Objective
To contribute to the rationalisation of the use of urban transport with the final aim of diminishing the negative impact on environmental conditions produced by the use of motorized transport means. To do so, efforts are targetted upon a main hinge, which in its turn is an intermediate double objective : the introduction of environmentally friendly transport vehicles and the coherent implementation of measures for a modal change from private cars towards increased use of public and other collective transport.
Within the Centaur project, a global, overall, action strategy is planned, which will allow the realisation of this objective. This is first of all, to improve collective transport by using vehicles that in their own right represent a reduction of energy consumption and pollutant emissions, secondly to bring this into line with the use of innovative equipment and systems for the management of urban mobility (public and private transport) and finally, to achieve the integration of transport and urban land use plans and policies with the energy rationalisation aim.
Innovation is present in the Centaur project at all action levels; First, the demonstration of technology in the urban transport fleet is highlighted :
- new technologies for improved operation, maintenance and energy/emissions management in Collective Transport vehicles.
- vehicles with non-standard power supply : electric systems (bus and taxis) , hybrids with batteries, CNG fuelled, biofuels,... Second, innovative technologies and systems are going to be used for implementing specific cases of new policies. They can be grouped as follows:
- integrated systems for Park & Ride (P & R) or C.T. modal change areas management by using innovative payment means and with real-time information transmission to users and drivers about C.T. services and road congestion.
- centralised tools for traffic and pollution monitoring
- traffic lights macro-regulation and C.T. service priorisation systems
- C.T. vehicle monitoring systems.
- equipment for C.T. service improvement, tariffing and ticketing systems, real-time information demonstrated urban transport management policies for the Centaur cities.
Demonstration of this urban transport operation scheme during 2 years will allow on the one hand, the determination of real benefits - in energy and environmental terms - derived from the use of these innovative systems and equipment and, on the other, the evaluation of their operativity and their interaction with citizens.
In the first case, and through the use of a standardised methodology for all cities and aiming to obtain useful results for evaluating the impact of these systems and equipment in other applications, the following environmental impacts are going to be quantified: - vehicles energy consumption and comparison for application zones
- vehicles pollutant emissions and comparison for application zones : CO2, CO, NOx, HC, SOx, PM
- acoustic pollution
- user and social acceptance of the innovative measures.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology biomaterials biofuels
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08006 Barcelona
Spain
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