TIDE is a 3-year EU project that aims to enhance the adoption of innovative urban transport solutions across Europe. It works with 15 cities to demonstrate new measures and provides tools to analyze measures' impacts and assess their potential for transfer. TIDE developed methodologies for impact assessment and transferability analysis to help cities understand measures' effects and readiness for implementation. It shares knowledge on measures like multimodal pricing, traveler information apps, bus priority, and integrated transit authorities to encourage more widespread adoption of innovation in public transport.

1. Systematic Transfer of Innovative
Solutions for Public Transport: the
TIDE Experience
Website: http://www.tide-innovation.eu/
Twitter: @TIDE_Innovation
LinkedIn Group: Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe

2. Mission Statement
• Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe is a three year FP7 project that
started in September 2012
• Enhance the broad take-up of 15 innovative urban transport and mobility
measures throughout Europe to establish them as mainstream measures

3. Scope of activities
• Create networking opportunities
• Spread knowledge and provide
guidance on 15 inspiring transport
measures
• Develop a wide range of tools to aid
transferability of innovation and impact
analysis
• Work with 15 committed cities to
demonstrate how the actual
implementation of selected innovative
measures can be successfully prepared

4. Relevant TIDE measures

5. Cluster 1: New pricing measures
Milan – WSP Sweden
Cluster 2: Non-motorised transport
San Sebastian – Rupprecht consult
Cluster 3: Advanced network & traffic management to support traveller
information
Reading – Transporty Research Group University of SouthamptonCluster 4: Electric vehicles
Rotterdam – Fraunhofer Institute
Cluster 5: Public transport organisation
BKK Budapest – University of Gdansk
Project coordinator: Polis
Technical coordinator: Rupprecht Consult
Cost-benefit analysis: Wuppertal Institut
Dissemination support: Eurocities

6. Efficient and convenient pricing and charging for
multimodal trips
• Schemes that combine fare and
one-point charging for multimodal
trips.
• For example, park & ride paid with
the public transport ticket.
• In the Netherlands, ‘Mobility Mixx’ is
a scheme where travels can pay
nationwide for public transport,
bicycle hire, park & ride with one
card.

7. Open-access server for applications-based traveller
information
• Growing use of smartphone technologies
• This technology can be used to provide travel information
• Facilitate 3rd party to develop applications to utilise data in open data
server
• Network information: congestion, car park occupancy, incidents,
roadworks, CCTV images, VMS
• Examples: UTMC (UK), Open Traffic
System – OTS (Germany), 5T systems
(Italy)

8. Improving bus punctuality by using bus priority
• Real time bus locations using Automatic vehicle location (AVL)
system
• Varying levels of priority given to late buses
• Improved reliability and regularity (maintain schedule)
• Examples in London, Helsinki, Turin
0 20 40 60 80 100
%of buses receiving priority
Prioritybenefits
Journey time Waiting time Total

9. Inductive charging for public transport
• Inductive charging infrastructure can be used for several types of
vehicles simultaneously: buses, trams and in future cars as well
• Decreased battery size and reduced charging times

10. Creation of public transport management Bodies for
metropolitan areas
• Integrated planning for public transport
should be the responsibility of specialised
bodies which strengthen integration in the
service.
• Authorities could expand their powers
outside city boundaries, i.e. commuter shed
• An important element is revenue sharing
• Transport for London is the model for BKK
– the integrated transport authority of
Budapest.

11. Background:
• Since 2010, still in progress
• Growing number of employees
• Final tuning
• Preparation of BMT (new transport
development strategy with SUMP principles)
Aim of the measure:
• Transparency
• Integrated transport management
• More effective utilization of financial
resources
Creation of public transport management Bodies for
metropolitan areas

12. Marketing research as optimisation tool in public
transport
• Market research is common in most
sectors of the economy, but still
underused in public transport.
• In public transport it can be used to
predict future travel behaviour and
improve the current service.
• In Gdynia, marketing research
provides valuable information for the
optimisation of the supply side of public
transport.

13. Unified Multimodal Transport Model:
• Under development
• Large scale research process
• Expected to be ready in 2015 Q2
Aim of the measure:
• To recognize current and future market
needs
• Qualitative data on transport behaviour
• To improve transport service efficiency
Marketing research as optimisation tool in public
transport

14. Reducing the risk of starting something new

15. Reducing the risk when starting something new
Most European cities want to be innovative, but not all want to be the first to
implement a new measure.
- Financial: will we be able to afford the measure?
- Political: will the measure be accepted, and will citizens vote in favour of it?
- Effectiveness: will the measure solve the problems it is meant to solve?
- Implementation: will we be able to introduce the measure smoothly, without
delays or extra cost?

16. • Refining existing methodologies for
transferability analysis.
• Enhance the understanding of how
to successfully transfer innovative
measures from one city to another.
Transferability – understanding the context conditions
for innovation

17. Transferability methodology
(1) Mission statement/objectives and scoping
(2) Impacts of the measure
(3) Up-scaling/down-scaling need
(4) Main components and sub-components
(5) Level of importance of components
(6) Situation in the adopter city
(7) Conclusions
• A systematic
qualitative
methodology to analyse
the potential
transferability of an
innovative transport
measure from one city to
another
• Handbook for
transferability analysis
in urban transport and
mobility

18. Impact assessment – understanding the intrinsic value
of a measure
• Local authorities need guidance on the costs, benefits and overall impacts of
innovative urban transport measures
• Develop a simplified tool for impact analysis
• Fits a variety of TIDE measures
• Considers quantified and qualitative effects

19. Impact assessment methodology
 The method is based on a combination of Multi-
Criteria Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis
 Its complexity is adaptable to the proposed
measure’s size and data available
 Includes quantified and qualitative effects
 Visualizes the economic, social and
environmental effects of a measure
 Handbook for impact assessment

20. TIDE offers methodologies for cities that want to implement innovative measures.
We answer two questions:
- Is it good for us? (Impact assessment)
- Are we ready? (Transferability assessment)
Apply for the TIDE awards!
Join the TIDE final conference: 15-16 September, Barcelona!

21. Website: http://www.tide-innovation.eu/
Twitter: @TIDE_Innovation
LinkedIn Group: Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe
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