User needs for a standardised CO2 emission assessment methodology for ITS

1. User needs for a standardised CO2 emission assessment methodology for ITS Dick Mans, Ecorys JolantaRekiel, Ecorys Axel Wolfermann, DLR GerdienKlunder, TNO ITS World Congress, 24 October 2012 Vienna

2. AMITRAN Overview • Amitran: • Assessment Methodologies for ICT in Multimodal Transport from User Behaviour to CO2 reduction • Duration: 30 months • Dates: November 2011 – April 2014 • Budget: 2.6 M€ • Funding: 1.9 M€ • Co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2011-7). • Coordinator: TNO • Contact: Gerdien Klunder (TNO), gerdien.klunder@tno.nl • Website: www.amitran.eu • Partners: • TNO (NL), Ecorys (NL), DLR (GE), PTV (GE), ERTICO (BE), Technalia (SP), Teamnet (Ro) ITS World Congress Vienna

3. AMITRAN Objectives • Develop a CO2 assessment methodology for ICT measures • Includes multimodal passenger and freight transport • chain of effects from user behaviour to CO2 production • Design open interfaces for models and simulation tools • Establish a generic scaling up methodology and database • Translate local effects to the European level • Database publicly available • Validate the methodology • using data available from other projects and studies • Produce an online checklist and a handbook • reference for future projects ITS World Congress Vienna

4. AMITRAN Results • Standardisedmethodology and tools to assess CO2 reductions on European scale • Online checklist and handbook for future projects • Open interfaces for existing models and simulation tools • Generic scaling up methodology • Publicly available database for scaling up local effects ITS World Congress Vienna

5. User needs assessment process deskresearch projectevaluation Stakeholders Stakeholder needs Requirements and use cases workshop questionnaire interviews list of stakeholders stakeholder groups collection of stakeholder needs use cases requirements for Amitran SAC Amitran Forum WP 3-7 WP 3-6 ITS World Congress Vienna

6. Stakeholder groups Application Certification and standardisation Research and consulting Standardisation and supervision ITS Developers ITS network organisations GNSS providers Public Authorities Vehicle manufacturers Insurance companies Infrastructure operators ITS service providers ITS end users Environmental organisation Requiring use Influenced by results ITS World Congress Vienna

7. User needs assessment topics ITS World Congress Vienna

8. Identification of user needs (1) Workshop • 18 participants, divided into 3 groups • Discussed about five assessment topics Questionnaire • Over 300 questionnaires sent • Received 62 completed questionnaires • Main respondents: • Public authorities • ITS developers • Research & consulting • Others • Collect quantitative information ITS World Congress Vienna

9. Identification of user needs (2) Interviews • 13 interviews held • Stakeholders: • Public authorities, • ITS manufacturers & developers, • Vehicle manufacturing, • ITS users, • Research and consulting, • ITS network organizations, • Others • Qualitative information collection • In-depth discussion ITS World Congress Vienna

10. Conclusions on user needs (1) • Standardisedand accepted CO2 assessment methodology • Emphasis on dissemination, involve major players, etc • Prove merits of Amitran in validation and raise acceptance • Broad scope concerning geographical scale and transport modes • Consider in System assessment and Framework development • Particular attention to cooperative systems and intermodality • Consider in System assessment and Framework development • Transparent and flexible interfaces to support best use of available and future models used for the assessment • Consider in Interface development ITS World Congress Vienna

11. Conclusions on user needs (2) • Consideration of the achievable accuracy of models and possible gaps in the assessment due to insufficient assessment tools. • From the Framework the models to be considered and interfaces between them will be derived. • During this stage modeling challenges have to be recognized and addressed • Addressing different stakeholder needs in a dedicated manner. • Handbook needs to be designed aiming at different users • Framework needs to be adaptable to different requirements • Output has to be understandable for all stakeholders ITS World Congress Vienna

12. Conclusions on user needs (3) • Seizing opportunities from secondary output (e.g. traffic quality) • Intermediate steps in system assessment might be used to judge traffic quality or other aspects. This will make Amitran more attractive, especially for the logistic sector • Providing information for areas where no sufficient data is available (scaling-up) • If possible scaling up should provide support for users in countries or fields with no sufficient data for calibration or validation of models is available • Benchmarks or ways to transfer data from other countries should be indicated ITS World Congress Vienna

13. Use cases • four basic use cases: • national authorities(large scale) • local authorities (small scale) • logistics (freight) • research and consulting (innovative systems) • cover • most relevant stakeholder groups • passenger and freight transport, innovative ITS • urban, regional and national level • elaboration is work in progress ITS World Congress Vienna

14. Current status Amitran project Work done in first year of the project: • User needs: done • Analysis and structuring of ITS impacts: done • Assessment model framework and architecture: • Model requirements & scaling up DB design ready • Impact assessment methodology validation: • First version Validation Plan ready • Dissemination, liaison and exploitation: • On going ITS World Congress Vienna

15. Outlook Amitran project Work to be done in next 1,5 years of the project: • Assessment model framework and architecture: • Finalise framework model • Data collection for scaling up DB • Open Interface developments • Develop interfaces • Impact assessment methodology validation: • Validation • Dissemination, liaison and exploitation: • On going • Produce handbook and guidelines ITS World Congress Vienna