Grant Agreement number: INEA/CEF/TRAN/M 2018/1796634

Action: Cooperative Streets (C-Streets)

Action number: 2018-PT-TM-0099-S

Project leader: IMT – Instituto de Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I.P.

Beginning: 01/01/2019

End: 31/12/2023

Total cost approved: €31,410,086.00

Porto Metropolitan Area: IMPLEMENTING BODY INVESTMENT BUDGET  €300,000.00

Maximum financing approved: €15,705,043.00

Porto Metropolitan Area:  IMPLEMENTING BODY FORESEEN FINANCING  €150,000.00

Project Partners - Implementing Bodies:

• Área Metropolitana do Porto;

• Associação Porto Digital;

• Associação TRANSPORLIS - Associação para a Exploração e Gestão dos Serviços de Informação da Viagens Multimodais da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa;

• ARMIS – Sistemas de informação, Lda;

• BGI - Brisa Gestão de Infraestruturas;

• Brisa Concessão Rodoviária, SA (BCR);

• Câmara Municipal de Cascais;

• Câmara Municipal de Gondomar;

• Câmara Municipal de Lisboa;

• Câmara Municipal de Loulé;

• Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos;

• Câmara Municipal de Santo Tirso;

• Câmara Municipal de Valongo;

• Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova de Gaia;

• Câmara Municipal de Viseu;

• Câmara Municipal do Porto;

• CEiiA - Centro de Engenharia e Desenvolvimento;

• Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa, E.M., S.A.;

• EMEL – Empresa Pública Municipal de Estacionamento de Lisboa, E.E.M.;

• GMVIS Skysoft, S.A.;

• Infraestruturas de Portugal, I.P.;

• Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I.P. (IMT, I.P.);

• ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa;

• Loulé Concelho Global, E.M.;

• MIH

• Município da Trofa;

• Município de Lousada;

• Quadrilátero - Associação de Municípios de Fins Específicos Quadrilátero Urbano; 

• Siemens Mobility, Unipessoal Lda;

• TISPT - Consultores em Transportes, Inovação e Sistemas S.A.; 

• Via Verde Serviços (VVS).

Goals, activities and results:

The Cooperative Streets application is aimed to pilot and pre-deploy C-ITS services in several urban areas, also addressing their long-term viability (including cost-efficiency, governance models, business cases and overall impacts and benefits analysis) before moving towards large scale deployment to most urban areas, municipalities and cities in general.

The Cooperative Streets Project has the following goals: to reduce accidents and incidents; to bring to the arena major urban areas along the core network; to enhance decarbonisation; to promote public transportation; to develop mobility-as-a-service solutions. It also seeks to implement the digital transport data layer in Portugal, based on the following principles: multimodality, interoperability, data sharing and reusing (employing static data as baseline and progressing towards dynamic data), digitalisation of the transport network (both physical and digital layer), and preparing roads and streets for Day 2 C-ITS services.

The evolution of mobility connected to urban and metropolitan areas will be accompanied by the necessary involvement of the National Access Point (NAP) and its governance structure. The NAP is a key feature for the entire process and it requires the development of a central and transversal system that guarantees a data-sharing interoperable, seamless, functional, reliable and permanent communication tool.

To deliver on the overall objectives of the Action, there are 5 specific pilots. 

Pilot 1 - " Multimodal National Access Point (multimodal NAP)".

Pilot 2 - "From C-Roads to C-Streets" – representing the connection between roads and urban nodes.

Pilot 3 – “Cooperative Streets" - aiming at the expansion of C-ITS from road to street environment, allowing to test soft mobility, MaaS, parking and traffic management, and on demand transportation solutions. 

Pilot 4 - "MMTIS" (Multimodal Travel Information Services) - covering the need to define a policy framework for both the public and private sectors that operate with the information value chain, and focusing on testing the specifications to properly monitor the performance of public transport contracts and their information systems.

Pilot 5 - "ZLT"- testing the necessary conditions to implement free technology areas - physical or intangible spaces that gather and replicate real conditions for the development of technology display and testing activities with different maturity states.

These five pilots correspond to 60 activities which will demonstrate the potential of C-ITS to carry on road service in metropolitan and urban areas, benefiting from already established and well-defined standards. The goal is to take advantage of the pre-existing services and conditions to achieve a swift deployment of C-ITS and preparation for connectivity and automation, not only across the national core and its comprehensive network (already in process with C-Roads Portugal), but also reaching the two metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto and other municipalities along the axis between these two cities.

Through Cooperative Streets, C-ITS services will be implemented along 210 km of roads leading to urban nodes, ensuring the flow of the service across a long national network.

The Porto Metropolitan Area is working on Pilot 4 - "MMTIS" (Multimodal Travel Information Services)