Citizens will view public transport as an attractive alternative if it offers them easy, coordinated and reliable travel.
Cinesi has the experience and variety of tools to conduct completely sound railway transport studies. Based on analysing the socioeconomic context and current service users and studying existing transport alternatives, we are able to recommend supply scenarios and forecast future demand by using mathematical or simulation models.
Another line of study is functionally analysing existing rail networks (passenger and/or goods) and recommending new supply and demand scenarios for infrastructure changes.
This is the reason why entities like the Barcelona Metropolitan Transport Authority have entrusted Cinesi to reorder Catalonia’s regional services because of the introduction of the Mediterranean corridor alternative route or to promote park and ride facilities at Catalonia’s metropolitan railway stations and Government of Catalonia FGC stations according to projected demands on their lines, or Trambadia for the Bay of Palma’s tram line.
Interurban bus services are in most cases the only alternative available to a population segment depending on the way that transport networks are distributed in the territory.
There are various types, from express services with high features to on-demand transport and also regular services with varying frequency depending on the season.
Cinesi has drawn up regional service plans in various territorial areas of Catalonia, as well as specific studies on the islands of Mallorca, Menorca and Tenerife.
Cinesi has from the beginning specialised in studies related to various facets of urban passenger public transport. Our experience in this sector encompasses both administrations and public or private transport companies.
Cinesi’s collaboration has been particularly noted in the following fields:
We are well acquainted with the taxi sector and are aware of the fact that it is subject to constant fluctuations in demand due to variations in the economic context, tourist seasonality and major events. This can lead to episodes of service collapse, with their subsequent impact on public opinion, or relatively prolonged periods of low activity.
The studies conducted by Cinesi in the taxi sector aim to find a balance between supply and demand throughout the year. To do this we propose:
One of the tasks also carried out by Cinesi is the assistance of healthcare transport companies.
Our help in this case focuses on collaboration to seek out and assess tenders for the provision of this service throughout Spain and, if required, provide support in preparing the bid, whether the tender is for urgent or non-urgent healthcare transport.
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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