European Bus System of the Future Project UITP’s Proposal for the

7th EU Framework Program

BSF-I-DAP-005-03

Ezio CastagnaChairman of the Bus Committee

25 February 2008

The First Steps:-

The High Level Group for a Sound Future for the Bus Business

And

The “European Bus of the Future” Initiative:

A catalogue with almost 100 functional specifications

Proposal full title: European Bus System of the FutureProposal acronym: EBSF

Date of submission: 5 June 2007Type of funding scheme: Collaborative Project

Type of collaborative project: Large Scale Integrating ProjectsWork programme topics addressed: SST.7.3.2.1 High Quality Public Transport

Partners Chart

# Bus Manufacturers / Bus Integrators 5

# Bus Operators 10 # (National) PT Associations (UITP, VDV, ASSTRA, UTP, KNV) 5

# Consultancies, Agencies, Universities 15

# Organising Authorities 4

# Suppliers 8

# Partners Overall 47

Total Budget approx. 30 Mio€

List of Partners

No Short Name Country No Short Name Country

1 UITP Belgium 27 RATB Romania

2 DAPP Italy 28 SCANIA Sweden

3 ACTIA France 30 INRETS France

4 INIT Germany 31 SRWT Belgium

5 ASSTRA Italy 32 DIGIGROUP Italy

6 BERENDS Germany 33 VTAB Sweden

7 BKV Hungary 34 TRAMBUS Italy

9 CERTU France 35 VDV Germany

10 CHALMERS Sweden 36 ATM Italy

11 UTP France 37 VOLVO Sweden

12 CRTM Spain 38 UNIROME3 Italy

14 EVOBUS Germany 39 BHVBUS Germany

15 FRAUNHOFER Germany 40 EUROLUM France

16 TRANSYT Spain 41 DITS Italy

17 HUEB Germany 42 INEO France

18 IRISBUS IVECO France 43 PILOTFISH Sweden

19 FIT Italy 44 TIS.PT Portugal

20 HPTS Sweden 45 CEIT Sweden

21 NMCU France 46 CRF Italy

22 NEOMAN Germany 47 KNV Netherlands

23 UNEW England 49 VULTRON Hungary

24 PE Germany 50 TEKIA Spain

25 RATP France 51 SYTRAL France

26 ATV Italy

Concept

The project is conceived as a driver to increase the attractiveness of the bus systems in urban areas (….).

This can happen only by applying a comprehensive system approach, which will be developed into

the EBSF project, looking at the vehicle, the infrastructure and the operation in an integrated

way.

Focus

The project focuses on the bus system in urban and suburban areas. For this reason all the features of the

traditional bus services will be examined and developed in conjunction with the relationships between itself and the

other modes of transport …

Intermodality and co/modality is a key area of attention, special efforts are furthermore scoped towards negative

perception of bus services (also by potential users) as well as material- as sub/conscious barriers.

Overcome state of the art

The above graph shows the history of the bus lines and their continuous improvement of the quality of lines, as they are perceived by either the passengers, or the operator, or the city.

Project Objectives

The development of an Innovative high quality bus system – combining together, in an integrated way, innovation into vehicle,

infrastructure and operation domains. This has to come into a vision, acknowledged and recognised

by all European cities

Project Objectives

A Breakthrough design of vehicles, infrastructures and operations emphasising on

a system approach – all the subsystems and components shall feature new design and

architectural elements, designed to fit together, with proper interfacing, capable to create

synergies, so that the value of the overall solution is much higher than the simple addition of each

part’s value

Project Objectives

Maintain or improving the competitive position of the European bus manufacturers and operators – by promoting a new concept

branded “the European Bus System”, competing with international solutions developed in North

and Latin America, Far East, and China.

Project structuredivided into 5 parts

SP1-User Needs, Classification, KPIs and System Approach to the EU Bus System.

Synthesis of Requirements and System Architecture

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SP2Vehicle Implementation of the EU Bus System.

Development and Implementation

SP3Bus System in the urban environment

(Infrastructure and operation).Development and

implementation

SP4-Validate, Evaluate, Disseminate, and Exploit

SP1-User Needs, Classification, KPIs and System Approach to the EU Bus System.

Synthesis of Requirements and System Architecture

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SP2Vehicle Implementation of the EU Bus System.

