Ex-ante evaluation of nine cybernetic transport systems

Abstract

This work presents the results of the ex-ante evaluation of CyberMove project. CyberMove is an R&D project carried on by a consortium of 17 partners from Europe, Switzerland and Israel and co-funded by the European commission. The main goal of CyberMove is to demonstrate the effectiveness of cybernetic transport systems (CTSs) in solving city mobility problems, proving that they have now reached high levels of reliability, safety and user friendliness. CyberMove evaluation is organized in three phases: initial, ex-ante and ex-post. This paper deals with the results of the ex-ante evaluation phase. It reports the first assessment results of the designed CTSs. The main findings of the sites taking part to CyberMove evaluations are the following: (1) users (both actual and potential) like CTSs. They are easy but their performances are perceived to be low. (2) CTS performances are extremely good. Wherever CTSs are compared to conventional public transport systems they always provide better travel and waiting times and therefore attract more users. (3) Although CTSs are better than conventional PT systems, private cars are still more attractive and an integrated transport policy has been adopted to make CTSs profitable.