Welcome to Newcastle – Newcastle Connected Corridor Lauren Shaw - Newcastle City Council Alistair Baldwin- Newcastle City Council

The City of Newcastle: Current Facts and Figures £7.6bn GVA and HQ of the £6bn Sage Group 300,000 people living here Including 50,000 students 1.09 billion vehicle miles per year along with 40 million bus journeys 20 million Metro journeys 8 million entries/exits at Newcastle Central Station 2nd busiest airport in the north of England – 5 million people

Newcastle – our future vision Aspiration to be one of the cleanest, greenest and most innovative cities in Northern Europe By 2031 21,000 new homes (5,000 already with permission) New Metro fleet by 2023 & HS2 trains serving Newcastle by 2033 Commitment to improving & transforming the everyday journeys people make by all modes of transport Pursuing evidence-based policy with strong evaluation and partnerships with academia and industry What have we done?

John Dobson Street (very) Before Before After

Background – Why is Newcastle interested in (C)-ITS Air Quality - Parts of Newcastle and surrounding areas modelled as breaching EU limit values for NO2 Congestion & Road Safety - Declining traffic speeds in the morning peak (6.5% decrease in the last three years) and increasing delays to bus services Economic Growth and Innovation – Positioning Newcastle as a testbed City with an Urban Observatory Accessibility, Sustainability and Equity – Newcastle one of 8 UK cities to be named a Cycling Ambition City by DfT and a long-term goal to increase active travel and travel by public transport Asset Management and Value for Money – Knowledge that major upgrades are expensive, need to gain maximum use from current assets

Air Quality – NO2 exceedance in 2021 New housing sites and junction improvements

Newcastle’s Perspective What can C-ITS do for our city? Smoother traffic flow Better network management Air Quality improvements Journey time reliability Improved user experience Safety benefits Economic benefits

Compass 4D – Chillingham Road EU funded project between 2013 – 2016 Equipped 21 junctions with Road Side Units and 11 North East Ambulance Service non-emergency patient transfer vehicles with OBUs Energy Efficient Intersection Service (EEIS) Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) Green priority Idling support Achieved ~3.2% fuel efficiency saving (real- world data) / 5-9% (modelled)

Compass 4D Lessons Learned Availability and volume of data User Acceptance and Buy-In Procurement & Lead Times Legal Agreements & Testing Schedules Compatibility and Interoperability

C-ITS Smart Corridor– Gosforth Corridor DfT funded project 2016 - 2018 Equips 18 junctions on Great North Road with Road Side Units and 35 ARRIVA express buses Use cases: Energy Efficient Intersection Service (EEIS) Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) Green priority Idling support Plus, additional air quality monitoring and modelling (provided by Newcastle Urban Observatory) Upgraded RSUs, OBUs, and HMIs Greater focus on subjective evaluation of drivers’ usability/ acceptance Road Hazard Warning & Road Works warning Vulnerable Road Users TMC Cloud Hosted Open Data Platform

CMobILE Project Accelerating C-ITS Mobility Innovation and depLoyment in Europe EU H2020 37 partners 42 months (2017-20) 12.5m Euros Pilot sites: Barcelona; Bilbao; Bordeaux; Copenhagen; Newcastle; North Brabant; Thessaloniki; Vigo Emphasis on stakeholder partnerships and Importance of demonstrating sustainable business models and evaluation – C-ITS will have to stand on its own feet

Experience of the Connected Corridor (1) Some lessons from Compass4D learned: Involvement of bus drivers in HMI design Data collection plan and detailed baselining undertaken for air quality, fuel consumption Procurement still challenging – Not always the fault of the market! Decided to procure RSUs alone And then combined procurement of HMI and OBUs (subcontract) Some unexpected elements cause greater issues than expected – Vulnerable Road Users

Experience of the Connected Corridor (2) Continuing challenges with interoperability of OBUs and RSUs, emphasises the requirement for agreed interpretation of standards and interfaces Technical sort-of specifics: Ensuring the accuracy of MAPs Ensure there is a correct OBU vehicle configuration! Challenges of remote access Requires continued flexibility of partners and willingness to go above and beyond contracted terms Shows the need for future deployments to have a clear System Integrator role