ATM Metropolitan Transport Authority of Barcelona

1. ATM Metropolitan Transport Authority of Barcelona Main ITS projects (Contribution of ATM in ITS preparation for hearing 1 december) November 27, 2009

2. 2 1 Index • ATM, Metropolitan Transport Authority • Public transport supply, main figures • Main ITS projects • Multi-fleet AVM system • Ticket integration • RFID – Contactless • ITS Challenges from the point of view of ATM and EMTA

3. 3 1 RMB ATM: Metropolitan Transport Authority Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (RMB): 164 municipalities and 4.8 million inhabitants ATM is an inter-administrative consortium whose aim is the coordination of public transport in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona • City of Barcelona: • 100 km2 • 1.6 million inhab

4. 4 1 Public transport supply 2008

5. 5 1 3.- Main ITS projects • Multi-fleet AVM (Authomatic vehicle monitoring) • Ticketing integration • These projects are in constant evolution, from different points of view, • They are listed in the master plan for mobility (PdM), -regional scope- of ATM. (www.atm.cat) • The PdM is to be an instrument to ensure the coordinated development of management strategies of mobility, and proposes a model of sustainable mobility with a cross-discipline that integrates the various disciplines that work on mobility, with the aim of ensuring basic accessibility to all people and help providing equal opportunities to all citizens.

6. To gain efficiency in managing the fleets by the companies and thus promote more integrated passenger information at the metropolitan area, the steps done are: • Since 2001, deployed a multi-fleet AVM (Automatic Vehicle Monitoring) system for the 20+ private medium bus operators active in the area, “filling-the-gap” by enabling smaller operators to acquire and operate systems in an integrated manner. • Processing information from the AVM and other information sources and emitting passenger information on displays inside the buses and others at certain stops. • Integrating information about the location and arrival times of buses from this system and the rest that bigger or other fleets of the metropolitan region are managing • . Intermodality Multi-fleet system Information on Internet Bus-stop panels Resources integral management Localization through GPS communications 4.- Multi-feet AVM system: Main aspects

7. Goals achieved • The implementation of a MULTIFLEET AVM System generates several advantages for the unified system of public transport: • Enables each operator to use the avm system to track its own vehicles as it was a standalone system, with a central platform supplied by ATM with no limitation of buses/companies/geographical area. • Efficient management of global information stalls, upgrades of the system. Synergies. • Transport information based upon WEB-SERVICE technology. Common and global specification. There has been a conceptual split between the providers of information and the integrators (publishers) of information in order to facilitate independence of technology of media.

8. 8 1 5.- Ticket integration: Main aspects • Ticketing integration: deployed in 2001, all operators involved (urban, interurban, multi-modal). • 935M of travels (2008). 253 municipalities • All transport tickets form part of the system. ATM is responsible for pricing and manages the Compensation Chamber (excluded social or free ones) . • Transport tickets valid for all modes and all operators within their geographical validation area. • Price according to frequency and duration of journey, in a zone-based system. • Ticket validation: transfers are not penalized.

9. Goals achieved • Awareness of the citizens of the existence of a single fare system independently of the operator, route or territorial area. Creation of a single image of transport • Absolutely no economic penalization for transfers. • Economic price equivalence between rail and bus and transport of public and private companies. • There is a clearing system made monthly by means of the data of the validations of the tickets and revenues from sales (operators and others) of the whole multi-modal transport system. • Detailed information suitable for planning of transport 9

10. 10 1 6.- RFID/Contactless system “en train de…” • Migration of the current magnetic technology to a RFID/contactless system is a must • Project in definition study, migration of actual magnetic ticketing system and in concordance with further global requirements drawn by the regional Goverment for ATM of Barcelona and the rest of administrations present in the scope. • Deployment envisaged by 2012.

11. Public transport in ATM’s area (own titles and regional ones) Multi-purpose services card (Citizen card) Public transport of other areas Interoperability Coexistence Overall future scenario (to be implemented in stages) The technology opens a variety of possibilities. The ATM project, (which uses the same technology and philosophy as Madrid’s project) by means of the deployment of the public transport application and the security schema, is being designed to make available the interoperability with the public transport of other areas and the coexistence of other services in the card ... (with preference if related to mobility) ... always in a basis of open –standards- compliant protocols

12. 7.- ITS Challenges from the point of view of ATM and EMTA (i) • There is an urgent need for clarification and for raising awareness among decision makers about the objectives that should be pursued from a Transport Authority point o view in an EC scope conext. • There is a needed EC support to ensure compatibility of systems avoiding to discard existing infrastructure each time there is an upgrade of some sort (new services added or geographical scope of usability from local to international and so on...) putting and end to the situation actually driven by technology providers (by industry sector) who too frequently in preventing from any posible connection or compatibility between technologies ensure their short term benefits on very closes markets. • There must be concern about drawing a best practices book, not only related to technology but to which sholud be “the business model”: managing, organizing procedures, legal scope, ...thus preserving citizens from undesired collateral effects.

13. 7.- ITS Challenges from the point of view of ATM and EMTA (ii) • The European Union should give the necessary support to the application of ITS in public transport, in terms of granting STANDARDIZATION of interfaces and architectures now that technology has reached a mature state • Projects’ financial efficiency, interoperability between different fare-based systems and scalability, are some of the benefits. Before us, USA on one side and Asia on the other, are some examples of what should be avoided in Europe in terms of global concepts: Some reasons why: • Right to anonymity and security of personal data • Right to prevent ticketing from payment from “ taxes coming from outside the Transport System”, i.e. commissions to banks and / or telecommunication operators, etc, too frequently not rightly known….