Integrated Mobility Center

The Bucharest - Ilfov Intercommunity Development Association for Public Transport (T.P.B.I.)  was established in October 2017 and is a private legal entity with the status of a public utility. It is formed as an association of all 42 territorial administrative units in the Bucharest - Ilfov region and has the following responsibilities, among others:

• Develops the integrated transport and traffic plan at the regional level for surface public  transport and monitors its implementation;

• Act as contracting authority for all surface public transport services in the region, in line with 1370/2007 Regulation;

• Ensures fare integration and the introduction of modern e-ticketing systems;

• Ensures transport monitoring;

• Introducing and contracting new surface public transport service – metropolitan rail service

• Coordinate the SUMP implementation;

• Elaborates the Public Transport Development Strategy of the Bucharest – Ilfov area.

Currently, the processes at the level of the T.P.B.I. and the relationship with the operators are not sufficiently digitized to create an integrated flow of data and adequate decision support for real-time management of public transport. The existing equipment and technologies of the public transport systems (both at the T.P.B.I. level and the operators level) fail to provide the basic facilities for efficient management of public transport as well as commercial costs and revenues. The collection and analysis of datas in the Bucharest - Ilfov region are only partially done, in a non-integrated manner, without the real possibility of analysis due to either the lack of access to this data or the data's quality and volume.

The proposed investment is a component of the project "Smart & Green Mobility Integrated ITS System for the Bucharest-Ilfov Region". This strategic project was initiated at the level of the TPBI and aims to digitalize the public transport service in the region, to open the data, focusing on public transport management systems, traffic management, and passenger information systems. The objective is to establish an Integrated Mobility Center that ensures the electronic collection of public transport and mobility data from all sources and IT systems, manage this data  in order to obtain coherent, comprehensive, and integrated information to assist decision-making for optimizing public transport and making investments, including monitoring the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP). Areas such as traffic flow management, prioritization/monitoring of public transport, road safety enhancement, use of IT tools for enforcement, as well as fare policy, are just a few examples where decision-making is supported by using data collected in this Mobility Center. Within this Integrated Mobility Center, all data generated by relevant activities of operators with contracts for public services/delegated management with the contracting authority - T.P.B.I., must be brought together on an open data common IT platform. Obtaining accurate, comprehensive, and objective data regarding these activities in real-time information, operational reports, and predefined periodic reports is essential for both internal management of the operators and monitoring by T.P.B.I. for the contracted services' achievement. The only technical way to achieve these objectives is through general computerization in the form of an integrated IT system.

The expectations of the Integrated Mobility Center aim to reduce existing economic imbalances, stimulate balanced development, and accelerate the catch-up process in bringing public transport to European standards. It aims to align governmental sector policies within the influence area by promoting initiatives and leveraging local resources to improve the quality and attractiveness of public transport. The overall focus is to better meet the mobility needs of the population, thus discouraging the use of personal vehicles, which will have significant impacts on reducing pollution and increasing energy efficiency in transport, leading to positive effects on the environment and the quality of life for citizens.

In that sense, we are looking for Transfer Partners that could be interested in replicating the results obtained in our Project or intend to include innovative technologies in data management . We are looking for a city that has a similar strategic objective or can share their experiences in integrated intelligent transport systems and opening data for public and economy.

Interested cities are asked to contact us at the following e-mail address: cristina.nejloveanu@tpbi.ro