IMPULS 2005 – Integrated mobility planning, implementation, management and services for a new multi-company transport system in the region, 2005

Germany

City:

Federal State Brandenburg, north east region

Customer:

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

Runtime:

June 2001–December 2004

Partners in project:

Coordination:

• Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg

Research partners:

• BLIC GmbH
• BMW AG
• DB Regio AG
• Intranetz GmbH
• IVU AG
• GQV GmbH
• Oberhavel-Holding GmbH
• Technologiezentrum für Verkehrstechnik Hennigsdorf GmbH
• T-Systems GmbH
• TU Berlin

Applying transport companies:

• Barnimer Busgesellschaft
• Oberhavel Verkehrsgesellschaft
• Personennahverkehrsgesellschaft Schwedt/Angermünde
• Uckermärkische Verkehrsgesellschaft

Contact:

Petra Jaunich / Gustav Thiesing

Project description:

National joint research project for the design and implementation of an innovative on-demand transport system for rural areas.

The objective of the project was to develop and implement a concept for an on-demand transport system that is integrated into the basic services provided by the transport companies concerned.

A rural area bordering on north-east Berlin was selected as the pilot region.

The design phase produced:

• a transport concept for on-demand transport services which defined the areas and types of service involved
• a concept for the customer interface and the human-machine interface for booking and dispatching of on-demand services by the transport companies, including:

• integration of the on-demand services into the timetable information program of the relevant transport system,
• web booking functionalities for customers,
• manual booking by dispatchers,
• routing, matching of transport requests in order to combine journeys, dispatching of the vehicle fleet
• journey tracking within the dispatching system

• the vehicle equipment and communication concept:

• PDA with GPS mouse and GPRS components in the vehicle with a display showing planned journeys,
• confirmation function,
• transmission of location coordinates and information for the customer;
• a communications server for data communications between the control center and the vehicles

• links between the existing AVM system and the new on-demand services management system, e.g. to ensure connections

In the implementation phase, the concepts developed were realized by means of

• the realization of the on-demand services,
• the installation of the vehicle equipment,
• the introduction of the integrated timetable information system as well as the the routing and dispatching system,
• support for test operations and subsequent optimization.

Scope of services:

• Concept for vehicle equipment on the basis of the requirements from the transport companies and the transport plans
• Agreement of the transport plans between scheduled and on-demand services
• Multi-company concept for ensuring connections between the different services
• Support for the transport companies in introducing and testing the systems

Publication:

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