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Antibes Demonstration

In June 2004 a 2-week demonstration was organized in the city of Antibes-Juan les Pins. On one of the lanes of the ‘Avenue du Verdun’, a 1 kilometer trajectory, the ParkShuttle operated as part of the EU-subsidy program CyberMove. During 12 days of operation, several field trips for schools and other organizations were hosted – to familiarize people with the system and research their reactions and opinions. The results of the research are available here.

The trajectory of the demonstration was a fraction of the planned trajectory for the final project envisioned along the port of Antibes. During the summer the population of the French Riviera city more than doubles – causing traffic and parking problems. Public transportation only has a 4% modal share, while there are over 335.000 internal dailiy trips (80% of those made by residents). Besides the historical city centre, where pedestrians have gained priority over cars, Antibes is predominantly car-oriented – with 50% of (private) car trips being shorter than 2km.

The local authorities are planning to:

• define the historical centre as a pedestrian area, connected to the suburbs by urban shuttles;
• create intermodal platform (with Park & Ride);
• create a better Public Transport service with dedicated lanes;
• build new railway lanes (Metro) to improve the accessibility to the centre and the connection with the main cities (in direction of Nice and Cannes);
• improve the Public Transport offer (frequency, comfort, connections).

The mid-term strategy is clearly to move away cars not adapted to the historical city street network in order to decrease traffic consequences (e.g. noise, atmospheric pollution, damaging monuments, time loss) and improve public spaces devoted to cultural and commercial activities. This strategy requires finding innovative and complementary solutions to Public Transport, including automated people mover systems, which are seen as a way to introduce new mobility management.

Antibes Demonstration summarized:

Description:							Demonstration
Operational period:							1 – 14 Juni 2004
Patronage:							± 12.000 passengers
Peak Capacity:							n.a.
Service Frequency:							n.a.
Times of Operation:							12hrs. p/d, 7 days p/w
Configuration:							Line-connection
Operations:							n.a.
Connections:							n.a.
Type of vehicle:							2nd generation ParkShuttle
Number of Vehicles:							1
Passengers seated/standing:							12 / 10+
Drive:							Electric
Supervisory Control System:							Transit Operations Monitoring and Supervision (TOMS)
Track Length:							1.000 meters
Number of Stations:							2, on-line
Berths per station:							2 single berth stations
Crossings for Traffic/Pedestrians:							0 / random pedestrian crossings facilitated