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The Genoa situation

The Genoa situation. Vito M. CONTURSI. City of Genoa. Population: 650.000 Municipality Area: 240 kmq Built up Area: 73 kmq Density: 8904 inhab/kmq Road network: 1402 km PT network: 903 km. National and european projects: Press Europrice Progress

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The Genoa situation

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  1. The Genoa situation Vito M. CONTURSI

  2. City of Genoa Population: 650.000 Municipality Area: 240 kmq Built up Area: 73 kmq Density: 8904 inhab/kmq Road network: 1402 km PT network: 903 km

  3. National and european projects: • Press • Europrice • Progress • Europrice2 • Sutra • Moses • Goods distribution • Bus on demand Genoa goals • Transport demand management • Pollution reduction • Improvement in the land use

  4. The area pricing Area pricing Surface: ~ 1 % Population: ~ 4 % Parking lots: ~ 5 %

  5. PLAN VIEW Traffic divider Detectors OCR SIDE VIEW Optical coverage Dectectors Tolling technology • The system can: • manage white lists up to 200.000 plates • manage, in white list, italian and european plates • have a recognition time less than 2 seconds  1800 veic/h per lane • record, at local level, 25000 images

  6. Full-scale scheme: real people & real money Small group of volunteers Technical reasons due to Political reasons

  7. State of the art and current activities • Technology installation is on-going • Alternative methodology for the demo developed (volunteers based) • Recruitment activities (closed in november) • Demo starts in february 03

  8. Conclusion • Increasing knowledge and information, acceptability becomes higher • Generally r.p. is seen as another taxneed to move the perception towards a regulation measure

  9. Reliability Good solution for enforcement (e.g. RTZ control) but problems with RP Need to check all the plates that will be charged Big amount of work for urban police Tolling procedures [1] Need to link car plate to property (involvement of external actors) [2] Money collection (Legal aspects – Privacy - Lack of specific legislation) In progress Genoa has to test OCR technology Main issues: Solution in urban environment: OBE-based technology (?)

  10. Political aspects • Strong opposition of many subjects (e.g. shopkeepers) • Need to perform a long and capillary dissemination activity, in order to improve knowledge and information • Need to have a deep political debate • Wide echo on newspapers • Press position coming from hostile/negative to neutral No clear link between political position and support/opposition to r.p. The debate is performed at a local level

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