Sustainable Urban Transport Planning - Tallinn

Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
Methodology put to practice
• Aarne Rentik, PILOT Project Manager
Tallinn Transport Department
• Sylwia Klatka
Managing Director of ConVoco Ltd.
15th of March 2007

Facts about Tallinn
•Population – 398 753; aggl: 550 000
• Area – 159,2 km 2 ; aggl: 43333 km 2
• City Districts – 8; aggl: 24 loc. govern.
• Unemployment rate in Tallinn- 4,2%
• Economic sector: information
technology light, textile and food
industry; service and government sector

Examples of public transport fleet

Building partnerships and managing transfer of know-how
in the fields of:
• clean transport solutions
• integrated transport in cities
Selected projects:
ConVoco Ltd
• BIOGASMAX: Biogas as Vehicle Fuel –
Market Expansion to 2020 Air Quality
• INTRASEA: Inland Transport on Sea Routs
• TELLLUS: Transport & Environment Alliance for Urban
Sustainable Transport
• PILOT: Planning Integrated Local Transport

Current mobility characteristics in Tallinn
- 413 private cars per thousand in Estonia and 478 in 2006;
- Separate lines for busses 6,9 km; for trams 9,6 km
- Pay parking lots in centre:
About 4300; from the 1st of April about 8300
Places in private pay parking lots: about 5600 (out of roads)
Share of pay parking lots in centre – 55%
- Proposals for Park & Ride sites and new dedicated bus lines
(later in presentation)
- The flows of goods from and to 4 ports going through the city
centre. No adequate bypasses (e.g. on west-east direction)
yet.
- Congestions...
- Average speed of PT – 17,4 km/per hour

Location creates directions of urban sprawl

Connecting speeds by cars

Modal split in Tallinn 2006 (number of trips)
Pedestrians/
Cyclists
30%
Cars
39%
Public Transport
31%

Modal split in Tallinn 2006 (Vehiclekm)
•In Tallinn
Pedestrians/
Cyclists
Public 3%
Transport
34%
Cars
63%
•On the border of Tallinn
Public
Transport
19%
Cars
81%

Public transport in Tallinn in 2006
Vehiclekm, thousands
Tram-traffic
11%
Trolley-traffic
22%
Bus-traffic
67%

Sustainable approach to transport
Sustainable transport planning
is not necessarily an issue of big investments
- it’s a way of thinking
Lille, France

Sustainability–needs for paradigm shifts

Creation of image of an active
transport mode?

PILOT: Planning Integrated Local Transport
• PILOT project demonstrates the preparation of
Sustainable Urban Transport Plans (SUTP) in four
European cities: Braila, Evora, Lancaster and Tallinn
• PILOT will proposes tools, guidelines and
recommendations for other European regions and
cities

Sustainable Urban Transport Plan: objectives
• To ensure accessibility
• Reduce the negative impact on citizens
• Reducing negative environmental impacts
• Improving the cost-effectiveness
• Contributing to the enhancement of the
attractiveness and quality of the urban environment
and urban design.

Examples in Tallinn
• Low floor PT
• Improved modal links: integrated planning system
– Public transport centre
• Wi-fi internet connection in school busses
• Smart and flexible ticketing system, e.g. m-Ticketing
• Real-time monitoring system for cross roads
• ICT options
• Land use and transport planning

IT connected with software for building and
optimising traffic schedules – PIKAS
Viru bus terminal
information
system, traffic
light system
Automatic
passenger
counting
system
PT priority
system
Mobile
operators
SMS
DB
INTERNET
Route
planning
tool
WAP
Timetables
Public transport
map on internet
Languages

Another innovative action
Ticketing system
• 1983 – integrated ticketing system
• 2002 – 17 different types of tickets
• 2002 – payment by mobile phone, pilot project
• 2002 – integrated ticket for commuter train and Tallinn
public transport
• 2004 – ID-ticket (virtual ID-card-based payment and control
system) and M-ticket (payment by mobile phone)
• 2005 – 41 different types of tickets
• 2005 – integrated ticketing system withneighbouring
Viimsi municipality

Phone
On-line sales and ticket checks
Mobile
Population Registry
Internet
e-Tickets
Cash
Person must possess and show an
ID-card when buying or verifying a ticket

Priority System with Park&Ride proposals

SUTP Process
• A participatory approach
• A pledge for sustainability
• An integrated approach
• A focus on the achievement of measurable targets
• A move towards cost internalisation
• A circle of policy making and implementation
• 5 Tasks, 10 Missions, plan adoptions and approval,
plan review

OVERVIEV OF A COMPLETE SUTP
PROCESS – TIMING PERSPECTIVE

Process of Pilot project
Figure 5: Indicative SUTP schedule – based on a total duration of 3 years
SUTP phases Duration Period
Overall sustainable development strategy
20 –30 years
horizon
Building a strategic/operational framework 1 year M -12 M 0
Running the SUTP process 2 years M 0 M 24
Status analysis and scenario building
10 Months
M 0
M 10
Vision, objectives, targets
9 Months
M 4
M 12
Action and budget plan
10 Months
M 13
M 22
Assignment of responsibilities & resources
2 Months
M 23
M 24
Monitoring and evaluation mechanism
15 Months
M 6
M 22
Plan adoption and approval 1 Month M 24 M 24
Monitoring and evaluation of
implementation: annual progress
New action and budget plan
annual progress
5 years after
approval

