 Communication and Development Forum
 open to all members
 topics: traffic management center, eMobility, INKA-program,
testITS, tram & digitalization, traffic lights, indoor positioning

The Four Basic Building Blocks
Market-driven testing
testITS
Open data & Developers
devITS
Monitoring and Standardisation
monITS
Communication and Marketing
coordITS

ITS Factory test area, testITS
 ITS Test and Innovation Area
functioning in the city in real live
traffic environment
 Attractive platform for businesses to
develop and test Intelligent
Transport Systems and Services
 Utilizes live ITS Systems and
Services that have been launched
and invested in.
 ITS Factory partners have had and
currently have projects and pilots in
Tampere
 EC-funded projects e.g. Drive C2X, TEAM,
Telefot, STREETLIFE, Comosef, Transforming
Transport…

Your App here!
Traffic information
providers
Open data development in ITS
Factory
Standard interfaces to raw data + option to use data
from providers
Raw data feeds
Standard Data Interfaces
Developer Sandbox
SIRI DATEX-II WMS/WFS IFOPT GeoJSON FilesGeoRSSTPEGGTFS Open311
Public
transport
Traffic
flow
Parking Maps FleetWeather
Traffic
infra
3D model Feedback
Crowd-
sourcing
Open data
Open Source
Variable data business models
Variable software business models
re-use
re-use
re-use

ITS Factory open data activities
 Open Traffic Data enables variety of ITS
applications, products and services
 Public Open Data for service providers
 Business driven data for new ecosystem development
 Additionally, data and supportive mechanisms for developers
for business driven projects, development: wiki.itsfactory.fi
for developers: data.itsfactory.fi, dev.itsfactory.fi
Latest data source, real time data
from traffic light controllers

ITS Factory -
Tampere
Open transport data and apps
30+ Apps in application stores
(Android, Apple ja Windows Phone)
200+ Developers or developer teams
>200 development ideas
3000+ App users every day
30000+ App users every month
600000+ Mb data distributed to users every month

Great user feedback of
apps developed in
Tampere
XXXXXXX

Following the Vision…
ITS Factory Roadmap
Showing achievements and the
way forward
•Products, solutions
•Infrastructure
•Data
•Projects
•Facilites

ITS in Tampere, existing smart mobility
systems and services…

Traffic management in Tampere
 Challenges to manage growth in a sustainable way: city
structure and traffic network between two big lakes
 Real time operations are centralized to Finnish Transport
Agency´s new traffic management center
 City of Tampere has also operator in center

Traffic lights in Tampere
 About 175 traffic light intersections in Tampere region
(Tampere & surrounding cities)
 City of Tampere is responsible for operating
 planning, building and maintenance
 Maintenance contract of traffic lights with Tampereen
Vera, local electricity company, owned by City of
Tampere
 New traffic lights central system and data network for
traffic management

 ImFlow - new adaptive traffic light controlling –system in ten
intersections
 Policy based optimization of traffic flows within the existing
infrastructure

 C-ITS GLOSA (Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory) –pilot is in
progress
Remaining
green time
or time to
red
Speed
advice
Mobile app

Priorities to emergency vehicles
GPS-based system, using mobile data
network and communication network
HALI - traffic light priority system for
emergency vehicles

Public Transport Real Time
Information System
 location of buses in every one second
 message displays on streets and in buses

Public Transport Real Time
Information System
 priority system in traffic lights for public transport
 different kind of public transport services

New Priority System for Public
Transport
 New Priority system in traffic lights for public
transport called LIVA 2.0 → the system uses that
new communication network

 real time traffic situation
 variable message signs in roads to city centrum
Traffic information system

28.5.2015 MKu
 Real time situation of free parking places in
parking garages in city centrum
Real time parking guidance -system

 Real time variable guidance –system to situations
when Rantatunneli is closed or partly close →
guidance-system becomes active
 Automatic program changes in traffic lights
Variable guidance –system

 real time parking situation, optical detection, SPOT
Your car -system
Smart parking –systems and
services

VIP – Vehicle Inductive Profile - Travel times
• Measuring real time Travel times in
average, median, max, min, nr of
matches
• based on the inductive loops. No security
issues.
• Open interface-> KPIs transferred in XML
to the 3rd
parties
• Data can be utilized in VMS’s, public web
portals, navigators, traffic designing and
estimations

 number of different sources of data, integration of
information, i.e. traffic volumes, travel times, road
conditions
Real time traffic situation

 information of incidents via open standard interface
Traffic incident management tool

