D.1.4 Mapping & Impact Assessment Report

Definitions of Lighthouse and Follower cities, and pertinent characteristics of replication use cases are presented in this deliverable, together with various earlier European efforts for smart and clean mobility and impact assessment, including Tide, Flow, Trilater and SHOW impact assessment approaches. The CIVITAS initiative has provided a fundamental framework for the RECIPROCITY project, and it has been adopted as the source of the guiding principles for impact assessment.
The report presents a summary of the preliminary work on simulation-based assessment of the environmental impact and passenger transport effectiveness performed on two mobility use-cases: ‘’32. Intelligent BRT’’ (Istanbul, TR) and ‘’6. SOftly MObile Tourism Mobility’’ (Alpine Pearls/Werfenweng, AT). The PTV Vissim tool1 was used for simulation. Specifically, CO2 emission and passenger experience parameters of two lines (Avcılar – Zincirlikuyu, Zincirlikuyu – Söğütlüçeşme) of the Istanbul Metropolitan BRT system and three lines of the Werfenweng W3 Shuttle (Werfenweng-Pfarrwerfen-Bischofshofen, Werfenweng-Pfarrwerfen-Werfen and Tenneck-Werfen) were evaluated under various scenarios. For the Intelligent BRT use-case, it is shown that autonomous platooning significantly enhances transport effectiveness, decreasing passenger delays while reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 21%.
For the SOftly Mobile Tourism Mobility use case, it is shown that e-cars and e-bikes improve passenger experience, in terms of reduced waiting times, while also significantly reducing local emissions. An important issue, however, is that indirect emissions from e-vehicles, that is greenhouse gases generated in energy production plants, can reach significant levels, even though not local.