Objectif SMART NETS aims at enabling a significant improvement of the international state-of-the-art in real-time network-wide urban traffic control via application, demonstration, and comparative evaluation of the new-generation control strategy TUC (Traffic-responsive Urban Control). TUC employs advanced automatic control methodologies which may lead to improvements in the order of 40% of journey times as compared to fixed-time settings under saturated traffic conditions where all current signal control strategies are known to perform poorly. Within SMART NETS, TUC will be extended to consider public transport priority measures. The demonstration will be conducted in extended network parts of Southampton, Munich and Chania, and include field-comparisons with the current resident control methods (SCOOT, BALANCE, TASS). A successful completion of SMART NETS would mark a new era in urban traffic control worldwide, with substantial technological and economic impact for European ITS activities.Work description:All current signal control strategies are known to be functionally decentralised and to perform poorly under saturated traffic conditions. TUC is genuinely network-wide and has been conceived to address traffic saturation in a highly efficient and elegant way. TUC is, at the same time, simpler than any other strategy and may be easily applied to any network via implementation of a generic software code, whereby the specifics of each application are incorporated in suitable input files to feed the software code.In a first project phase, TUC's control law will be designed in detail for each application site and will be exhaustively tested via simulation for various scenarios of demand, incidents, device failures etc. In parallel, public transport priority measures will be incorporated in TUC. Then, TUC will be implemented and demonstrated in each of the three cities over seven months, with weekly alternation of TUC and the current resident state-of-the-art signal control strategy (SCOOT, BALANCE, TASS respectively), to enable data collection under all occurring traffic conditions. Finally, the collected data will be used for the evaluation of TUC against the resident strategies. The evaluation will provide conclusive evidence on TUC's capabilities with regard to both quantitative (journey times, saturation levels, fuel consumption, cost-benefit ratio etc.) and qualitative criteria (simplicity, interoperability, user acceptance etc.). The targeted end result is a field-demonstrated breakthrough in terms of efficiency in saturated traffic conditions.Ten cities, five of them Capitals, are included in the project as Followers to form a User Board and to receive privileged information on the achieved results. Further activities will ensure wider dissemination of the project results including both scientific publications and information for city officers, for instance through the POLIS network.Milestones:Main milestones are the design and simulation testing of TUC for the three sites; the inclusion of public transport priority in TUC; the field implementation and verification of the strategy in three sites; the field-demonstration, assessment, and comparative evaluation. Main expected result is the extended and conclusive field evidence of a breakthrough in the area of urban traffic control with targeted reduction of average journey times in the order of 40% under saturated traffic conditions. Champ scientifique natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelssocial sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transportsocial scienceslaw Programme(s) FP5-IST - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on a "User-friendly information society, 1998-2002" Thème(s) 2000-1.5.1 - Intelligent transport infrastructures Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement DEM - Demonstration contracts Coordinateur NAPIER UNIVERSITY Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 129 COLINTON ROAD EH14 1DJ EDINBURGH Royaume-Uni Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (9) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire GEVAS SOFTWARE, SYSTEMENTWICKLUNG UND VERKEHRSINFORMATIK GMBH Allemagne Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse FRANZISKANERSTRASSE 38 81669 MUENCHEN Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée LANDESHAUPTSTADT MUENCHEN, KREISVERWALTUNGSREFERAT Allemagne Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse RUPPERTSTRASSE 19 80313 MUENCHEN Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée MUNICIPALITY OF CHANIA Grèce Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 29 KYDONIAS 73135 CHANIA Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée SIEMENS A.E. ELECTROTECHNICAL PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS Grèce Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse ARTEMIDOS STREET, 8 15110 ATHENS Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée SIEMENS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse SIEMENS HOUSE, OLDBURY RG12 8FZ BRACKNELL Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse CIVIC CENTRE, CIVIC CENTRE ROAD SO14 7PR SOUTHAMPTON Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE Grèce Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse AGIOU MARKOU STR. 73132 CHANIA Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée TRANSVER GMBH Allemagne Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse MAXIMILIANSTRASSE 45 80538 MUENCHEN Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse HIGHFIELD SO17 1BJ SOUTHAMPTON Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée