Improving West Harbour - Old City Harbour mobility flows with smart solutions

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

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Description (EN):

Mobility is growing in Europe. The ferry connection between Helsinki West Harbour and Tallinn Old City Harbour is one of the busiest in the world with over 8 million annual passangers. The North Sea - Baltic TEN T Core corridor meets Scandinavian-Mediterranean TEN T core corridor at Helsinki, thus being a key node in the transport networks of northern Europe. Yet, already the current traffic creates substantial congestion, noise and other negative externalities at both ports and at both cities. There has not been common mobility planning and there are no cross-border ITS solutions. The project provides more fluent integration of different transport modes of this inter-city and cross-border traffic with planning and piloting of ICT-driven solutions, in order to reduce time in transportation for both passengers and cargo. The better flow reduces both time vehicles spend in port areas as well as the fluency of the traffic flow. This will also reduce CO2 emissions and noise. Also, lack of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) has been described as one of main missing links for the North Sea Baltic corridor. Cross-border approach is needed in order ensure end-to-end user-centric experience of the mobility as well as better planning: same or similar tools for the mobility users on both ports, tools for the ferry operators, urban planners, and data. Project contributes directly to the Central Baltic programme indicators R3.3 and R3.1 by piloting smart solutions that will reduce the travel time. The project contributes to these targets also indirectly: by contributing to open data and open source enablers for further innovations, and by mobility planning (SUMP) that further enable and drive towards travel time reduction in the mobility. Project creates also market references for smart port solution provider companies.

Achievements (EN):

FinEst Smart Mobility project - Innovative mobility solutions in a cross-border environment: The ferry connection between Helsinki West Harbour and Tallinn Old City Harbour is one of the busiest in the world with over 8 million annual passengers. Current traffic creates substantial congestion, noise and other negative externalities at both ports and in both cities. FinEst Smart Mobility piloted five ICT solutions in the harbours and adjacent areas, to find solutions for these challenges. The pilots focused on better integration of different transport modes in inner-city and cross-border traffic. The main results of the project: Harbour’s PSO by Infotripla is a real-time information system to monitor traffic in the Helsinki West harbour. The system recommends routes for outbound traffic and sends alerts to the traffic management officials. After project completion, Infotripla has become part of Jätkänsaari Mobility Lab in Helsinki – a large-scale umbrella project where smart mobility solutions are tested and scaled up for further use. FinEst API by Fleetrange is an automated and real-time schedule tracking of ship traffic between Helsinki West Terminal and Tallinn Old City Harbour. The FinEst API combines data from various public open data sources such as the ship’s automatic tracking system data, schedules, ship parameters, historical tracking data and weather observations to provide real-time data about the ship’s departure and arrival. FinEst Mobility by GoSwift is an application targeted towards truck drivers; It sends notifications about the exact time, when to drive to the ferry terminal gates and thus, reduces waiting at the port gates in the harbour. Logistic companies responsible for the trucks in the ferries and Tallink lines have made the platform available for their drivers. The Kyyti app developed by Kyyti Group app aimed to decrease the use of private cars between West Harbour and Vantaa Airport by offering an affordable shared taxi service and public transport route information together with ticket sales. Kyyti combined public transport in the city, intercity buses, car rental & sharing, trains and payments and ticketing under one roof. Despite positive response from involved parties, demand for such service was low. The project results are well-summarised in these short videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVM9vpfFvbA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAOGcFtxz3c Most of the partners in the project used an innovation procurement method. This means that firstly, a procurement was made to gather ideas about smart mobility solutions and mini-pilots were carried out with the selected ideas. Secondly, the results of the mini-pilots were validated, and new ideas were gathered. As a result, 6 pilot ideas were chosen to develop and test the smart and innovative solutions to relieve the traffic load around the harbours. Cooperation of stakeholders also brought some results which were not initially planned in the application but are very valuable outcomes: In terms of public transport, the project enabled the integration of the Finnish Digitransit service into the Estonian peatus.ee service and thus, directly improving travel chain planning over the sea in near future During the project, a possibility to purchase tickets for the Helsinki region public transport from Tallink and Eckerö Lines ferries was created, additionally to the planned results. This helps improve e.g. work-related commute.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R3.3. Transport flows of goods

