Get the passengers on board!

1. Get the passengers on board! Evaluation of urban and suburban public transportation system Zsolt Zábrádi Terra Studio Ltd. 2013. 04. 24.

2. Content of the presentation • Object and method of the evaluation • Types of evaluated projects • Conclusions: • Minor role • Development of project preparation • Current approach of projects • Proposals: • Requirements for the new projects • OPs and tenders • Suggested fields of supportation • Other proposals • Best practice – city of Szeged: • Strategic thinking • Projects and its results

3. Objects and methodof the evaluation • Objects: • Period of 2004-2013 • Scope: projects contain all of the development components of the public transportation system, for example: • Preparation (planning, licences), • Development of infrastructure (track, stops, P+R, B+R), • Procurement of vehicles, • ITS (traffic control, information for passangers, ticket control). • Methods: • Monitoring of the strategic documents, • Analysis of the database of projects, • Interviews (both side: supporting and supported), • Monitoring on the spot (4 regions).

4. Types of the evaluated projects • Project targeting directly on the development of public transportation system: • Development of urban and suburban road system • Bus stops, bus lanes • Development of urban railway and tram systems • Tram- and trolley/electric bus lanes, stops, • Procurement of vehicles, • Development of suburban railway systems • Renewal of main lines (track, signalling equipment, stations, P+R), not directly suburban projects • Directly in suburban regions • ITS (intelligent transport systems) • Central traffic management, preferation of public transportation, • Information for passengers. • Projects with other focus, but containing components of public transportation system • Integrated urban development, • Road reconstruction(bus stops).

5. The urban-suburban public transportation system plays less role in transport development Financial support contracted between 2004-2013 (billion HUF) NFÜ Térképtér, 2013. 04. 11.

6. The role of time Only a few project preparations finished between 2004-2006. From 2007 preparations consumed a lot of time, the prepared projects started too late Especially the priorityprojects were delayed: the realisation was delayed, therefore there is currently a pressure for payments at the end of the period. The role of the professional quality assurance decreased. There was not enough time for social consultation of the projects.

7. Selection of the best projects • The selection procedure of priority projects improved. • More selection phases, and feedback for the applicants. • But the selection criteria system should be reinforced: • On strategic grounds, based on NTS (National Trasport Strategy). • Inclusion of the local governments in the selection procedure of the proposed priority projects. • Support to meet the minimum requirements for services.

8. The general approach of current projects • Transport developments have been treated as atarget, not as amean so far. • The short term project approach caused problems in the financial feasibility: • Because of the pursuit of the even higher support amount: • overestimating the real transportation needs, enlarging investments (therefore: increased operating costs) • and decreasing of incomes (projects without economic functions) • Results in a maximum financing rate.

9. Requirements for the new projects: sustainability and efficiency • Financial and environmental sustainability and efficiency: • Environmental sustainability: focusing on a zero emission • Financial sustainability: • Because of decreasing the resources, the most effective projects should be targeted: • 1. meet minimum requirements of services, • 2. above this limit support the most effective projects. • Minimum investments instead of the investment approach at any cost. • Preferance of the development of services with more soft components (raising awareness of the potential passengers and the staff, too)

10. Requirements for the new projects: focus on passengers • Focus on passengers: • Cover the total travel-chain • Integrated development projects: • Manage the travel and urban development projects together, • Provide the interchanges between the transport modes • Integrate the public transport firms • make proposals for setting up the effective institutional background in NTS (eg. common local fares). • Enforcement of the service-character: • Aims: attract car-users to use public transport and keep current passengers • „Marketing” public transport: • projects must contain an awarness raising component.

11. Proposals • Operational Programme • Single transport OP, • with territorial priority (urban, suburban, region, national, international) • Calls for tender • Transparent, stable system in mid-term • Clearing the terms, specifications at the beginning of the period • Unchanged terms • Support the procurement of vehicles, modernization of ticket controll, marketing.

12. Procurement of vehicles Budapest: 37 trams Budapest: 27 trolleybuses Budapest: 15 subway trains Miskolc: 31 trams Debrecen: 18 trams Szeged: 9 trams Szeged: 10 trolleybuses

13. Proposals 2 • Improve the regulation of new areas: • Common attributes: integrated things, therefore the traditional modal approach could not treat them, eg.: • intermodal interchanges (modal integration), • tramtrain (spatial and modal integration). • Improve the monitoring system: • Better follow-up of the implementation of the infrastructural investments, • Ensure sufficient number of monitoring experts, • Ensure support for monitoring tasks for the beneficiaries after the project ends. • Improve the management of projects: • Develope the project management skills of the beneficiaries, eg. share best practices.

14. Best practice – example of city of Szeged Integrated, strategic way of thinking Applied instruments Strategic aims Other types of project elements could be linked to transportation projects Other types of projects could contain transport elements if it is possible and necessary This is how to increase the popularity of public transport Supporting zero emission transport modes Moving towards a sustainable transport system Territorial closing up: equal opportunities for settlements with poorer traffic conditions Schedule discussions, bus stops development (quality of service and security of passengers) Setting up public transport associations No progress so far

15. Projects in Szegeden • Development of tracks: zero emission • 2 projects for construncting and reconstructing tracks of trams and trollybus ways, • joins: traffic management, informations for passengers, bicycle path, road and pavement reconstruction. • Development of terminals: integration • 2 subcenters with terminals in the city, • Safe and comfortable waiting, informations for passengers, rest room for bus drivers, upgrading the cityscape. • Development of bus stops in the suburbs: territorial closing up • 5 projects in 15 settlements, • Bus shelters, cycle storages, speedometers, benches, plants. • Urban development projects: integration • Biopolis park: transport elements integrated to a mainly R+D project • Integrated urban development: tram track, bicycle paths besides urban renewal.

16. Results in Szeged and its neighbourhood Changes in travelling time in the afternoon between 2005 and 2012 Change of time (mins)

17. Content of the presentation Thank you for your attention! Zsolt Zábrádi Terra Studio Ltd.