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AlpCheck - Alpine Mobility Check

Last update: 09/11/2008

Aim
Many studies have been carried out to underline problems related with traffic flows in the delicate environment of the Alps, but each of them encountered strong difficulties to find reliable data and data shared by the different interested regions.
The availability of trustful traffic data represents the main starting point for each study in the Alpine Space and consequently for the definition of interventions for mitigating the impact in a sustainable way. At present traffic data are collected by different road operators in the Alpine Space The project AlpCheck intends to build an informative system able to collect, organise and make these data homogeneous. The project aims to realise a flexible system, able to use as many already implemented technologies as possible and thereby to eliminate the problem of data duplication. Furthermore the project intends to facilitate handling and extracting traffic related data starting from the data already systematically collected but not yet shared or analysed on an Alpine wide scale.

Activities
The project AlpCheck will develop pilot actions in order to apply the informative system to the largest number of innovative technologies for the vehicle monitoring (weigth-in-motion linked with GPS systems, real time transfer data, GPS linked with portals, etc.). Once the complete overview of existing data and relations is reached, it will be possible to optimise trips, to reduce the number of heavy vehicles on the roads and to study a global system for the trips re-allocation.
Attention will also be put on the environmental aspects. The informative system will be tested also for the application of environmental themes by the realisation of the specific emission model that will use the information deriving from the informative system created by the project.

Outcomes and results
The main outcome of AlpCheck is to create an open information system ready to interchange (using specific software for conversion) data from different devices for monitoring and counting of road traffic within the Alpine Space. The system will integrate different technologies and methods to gain high value information to govern both traffic and pollution emissions in Alpine Regions. All the types of road traffic will be considered (long distance, local, commuting, tourist and goods).

Besides the information system it is worth to mention some
other outcomes:

• 6 pilot projects for testing new technologies;
• representation of traffic trends in the pilot project areas;
• comparative analysis between local monitoring of pollutant
  emissions and results of environmental simulations;
• realisation of an interactive website;
• conferences, publications and disseminations of results.

Lead partner
- Regione del Veneto – Giunta Regionale, Italy

Other partners
- Autorità Portuale di Venezia, Italy
- Land Kärnten, Austria
- CSST, Italy
- EURAC,  Italy
- IREALP, Italy
- OMEGA consult, Slovenia
- Paradigma Unternehmensberatung  GmbH, Austria
- Regione Autonoma Valle d´Aosta, Italy
- SLALA, Italy
- TCI Röhling, Germania
- ICCR, Austria
- Università di Maribor, Slovenia

Duration
07.2006 – 06.2008

Total budget in EUR
4.607.900
ERDF in EUR
2.366.450

News about AlpCheck Project:

• 20.06.08 - Conference proceedings “Le tecnologie satellitari per l’infomobilità e i servizi al territorio. Il progetto AlpCheck” 

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AlpCheck Booklet EN

AlpCheck Final Publication ENG

AlpCheck Brochure