1. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 The Genoa situation Vito M. CONTURSI

2. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 Population: 650.000 Municipality Area: 240 kmq Built up Area: 73 kmq Density: 8904 inhab/kmq Road network:1402 km PT network: 903 km City of Genoa

3. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 Transport demand management Pollution reduction Improvement in the land use National and european projects: Press Europrice Progress Europrice2 Sutra Moses Goods distribution Bus on demand Genoa goals

4. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 The area pricing Area pricing Surface: ~ 1 % Population: ~ 4 % Parking lots: ~ 5 %

5. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002

6. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002

7. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002

8. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002

9. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 Traffic divider OCR Dectectors Optical coverage Detectors PLAN VIEW SIDE VIEW The system can: manage white lists up to 200.000 plates manage, in white list, italian and european plates have a recognition time less than 2 seconds  1800 veic/h per lane record, at local level, 25000 images Tolling technology

10. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 Full-scale scheme: real people & real money Small group of volunteers due to Technical reasons Political reasons

11. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 State of the art and current activities Technology installation is on-going Alternative methodology for the demo developed (volunteers based) Recruitment activities (closed in november) Demo starts in february 03

12. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002  Increasing knowledge and information, acceptability becomes higher  Generally r.p. is seen as another tax need to move the perception towards a regulation measure Conclusion

13. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 In progress Genoa has to test OCR technology Solution in urban environment: OBE-based technology (?) Tolling procedures [1] Need to link car plate to property (involvement of external actors) [2] Money collection (Legal aspects – Privacy - Lack of specific legislation) Reliability Good solution for enforcement (e.g. RTZ control) but problems with RP Need to check all the plates that will be charged Big amount of work for urban police Main issues:

14. Municipality of Genoa Research and Development of new technologies for Mobility and Transport Europrice final conference – Bruxelles 13 december 2002 Political aspects Strong opposition of many subjects (e.g. shopkeepers) Need to perform a long and capillary dissemination activity, in order to improve knowledge and information Need to have a deep political debate Wide echo on newspapers Press position coming from hostile/negative to neutral The debate is performed at a local level No clear link between political position and support/opposition to r.p.