Transport 4.0
Hamburg’s Strategy for ITS
Structuring high quantities of data and
creating a strategy for the future
www.its2021.hamburg
Foreword
Large cities like Hamburg are confronted with the challenge of
modernising important national and international transport hubs.
Three of the nine major European transport arteries – the TEN-T
corridors – intersect in Hamburg. Around 40,000 trucks drive into
the Port of Hamburg every day, and more than ten percent of all
rail freight journeys in Germany start or finish there. Each day,
around 500,000 people commute to and from Hamburg. All
forecasts predict that traffic will further increase on transregional
transport routes. To meet this demand we need henceforward to
develop and maintain a high-performing infrastructure. However,
we must also focus our efforts on making better and more efficient
use of the existing infrastructure. At the same time citizens expect
to live in a proper, safe and worth living urban environment.
Moreover, our increasingly digital world will bring huge changes to
transport and traffic, and this will put additional pressure on city
governments. It is important to address these new challenges as
early as possible. Digital transformation and the use of digital
technologies will play a key role here.
Hamburg wants to make good use of these opportunities and
improve its use of digital technologies to make transportation
more efficient, safer, and more environmentally friendly. By
adopting the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Strategy in
Hamburg on 26 April 2016, we have now taken an important first
step towards “Transport 4.0”.
Frank Horch
Senator
Ministry of Economy,
Transport and Innovation
Free and Hanseatic City of
Hamburg
A key part of this strategy is Hamburg’s bid to host the ITS World
Congress in 2021, which gives us additional motivation to
implement the corresponding projects in a targeted and effective
way.
I am convinced that the digital transformation just has begun and
that it will permanently change the way humans move around our
world. That is another reason why this strategy is so important.
The investments that Hamburg’s city government will be making in
this regard will not be an end in themselves; they will serve
Hamburg’s citizens and visitors. On the following pages you will
find more details about the strategy and a few examples. We look
forward to hearing your thoughts on the intelligent design of the
transportation of tomorrow.
Management Summary ITS Strategy
Hamburg will push the use of information, communication, and innovative technology for an innovate
mobility ahead. New ways of using digital technology is important in order to make traffic in Hamburg
safer, more efficient, and environmentally friendly in future. Therefore important aims of the so called
ITS-Strategy for Hamburg are, amongst others, the increase in traffic safety, the enhancement of traffic
flow, the reduction of negative environmental impact caused by traffic and the advancement of several
innovations. These aims are pursued in eight key activities: Data, intelligent traffic information, intelligent
traffic management, intelligent infrastructure, intelligent mobility-as-a-service, intelligent parking,
intelligent vehicles and promotion of innovation.
Besides different projects in this focus areas over the next two years, various goals and concrete actions
as well as a schedule and financial planning will be worked out as part of the ITS strategy. This includes
a standard data strategy for traffic, which allows for networking and exchanging data and information
after careful consideration. At the end of the two years, a progress report with goals and specifications
on the projects will be available.
An intelligent building site beacon by the Hamburg Port Authority and Hamburger Hochbahn AG’s
mobile pay system called “Check-in/Be-out” were among the first projects. Additionally, there are
projects within the field of intelligent parking by the agency of transport (Landesbetrieb Verkehr) and the
agency of roads, bridges and waters (Landesbetrieb Straßen, Brücken und Gewässer).
ITS refer to advanced applications that aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of
transport, traffic infrastructure and vehicle systems. Based on real time data, large amount of information
and underlying automated processes, ITS applications and services can have positive effects. Based on
the ITS strategy, the use of information and communications technology as well as innovative
technology in traffic can be structured and create the framework for an innovative, multimodal approach
to Hamburg’s traffic system and taking account of digital change.
Therefore in October 2015 Hamburg announced its application to host the ITS World Congress in 2021,
the largest event in the field of ITS.
You can find further information here. An English Version of the whole ITS-Strategy will be provided
soon:
www.its2021.hamburg
Objectives for the ITS strategy:
 Framework for ITS and setting the goals in the digital
transport strategy
 Create the requirements for the use of modern information
and communication technology in the transport sector
 Creates the organizational and technical frame for digital
projects in all kinds of transport
 Support the use of real time data
 Efficient planning of mobility for people and goods
 Senate’s approval 26th April 2016
ITS-Strategy – Goals
Efficient and
reliable
Transport
High Quality
Transport
and Service
Information
Advancement
of
Innovation
ITS-Systems
Sustainable
friendly
Transport
ITS-Strategy – Focus Areas
Safe and
Secure
Transport
Examples for ITS in Hamburg
„Check-in/Be-out“ in Public Transport
 Increase comfort for customers
 Introduction of a Smartphone-based "check in/be-out“system
 automatic check-out when leaving the vehicle lowers the
barriers to access for the customers to public transport
 integration in existing public-transport app and new
switchh app
 6-month pilot phase
 from mid-2017 transmission on the total area
 from mid-2018 in 2.200 buses, 2.000 cars of S -, U -, and
regional rail, as well as 24 ferries
Examples for ITS in Hamburg
smartPORT Hamburg
The smartPORT Hamburg concept focuses on increasing the
economic efficiency of the Port of Hamburg as an important link
in the global supply chain. To optimise traffic & trade flows, the
Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) initiates projects in the field of:
 Cooperative ITS
 Automated driving
 Internet of Things
Examples for ITS in Hamburg
Real-Time-Construction-Site-Data
 Approach for future construction site management
 “iBake” sends exact position
 Ideal to point out “one day-construction sites” in real time
 data can be used by navigation and coordination
systems
Examples for ITS in Hamburg
Traffic-light-forecast
 Provision of traffic-light- data (switching times, maps)
 Develop a high-performance and high-quality forecast service
 Taking into account the transport-dependent influences
 Calculating an exact switching time forecast
 Establish a forecast for all traffic participants
 Optimization of the traffic flow through proactive traffic
participants
 Suitable for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists
Examples for ITS in Hamburg
Co-ordination of Construction Works
 Construction works are coordinated between all parties
involved
 Less congestion and less pollution
 More transparency for citizens and companies
Examples for ITS in Hamburg
Online parking detection
 Detection of parking space occupancy via sensor technology
 Processing of information in the central IT system
 Providing information for drivers
 Planning the own route with change of means of transport
(car, bus, train, bicycle)
 More traffic safety by detecting illegal parked cars
Behörde für Wirtschaft,
Verkehr und Innovation
Alter Steinweg 4
20459 Hamburg
Tel.: 040 428 41 1311
Fax: 040 428 41 1620
www.hamburg.de/bwvi
 Free parking space support retail
ITS World Congress 2021
COPENHAGEN
2018
SINGAPORE
2019
www.its2021.hamburg
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2020
Contact:
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Ministry of Economy, Transport and
Innovation
Alter Steinweg 4
20459 Hamburg
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.its2021.hamburg