| Objectives / Innovative Aspects |
To produce a waterborne traffic management decision support system for decision makers within the City administration. The DSS will have an interface that permits access in a hierarchical manner. The municipal police will have access to all information while other targeted users, e.g., goods transport firms will have access to information useful for route planning. Statistics concerning boat traffic circulation and its impacts will be available to public users.
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| The Measure |
The work involves:
1. Analysis of the needs of potential users and stakeholders and design of interface.
2. Standardization of the typologies and methodology for traffic data collection.
3. Collection and parameterization of the data necessary to estimate indirect impacts of traffic changes on quality of life and on the physical integrity of the city, including noise produced by various boat types at various speeds, wake heights and pressures produced by various boat types at various speeds, turbulence produced by various boat types at specific locations in the canal network and deliveries made to each island on typical weekdays.
4. Management of permanent and temporary signage and other forms of information pertaining to permanent or temporary changes to traffic regulations or conditions.
5. Plan for the integration of the existing traffic models for the city and the lagoon into a single system.
6. Creation of the institutional agreements and bureaucratic protocols needed for the integration with administrative systems that manage activities that affect traffic.
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| Implementation Status |
1. System design and standardization concluded.
2. Planning of final project and standardization of typologies and methodologies.
3. Test of automated equipment concluded.
4. Impact data collected.
5. Dissemination of traffic information.
6. Plan for integration of existing traffic models.
7. Existing related system analyzed.
8. Administrative protocol for sustainable updates designed.
9. Data exchange formats for automatic updates defined.
10. Verification of integration
11. Evaluation of model concluded.
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| Results |
A decision support system for the management and control of boat traffic circulation especially at congested and vulnerable points will:
help decision-makers deal with ordinary and extra-ordinary situations
reduce congestion caused by inadequate management of unusual situations
mitigate or eliminate negative impacts caused by boat traffic
reduce the interference of parked boats on traffic flows;
improve the quality of life of Venetian citizens;
protect the physical integrity of the historical city of Venice;
provide up-to-date information to decision makers for the planning of measures aimed at controlling boat traffic and reducing wake and noise pollution.
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| Contact |
Alberto Gallo |
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Last update: 08-01-2009
Measure completed |
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