Traffic portal
 Traffic information to private car drivers, cyclists and pedestrians

 vehicles, cycles and public transport passengers
Traffic statistics tool

Innovative procurement of real time
traffic situation
 After the procurement process six pilot-projects
were selected and are now in progress
 In CGI's pilot public transport buses are sensors Internet of
Things (IoT) basis by identifying traffic incidents and road
surface slippery in real time.
 DDS Digital Dispatch Mobisoft project will be produced data
from taxis, both drives observations and FCD. Real time
weather and traffic information based on sensors in vehicles.
 Infotripla´s project goal is to develop and test new traffic
information analysis and distribution methods of FCD
 Innovator Network´s project goal is to provide real time
information parking places in Tampere
 Mattersoft´s project focuses on the production of traffic flow
information. The solution utilizes open data sources and
generate new analyzed data to open interfaces.
 Nodeon project provides a new kind of real-time traffic
information of the Tampere urban and residential areas using
traffic camera recognition technology and public open traffic

New big infrastructure projects,
platforms for smart mobility
development…

 Citytram, 23 stops, 21,7 km
 3D - citymodel
Big projects

 Rantatunneli
 tunnel under city
centrum, 2,3 km
 high quality traffic
management
 opening to traffic
15.11.2016
Big projects

Smart station - Five-star city
centre
 New part of City in City
centrum around railway
station and above rails is
now under planning
 big challenge and possibility
as smart
mobility point of view

ITS projects, automated
driving…
•Project: ”automated tarffic, potential
and impacts in Tampere” is going on…

25.10.16 70
• Urban autotest -project
• Development of a test bed for
autonomous and intelligent
vehicles in urban area
• Follows the existing
automotive and ITS
standards
• Tunnel, intersection and
parking house automation
• To be implemented on 2016-
2017
Parking house
Tunnel
Intersection
Highway
TAMPERE URBAN AREA
Tampere autonomous driving test
site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmyvB9MfvMo

• Open innovation platform
• Hernesaari (Helsinki) – Otaniemi (Espoo) – Hervanta
(Tampere) 2016 - 2018
• Project offers an open ”busline” where companies can
come to test and develop new product and service ideas
needed or enabled by automated transportation
• Common theme is the automatization of urban
transportation and new business opportunities it can open
SOHJOA – automated buses

CityTrack – pilot project of indoor
positioning
• Test site & platform for local
companies to develop new
services
• In the area, positioning works
seamlessly both indoors and
outdoors
The site contains in a dense area
•Railway Station (a mobility hub)
•Parking hall(s)
•Congress Center
•Concert hall(s)
•Shopping & restaurants
•Tourist attractions
•University campus

 projects in Tampere i.e. Drive C2X, Carlink, WiSafeCar,
CoMoSeF, TEAM, Telefot
Cooperative ITS

Examples of Smart mobility
projects,
MoveUs Pilot cities: Madrid, Genoa ja Tampere
 focus on mobility management, new
services, impact of services
Streetlife
 Pilot cities: Berlin, Tampere ja Rovereto
 the goal is in to decrease CO2-emissions with ITS
 in Tampere pilot carried out real time based journey
planner including real time traffic situation i.e. park
and ride
 Gamification, mixed reality

What is MaaS?
 Collecting necessary
transportation services
under a single operator
 A very prominent issue both
nationally and
internationally
 The Ministry of Transport
and Communications Traffic
Lab project and the Finnish
Transport Agency have
drawn significant attention
to MaaS services

MaaS & City of Tampere
 MaaS-projects made in Tampere
• 2014: MaaS, prestudy
• 2015: MaaS, technical capability to enable the MaaS-services in
Tampere
• 2016: Demola-project MaaS Effect
• 2016: Active discussions with market and companies
• 2016: Functional Specification: “MaaS operation and integration with
demand-responsive transport in Tampere”. System Architecture for
MaaS Operation.

Passenger
What can the City of Tampere do to
enable MaaS services?
MOBILITY AS A SERVICE
PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION
EQUIPMENT
TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE
DATAAND
INTERFACES

Strategy for eMobility in Tampere
 eMobility connected nearly to smart mobility
 eMobility strategy consists of three parts:
prestudy, deployment research and action plan
 Strategy has been ready since summer 2014
 city council role in eMobility

Buses switch to electricity
 Electric buses have signicant
potential for cost savings
 Starting the procurement process
of electric buses  scaling out
 Building a charging point 
Scaling out charging
infrastructure
 First line using ebuses will start in
autumn 2016
”Electric buses look good in paper.
They deserve a proper testing in
practice.”
Strengths
•Small energy costs
•No local emissions
•Less noise
•Possibility to use renewable energy
Weaknesses
•Need for investment
•Risks in technology and risk
management

Thank You!
www.itsfactory.fi
mika.kulmala@tampere.fi

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