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ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] Final Meeting and Project Review June 24th 2003, Gdansk WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking - general strategies Ugo Gasparino, Marco Parolin ARPAL (Environmental Protection Agency for the Region Liguria) Omar Jabary Salamanca ESS (Environmental Software & Services) GmbH,
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • The primary objectives are: • The identification, collection, homogenisation of sustainable urban transport indicators for cities and/or urban conglomerates across Europe – in order to describe the scenarios within a larger group of (current situation) cities; • A comparative analysis of the collected sustainable urban transport in a sort of benchmarking exercise; • A first step towards the identification of promising strategies for sustainable urban transportation; • The development and implementation of an interactive web based benchmarking platform; 1. Primary objectives
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • An extended urban transport indicator DB: “WP14 Database” - at the basis of the benchmarking exercise - obtained by collection and homogenization of a number of independent studies. The main data sources were: • SUTRA set of indicators; • UITP Millennium Cities Database for Sustainable Transport; • Auto Oil II Programme(“Generalized Empirical Approach”); • Urban Audit (DG Regional Policy and EUROSTAT); • Citizens' Network Benchmarking Initiative (DG Energy and Transport - DG TREN); Further data extracted by reports by: EMTA Barometer Of Public Transport In The European Metropolitan Areas, Ecosistema Urbano 2003 di LEGAMBIENTE, CITEPA, CERTU, ECMT European Conference of Ministers of Transport… 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • The SUTRA “WP14 – extended database” Final “WP14 Database” – contains: • 85 sustainable transport related indicators • 250 European urban conglomerate Collected data corresponding to a “sparsely populated” matrix (rows indicators; columns urban conglomerates) 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 - database
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • The SUTRA “WP14 – extended database” Final “WP14 Database” – contains: • 85 sustainable transport related indicators • 250 European urban conglomerate Collected data corresponding to a “sparsely populated” matrix (rows indicators; columns urban conglomerates) Are the collected data sufficiently homogeneous? Are the collected data statistically significant? Is any benchmarking exercise feasible? 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 - database
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance Car Ownership
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance Modal split
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance Population Density
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results GDP / capita
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results % households without a car
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results Modal Split: # trips / capita
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results Modal Split: population density dependence
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results Average traffic speed: population density dependence
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • Conclusion and Outlook: • Benchmarking is only as good as the quality and availability of the data it is based on; • Inconsistencies and poor data quality are a key impediment to understanding trends in urban travel patterns and the forces behind the trends. • Several factors are no doubt involved, among them: • (when collected at all) data collection methods, measurements and definitions are often inconsistent within and among cities, • in some countries, private public transport operators are not communicating key data citing privacy rights; 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results 6. Conclusions & Outlook
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • Conclusion and Outlook: • The main idea at the basis of the Work Package is the collection of data available in literature and their critical merging in a unique database of demographic, economic, environmental and transport indicators at urban level. The data collection process was limited to European data on the scale of urban conglomerate; • Having no access to the data collection procedure, a “post-analysis” of the “robustness” and statistical significance of the merged data was undertaken • The benchmarking exercise shows that certain basic relationships either exist or do not exist between key variables (within the accuracy and statistical significance of the available data, of course); 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results 6. Conclusions & Outlook
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • Conclusion and Outlook: With the outlook and the aim of: • potentially increasing the quantity and quality of the available data by making them available to potential end-user, in the hope of triggering a positive feed-back, • make the collected data available to eventually interested external users allowing a friendly Internet interface implementing some basic utilities as ranking and graphical interface, A web interface to the “SUTRA WP14 database” have been developed and made available via Internet. 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results 6. Conclusions & Outlook
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • The MAPTOOL utility 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results 6. Conclusions & Outlook 7. Web Interface
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • The MAPTOOL utility 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results 6. Conclusions & Outlook 7. Web Interface
ARPAL Fifth framework programme of the European Community Environment and sustainable development SUTRA [ Sustainable Urban TRAnsportation ] WP 14: Cross-comparison and benchmarking • Conclusion and Outlook: With the outlook and the aim of: • potentially increasing the quantity and quality of the available data by making them available to potential end-user, in the hope of triggering a positive feed-back, • make the collected data available to eventually interested external users allowing a friendly Internet interface implementing some basic utilities as ranking and graphical interface, A web interface to the “SUTRA WP14 database” have been developed and made available via Internet. We believe that the presented results could be useful to potential users interested in benchmarking and ranking their data with a significant data set specific to European urban conglomerates. 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 1. Primary objectives 2. Data Sources 3. WP 14 – database 4. Significance 5. Typical Results 6. Conclusions & Outlook