Bergamo 2.

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[Traffic and Parking Management in Bergamo]

Paolo Pesenti p.pesenti@studenti.unibg

Traffic Negative Effects

Italy is the country with the highest numebr of cars per person (0.6) excluding Luxemburg and this condition inevitably create problems

Traffic jams Pollution Waste of time Stressed citizens Productivity reduction External costs Long cruising for parking

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Bergamo Situation
In Bergamo there is an extensive use of car because the alternatives are unattractive

Public transports and cycling do not receive the attention they should deserve

Even if according to some surveys (ISFORT) citizens will be willing to use public transports for the same travel time

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Bergamo Situation
The Bergamos situation is not a negative exception in Italy, but it is the common state of art in all the country. Italy is in backwardness conditions respect to the north European countries in terms of efficient and eco-friendly transports.

poor Government investments

No innovative and sustainable solutions for transports

Car is an hardly replaceable key element of our city

INCREASING TRAFFIC
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Two ways to solve the problem

To solve this problem there are 2 solutions: the development of alternative and efficient mean of transports (private or public) or a proper implementation of a traffic management system

Alternative and efficient means of trasport

Traffic Management System

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Traffic Management
In dense urban areas, traditional construction of new capacity is cost-prohibitive and often physically impossible

Bergamo has no a lot of opportunities to increase his capacity and physical infrastructures

The current crisis of mobility can be solved with efficient urban planning and new technologies applied to traffic management
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Bergamo Traffic Management

Long queue and paralyzed traffic in Bergamo and the surrounded area during work days (Bergamo, Milan, Brescia) Poor system of traffic management : .Traffic data from existing solutions are highly inaccurate. .No vehicle detection monitors installed . Monitoring traffic flow from closed circuit television videos (unreliable and time-consuming task)

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What does Bergamo need?

Real time info

. ICT technologies such as microcontrollers and sensor . Informaton received on Pc or apps for smartphones . inhabitants can be active participants, enhancing the quality of the traffic management

Advantages for inhabitants and authorities

Intelligente use of infrastructures

Citizens distributed and better decisions

Prediction from hystorical data

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Parking
Between 8% and 74% of traffic in congested downtown areas is caused by people cruising for parking, spending between 3.5 and 14 minutes searching for a space each time they park

Bergamo limits: . A lot of parking in narrow streets. . No wide parking spaces . No uniforme management of private and public parking areas

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[Smart mobility]

Thank you for your attention

University of Bergamo

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