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main outcome is better management of the mobility flows of goods and people. The pilots directly impact R3.3 and R3.1. Currently peak times measure 30-50 minutes drive time for the first kilometer in out-bound harbour traffic. Pilots reduce the congestion and speed up out-bound traffic by average of 20 minutes per trip. PILOT A: Just-in-time logistics for Heavy Good Vehicles, based on truck parking at the ring-roads and mobile application that directs them to boarding. This reduces the time-in-city with estimate of 5-10 % per truck. This is also a key tool to manage the closure of the truck parking at ports. PILOT B: Smart management out-bound traffic, with dynamic mobility management with signage and integration to navigators and possibly to smart traffic lights. This integrates the unloading traffic to city traffic better, improving also other traffic. PILOT C: Smart Park&Ride for ferry passengers with private cars to increase the use of public transport for the port entry/exit. This includes easy real-time information and ordering of the park&ride and public transport options. This reduces the amount of private cars to the ports by 5%. PILOT D: Smart traffic solution pilot in order to increase modal split of public transport for travelers from Estonia to Helsinki Airport with ferry connection. PILOT E: Feasibility study with a pilot on Tallinn ringroad to improve the management of both commuting and international transit traffic flows with ITS solutions. IN ADDITION TO PILOTS: Integration of cross-border public transport and ferry options into the open source mobility navigator will lead to increased and easier use of public transport for various passenger groups. Tallinn Region Mobility plan indirectly impacts R3.3 and R3.1. It contributes to better management of mobility, and is harmonized with Helsinki Region plan to create cross-border approach needed to ensure the optimization in macro-region level.

Thematic information

Multimodal transport Transport and mobility Improving transport connections

Specific Objective: Improved transport flows of people and goods

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Helsingin kaupunki

Department: City Executive Office, Economic development division

Address: Pohjois-Esplanadi 11-13, PL 1 00099 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hel.fi

Total budget: EUR 700 008.31

ERDF budget: EUR 525 006.23

Tallinna linn

Name: Tallinna linn

Department: Tallinn Transport Department

Address: Vabaduse väljak 10A, 10146 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tallinn.ee

Total budget: EUR 440 000.40

ERDF budget: EUR 374 000.34

MTÜ IKT Demokeskus

Name: MTÜ IKT Demokeskus

Department: Living Lab

Address: ITL, Lõõtsa 6, 11415 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.itl.ee

Total budget: EUR 100 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 85 000.00

Forum Virium Helsinki

Name: Forum Virium Helsinki

Department: N/A

Address: Unioninkatu 24, 180 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.forumvirium.fi

Total budget: EUR 154 219.62

ERDF budget: EUR 115 664.72

Vantaan kaupunki

Name: Vantaan kaupunki

Department: Business Development Services

Address: Asematie 7, 1300 VANTAA, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vantaa.fi

Total budget: EUR 199 900.00

ERDF budget: EUR 149 925.00

Maanteeamet

Name: Maanteeamet

Department: Construction and planning department

Address: Pärnu mnt 463a, 10916 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mnt.ee

Total budget: EUR 228 520.50

ERDF budget: EUR 194 242.42

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Summary

Project name (EN): Improving West Harbour - Old City Harbour mobility flows with smart solutions

Project acronym: FinEstSmartMobility

Project start date: 2016-09-01

Project end date: 2019-08-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 822 648.83

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 443 838.72

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ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 443 838.72.

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Shared rides from West Harbour to Helsinki airport, pilot report by Kyyti Group

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.finestlink.fi/en/finest-smart-mobility/

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

FinEst Smart Mobility Final Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.finestlink.fi/en/finest-smart-mobility/

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-04-01

Languages: en

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FinEst Mobility App – JIT route guidance for truck drivers, pilot report by GoSwift

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.finestlink.fi/en/finest-smart-mobility/

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-02-01

Languages: en

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FinEst API – Ferry traffic prediction data API, pilot report by Fleetrange

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.finestlink.fi/en/finest-smart-mobility/

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-11-01

Languages: en

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