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: Gdańsk Gdańsk, located at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, has a history of over 1000 years and is the largest city in the Pomerania region of northern Poland. It is a large centre of economic life, science, culture and a popular tourist destination. Gdańsk has the third biggest airport in Poland (over 4 million passengers per year) and the largest container terminal in the Baltic Sea (over 1.2 million TEU in 2016 with capacity 3 million TEU). With over 460,000 inhabitants it is one of few Polish cites with relatively good demographics. From several years the birth rate has been growing as well as migration rate. http://www.gdansk.pl/en/1
: Innovative tools Gdańsk is considered as one of the most innovative and open-minded Polish cities and the cyclingcapital of Poland. These opinions commits us to do our best in terms of sustainable transport as well as innovative tools.It all started back in the 90s. In 1994, Gdańsk bought first low-floor buses in Poland. Today it sounds rather commonly, but after years of iron curtain isolation and economic stagnation it was a real revolution and re-orientation of approach in public transport. We said: It should not only run, but it also should be as accessible and convenient for everyone as possible. Today with all easy-accessible busses and almost 90% of our trams, we are working towards integration enhancement.We are re-developing transport hubs located all over the city to connect not only trams or busses, but also trains and bikes or cars. We are working on ticket and fares integration too. With over 50 transportation authorities and companies to cooperate and its difficulty, the first stage, introduced next year, will be ticket and reckoning integration within the metropolitan area (Metropolitan Electronic Ticket). It is too soon to tell more details about its functionality, but we want it to be the most integrated, convenient and up-to-date solution available on the market. So it will not be only an electronic ticket, but it also could be a student ID card, library card and debit or credit card as well. From the technical side there is no limit to integrate it with existing chip-based cards. However, using smartphones as a debit card is becoming very popular today and slowly replaces plastic cards, thereforewe want it to be smart replacement for today’s apps in everyday usage as well.
: Metropolitan Electronic Ticket Metropolitan Electronic Ticket will be also integrated with introducing in 2018 Metropolitan Bicycle Sharing System. We all know public bicycle sharing systems with docking stations and not-always convenient registration and payment ways. Our system will be one of the biggest in Poland and one of the most advanced
system in Europe. It will be IV-generation system fully based on GPS app. It means that the system is dockless and bike could be rented by your smartphone and returned on every bicycle rack in the city. To avoid uncontrolled locked-up bikes all over the city, with the system will come over new 4,300 bicycle racks. These racks will be preferred by the system, which means leaving bike here will be cheaper for a user. The system will be flexible enough to modify pricing just on base of real-time traffic and bikes location. For example it could reward users going in less popular directions, for instance uphill (altitude difference in Gdańsk reaches up to 200 m) or in the sunny day from the beach to the city centre. But there is another advantage of using Metropolitan Electronic Ticket or Metropolitan Bicycle Sharing System. The advanced IT system will provide us with very valuable data. It will show us how and where people travel, which routes they take by bikes, where bicycle racks are more used, or which directions are more frequent. Based on that data we could plan investments in infrastructure or maintenance. The same applies in case of the ticket and public transport: which bus or tram routes should be reinforced with more vehicles, which should be changed at all, or which should be cancelled.
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