Toulouse Conference

The PRISCILLA Project, launched in November 2000 within the framework of the European Union's 5th Framework Programme for Research and Development, and involving the cities of Genoa, Southampton and Toulouse, with funding from the European Commission's Information Society Directorate, came to completion in September 2002.

To mark the event, the project partners invited representatives of local authorities, transport operators, industrial societies and consultancies to take part in a conference specially dedicated to bus priority systems and their integration in global transportation management policies.

[Some presentations may be downloaded from this site]
[Pictures of the conference are available]

Conference Programme:
9.45 Welcome speech from Christine De Veyrac
10.00 The PRISCILLA Project (session chaired by Alexio Picco) [MS Powerpoint, 1.7Mb]:
- The framework in which PRISCILLA is working in and some outlook on the 6th Framework Program (Wolfgang Höfs)
- State of the art analysis in bus priority systems (Andrew Walsh) [MS Powerpoint, 814Kb]
- Bus priority simulation - Southampton experience (Nick Hounsell) [MS Powerpoint, 1.5Mb]
- Presentation of the PRISCILLA overall results (Patrick Olivero) [MS Powerpoint, 1.3Mb]
- The PRISCILLA Best practice guide (Alexio Picco) [MS Powerpoint, 1.25Mb]
- Opportunities and barriers in Central and East European countries - The Romanian View (Doina Anastase) [MS Powerpoint presentation in three parts: Part 1 (2Mb); Part 2 (5Mb); Part 3 (3Mb)
13.30 Visit to the Cité de l'Espace
14.30 Bus priority and mobility management (session chaired by François Rambaud):
- The Zurich approach to bus priority (Hans Peter Oehrli) [MS Word, 46Kb]
- Deployment of bus priority on the Toulouse urban buses netowrk - PRISCILLA learning (Alexandre Blaquiere) [MS Powerpoint, 631Kb]
- Bus priority system - the industrial point of view (In French, Edgard Antoine) [PDF, 134Kb]
- Bus priority in Val d'Oise: multi-operators system experimentation (In French, Cyrille Granie) [MS Powerpoint, 378Kb]
- Traffic management adapted to a tramway lane (Sorin Neagra)
17.10 Closing speeches (Jean-Michel Lattes; Louis Bardou; Wolfgang Höfs)

This conference's goal was to introduce the results obtained in the framework of the PRISCILLA Project, to share experience acquired in the field by all the various players and discuss perspectives in terms of development and deployment of priority for public transport.

The Cité de l'Espace Museum was chosen to host the event; it is laden with symbolism as it conjures up both innovation as related to European projects (Ariane V), co-operation with the East European countries (MIR space station) and using satellites for vehicle positioning and guidance.