Development and Implementation

SP3Bus System in the urban environment

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implementation

SP4-Validate, Evaluate, Disseminate, and ExploitSP4-Validate, Evaluate, Disseminate, and Exploit

The project will assess the degree of accomplishment of the objectives by means of use cases, which are proofs of concepts applied to real cities, where the performance of the Bus System of the Future will be compared with the status quo.

Show cases

Site Leader AssociatedManufacturer

Deliverables(Vehicular)

Deliverables(System and Infrastructure)

RomeParisVerona

Trambus IRISBUS

•Internal lay out•Modularity•Drivers place•On board communications•CNG Engine

•Remote maintenance•Predictive diagnosis•Depots organisation•Optimisation of vehicles availability rate

Bremerhaven

BremerhavenBus EVOBUS

•On board communication architecture•AVMS devices•Passenger information

•Back office AVMS•Passenger information system•Bus shelter “Service Hub”

BudaPest

BKV NEOMAN

•Accessibility•Safety (fire and video)•AC unit Maintenance-free•On board communications

•Back office AVMS•Passenger information•Traffic lights priority

Gothenburg

Vasttrafik VOLVO

•Access (doors management)•Internal flow•Optimised seating•Drivers workplace

•Passenger information•Traffic lights priority•Enhanced bus platforms

Madrid CRTM N.A.•On board communication architecture•Passenger information

•Global intermodality•Connection hubs•Multimodal passenger information•WI FI network

LyonSytral (Operator Authority)

IRISBUS •Optical guidance•Accessibility•Vertical and horizontal docking

RouenEUROLUM on behalf of TCAR (Operator)

IRISBUS•On board communications architecture

•Remote maintenance and ???????•Predictive diagnosis

7 use cases (“demonstrators”)

7 use cases (“demonstrators”)each one with its own flavour

Tele-diagnostics & preventive remote maintenance use case

Telematics use case

Guidance use case

Communication and infotainment usecase

etc.

Key Performance Indicators

The performance will be measured and estimated accordingly with common and widely acknowledged Key Performance Indicators, primarily identified as follows:

Productivity of the system over the whole life-cycle;

Modal share and -shift in terms of passengers volume

External effects (environment, accidents, energy use…)

An instrument will be built ( a KPI calculator) to compute the KPI’s for the European Bus System

To show the link or impact of the superposition of bus-system elements in relation to the KPI

Expected outputdelivery of a message

The way how to package the message and the message is much more important than the content

Unite competence of Europe‘s leading bus industry and give an impulse to the bus sector

Redirect Community‘s finances towards PT

Showing by KPI indicator the performance and service levels of bus systems

Expected output

Which characteristics/properties of a closed system can be applied to a bus system (like with metro-alike systems)?

Not only show the characteristics, but achieve awareness for decision makers, by means of benchmarking outside the sector (,,look outside the traditional engineering thinking’’)

A handbook for European cities (especially medium cized) with EU stamp for the implementation of the European Bus System of the Future

Bus Committee members partner in EBSF

RATP

SRWT-TEC

ATM

RATB

ASSTRA

VDV

Support from other UITP Committees

EU Committee, Guido del Mese

PTVE Committee, Rolf Hedberg

Organising Authorities Committee, Claudio Masi

User Group (short list)

Arriva

AVL Luxemburg

De Lijn

TPG

BVG

STCP

Prague

Wiener Linien

TfL/London Buses

Connexxion

TMB

First group

OASA

Keolis

Carris

SSB

HH

Turkish city

The Next Steps for and during the Implementation of the Project:-

1.- Proposal was delivered on 5 June 2007. Project Leader is UITP, D’Appolonia admin support. Definition of WP Leaders, Deliverables. Costs Forecast.

2.- Assessment of Proposal (EU Comm): “GO”, Contract between UITP and Commission, with the relevant Partner’s Signatures. EU Funding: 50 % (March 2008)

3.- Establishment of a Consortium Agreement between Project Leader and Partners. IP Issues and others. (March, April 2008)

4.- Project Development. Regular Meetings, Intermediate Reports. Testing Use Cases. Yearly Financial Statements.

5.- Evaluation of Use Cases. Dissemination. Public Awareness and Acceptance.

European Bus System of the Future

Thank you for your kind attention!

Presented at the Management Committee of the COST Action – Dublin, February, 2008

The International Association of Public Transport

www.uitp.org