Process of PILOT project in Tallinn (1)
• PILOT – Planning Integrated Local Transport
• SUTP – sustainable urban transport plan for
enhancing or sustain usage of active transport modes
• Round table discussions (PT)
• SWOT for current situation on 17th, 20th and 21th
of Nov. 2006 (PT+ key actors, stakeholders,
NGOs; about 50 participants)
• Overall check of the existing development documents
• Some explanations for preparation of SUTP

Strategic goals based on opinions of experts and
stakeholders (results from SWOT)
• Achievement of agreed modal split by 2035
• Creation of a (land use) development committee with
neighboring municipalities.
• Development and creation of transport and land use
schooling and tuition system
• Development of new PT system with radical
infrastructure innovation actions

Strategic goals based on opinions of experts and
stakeholders (results from SWOT) (2)
• Creation of regionally coherent roads network
(included cycling and pedestrian roads)
• Diminishing the fatal consequences of road
accidents by 50%.
• Diminishing the heavy loaded track transit
through the City Centre
• Stopping the dangerous loads traffic via City
Centre (mainly on rail)
• Human friendly living environment

Process of Pilot project in Tallinn (3)
• Activities -2007-
• Analysis of the existing transport situation in Tallinn.
• Elaborating on the existing modal split and compiling the
targeted one (for 2035)
• Harmonizing and completion the criterias for assessment of
scenarios with Tallinn City representatives from different
departments and with stakeholders.
• Working out the development scenarios of transport
system on basement of expert opinions.

Process of Pilot project in Tallinn (4)
• Cost/benefit analyzes for transport development scenarios.
- Assessment of economical effectiveness
• Decision taking for the most appropriate scenario
• Working out the alternatives for realization of chosen
scenario and carrying out the socio-economical
assessment.
• Elaboration of strategic objectives. Compilation of
integration matrix. Development of describing materials.
• Workshops in April and March with SC, PT+ Key actors; PC
• Final seminar in June

Implementation of new PT system with radical
infrastructure innovation
• CIVITAS II SMILE – CIVITAS - cleaner and better transport in
cities - stands for CIty–VITAlity–Sustainability.
• Towards Sustainable Mobility for people in urban areas (2005-
2009)
• SMILE partners : Malmö, Norwich, Potenza, Suceava, Tallinn
• The public transport vehicles will be equipped with automatic
stop calls and information-signs giving information about the
public transport line.
• The aim is to improve the attractiveness of public transport
system through better passenger information (electronic
displays and equipment for automatic stop-calls) in all vehicles
in the Tallinn public transport fleet

Extension of tram network (2)

Priority system in SMILE

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+48 61 86 30 375
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office@convoco.pl

BIOGASMAX
•The European Biogasmax project creates a network of biogasrelated
demonstrations on the European territory with the aim of
sharing experiences in terms of best practices in managing urban
transportation.
•The research and development projects carried out in the context
of BIOGASMAX are closely tied to
•the following four main fields of technological activities:
•Production of biogas from various types of waste;
•Upgrading of biogas to a high-quality fuel;
•Distribution for transport and injection into natural gas grids;
•Use in vehicles to increase the number of biomethane-fueled
vehicles.

INTRASEA
•INTRASEA was an interregional project developing the
inland waterways in the Baltic Sea region with partners
from Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and
Russia

CIVITAS - TELLUS
•TELLUS has brought together five cities keen to
demonstrate that integrated urban transport policies can
significantly contribute to fighting today’s traffic
problems in Europe:
•Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
•Berlin (Germany)
•Göteborg (Sweden)
•Gdynia (Poland)
•Bucharest (Romania)

Topics to be covered
• Tallinn city
• Sustainable transport projects
• Sustainability
• Current mobility characteristics in Tallinn
• Why active transport modes are
undervalued?
• Existing situation in running SUTP
• Some additional information about innovative
actions

Sustainability
• ...emphasizes the integrated nature of human
activities. Therefore it is a reason for coordinated
planning among different sectors, jurisdictions
and groups
• ...planning is to development what preventive
medicine is to health: it anticipates and manages
problems rather than waiting for crises to develop
• SUTP for ensuring the accessibility offered by the
transport system to all

Sustainability–needs for paradigm shifts
•Growth – doing more,
expanding
•Development – improving,
doing better
•Accessibility – obtaining desired
goods, services and activities
•Mobility – physical movement

Why active transport modes
are undervalued?
• Difficult to measure
• Undercounted in most travel surveys
• Short distances
• Used by disenfranchised population
• Low cost
• “Will take advantage of itself”
• Lack of respect