Tracks are road infrastructures that provide territorial structure in order to serve agricultural and livestock activities, access cultural, historical and leisure heritage and also provide a connection between major centres and scattered population communities.
This is the reason why the management of track networks at all administrative levels is a crucial element in ensuring the conservation and maintenance of leading infrastructure for daily mobility and a legacy of our past, present and future.
Cinesi has proven experience in creating track inventories and catalogues, as demonstrated by the fact that Barcelona Provincial Council has entrusted us to create those of Santa Margarida de Montbui, Sant Sadurní d’Osormort, Polinyà, Olvan, Rubió and Aguilar de Segarra, as well as that of Albiol in the province of Tarragona.
A track inventory is an administrative record that identifies and describes publicly owned public tracks. Its preparation is mandatory for municipalities and serves to manage and improve local mobility, protect the public domain, conserve and promote cultural heritage and encourage alternatives for local leisure and tourism development.
A track catalogue is a document that analyses the basic features of the series of municipal roadways that can be used by existing vehicles in the territory, collecting, sorting and processing the data obtained during fieldwork (longitudinal profile, functionality, state of conservation, width and type of surface, etc.)
Cinesi has created track plans and inventories for several counties: Maresme, Anoia, Bages, Cerdanya, Vall d’Aran and Terres de l’Ebre.
County track inventories for motorised traffic are classified according to their functionality:
– Tracks connecting the urban centres of various municipalities or within the same municipality, between them or with road networks
– Tracks acting as an alternative route or shortcut to a road route
– Tracks leading to a public place of major interest in the county
– Tracks that have a supracounty significance
These include the drafting of a plan to define the actions that must be taken in order to comply with the law on motorised access:
In order to achieve more efficient management of a territory’s track network, the territorial unit under analysis must be extended to identify what relationships there are with other adjoining counties and municipalities. Cinesi relies on several tools to do this:
Cinesi has analysed the sporting trails in the counties of Bages, Berguedà, Moianès, Garraf, Anoia and Osona. The aim of this is to adapt a rural track for sports to thereby convert it into an additional amenity for the population.
The benefits of sporting trails are many:
GIS is a system that can store, analyse and display geographical information. It therefore has the peculiarity of integrating the variable of space, which makes it a very powerful tool to support any type of study or project to help in the decision-making process.
In the above charts you can see some of its applications in Cinesi’s projects.
Automatic. Automatic traffic counting devices to record traffic volume and vehicle speeds. These provide insights into hourly and daily trends by vehicle type and direction of travel.
Directional. Designed to track the routes taken by pedestrians, cyclists, private vehicles, heavy vehicles, etc.
Plate reading system. To track the routes of motor vehicles by monitoring access points and intermediate checkpoints.
Parking. Analysis of occupancy (the length of time each space remains occupied) and turnover (the number of vehicles parking), identification of the place of residence of parked vehicles, and detection of illegal parking.
Analysis of the physical aspects of networks and photographic and/or video gathering that helps to define the condition of each section in a highly visual manner. Cinesi has the following specific material resources for conducting inventories:
4×4 vehicle. This vehicle incorporates an odometer and inclinometer to measure the length and tilt of the route, as well as a GPS receiver.
ArcGIS Field Maps. A mobile application that streamlines the process of accurate data gathering to be processed in the office during fieldwork.
The “Mystery shopper” is an essential tool for measuring, analysing and improving aspects relating to customer service.
Acting anonymously as regular customers, specialised evaluators assess key aspects related to the perception of service users, such as information on board and at stops, quality of driving, stare of cleanliness and maintenance inside and outside the vehicles and at stops, etc.
The resulting report presented by Cinesi includes all the information gathered, including quantitative and qualitative assessments and corresponding recommendations for improvement.
ADVANCE Audit is a certification tool for improving sustainable urban mobility plans, analysing the strengths and weaknesses of a city’s current mobility planning and providing directions on how to improve this in terms of sustainability.
There are a great many benefits for cities participating in the process of ADVANCE certification:
BYPAD, an acronym for Bicycle Policy Audit, is a tool developed by an international consortium of bicycle experts as part of an EU-funded project. BYPAD provides an overview of the measures and structures applied in local cycling policy.
Cinesi uses it to be able to assess the quality of cycling policies of cities by analysing their strengths and weaknesses and making specific recommendations on how to improve their cycling policy in the future.
Key applications of simulation models include network analysis, passenger transport analysis, the creation of demand models and transport planning, the design of vehicle routes and logistics, as well as land-use planning, amongst others.
At Cinesi, we use two simulation models depending on the scope of the study: TransCAD, for macroscopic, and AIMSUN, for smaller-scale studies.
TransCAD. This is a macroscopic simulation model used primarily to study mobility on supra-municipal roads. Using a geographic information system (GIS), this programme enables data for any mode of transport to be stored and analysed.
AIMSUN. This is a microscopic simulation model used to study mobility withing urban networks. It allows for vehicle-by-vehicle tracking and real-time visualisation. By simulating the various modes of transport and visualising the movement of different road users, the impact of future developments on the road network can be assessed. This makes it possible to identify potential problem areas.
AUTOTURN. A simulation model for manoeuvres and analysis of turning radii based on the current or future road network for light vehicles, heavy vehicles and buses.
Surveys are a vital source for supporting the diagnoses and action plans we propose. They can be outsourced to market research companies, with Cinesi overseeing these, or directly undertaken by Cinesi with contracted staff for the occasion.
We handle the following tasks:
Cinesi calculates emissions and environmental indicators based on (urban and interurban) transport networks and the environmental targets in question, thereby helping to compare modal quotas and existing emissions with those forecast in future scenarios.
One of the tools we use is AMBIMOB 2.0, from the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainability, which helps to environmentally assess the measures of sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs). In addition to showing the variation in emissions for each pollutant, it allows us to assess the contribution of these measures towards the reductions set out in the Mobility Master Plans (MMPs).
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