Autocesta Rijeka - Zagreb dd

HRVATSKA UDRUGA KONCESIONARA ZA
AUTOCESTE S NAPLATOM CESTARINE /
CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF TOLL
MOTORWAYS CONCESSIONAIRES
NEWSLETTER
APRIL 2011
ISSN: 1848-0683
Autocesta Rijeka - Zagreb d.d.
Autocesta Rijeka - Zagreb d.d. appoints Management Board members
The Government of the Republic of Croatia
adopted, during its session held on 17 March
2011, the Conclusion by which it proposed to
the Supervisory Board of Autocesta RijekaZagreb d.d. to appoint Mr. Željko Denona as
Management Board Member for Technical
Affairs, and Mr. Robert Tukač as Management Board Member for Economic Affairs.
In the Supervisory Board session held on
30 March 2011, Mr. Željko Denona was ap-
pointed as Management Board Member for
Technical Affairs, while Mr. Robert Tukač
was appointed as Management Board Member for Economic Affairs.
Željko Denona, Management Board
Member for Technical Affairs
Robert Tukač, Management Board Member for
Economic Affairs
Mr. Željko Denona was born on 30
June 1957 in Pula where he completed his primary and secondary
school studies.
In 1982 he graduates from that Faculty of Civil Engineering in Rijeka.
After the end of university studies,
he starts working at the company Adriamont, Rijeka,
and then moves to construction company GP Primorje
also from Rijeka, where he works in the Construction
Sector, on practical engineering assignments, and
gradually advances to the position of site manager.
In his capacity as site manager, he inter alia manages
works during construction of the thermal power plant
Plomin II (1987 - 1989) and Croatialine office building (1989-1991). In 1993 he founds, together with his
spouse, his own private company DEN-ING d.o.o and
operates this company until 2001.
In 2001, he starts working at Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb
as director of the Sector for Roadside Service Facilities.
In response to the proposal made by the Government
of the Republic of Croatia, the Supervisory board of
the Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d. appoints him on 30
March 2011 as Management Board Member for Technical Affairs. Mr. Denona is married and the father of
two children.
Mr. Robert Tukač, born in Zagreb on 1 January 1957,
completed in this city his primary and secondary school
studies and graduated in 1980 from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, academic major: Marketing.
His first employment was with Ljubljanska banka d.d.,
Ljubljana - Principal Branch Office in Zagreb, where he
works as official in charge of loans and guarantees at the
Funding & Placement Sector.
After twelve years he moves in May 1993 to Ilirija banka d.d., Zagreb where he
works for the next four years as Manager in charge of loans and guarantees.
As of 1997 he works as finance consultant at the Funding & Placement Sector
of Partner banka d.d., Zagreb.
In May 1998 he moves to Credo banka d.d., Split, Branch Office in Zagreb,
where he assumes the position of Deputy Head of Branch Office.
He is employed with the savings bank Štedionica More d.d., Zagreb, as from
November 1999, first in the capacity of Chief of Loans Department. In early
2000 he passes the banker’s examination for the bank’s Management Board
members. As of September 2000, he assumes the position of President of
Management Board in this savings bank.
After acquisition of the savings bank by Banka Kovanica d.d. Varaždin, Mr.
Tukač works as of January 2002 as Executive Director of the Poslovni centar
poduzetništva (Business Centre of Entrepreneurs).
Following proposal of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, the Supervisory board of the Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d. appoints him on 30 March 2011 as Management Board Member for Economic Affairs. Mr. Tukač is
married and the father of two children.
Appointment of the new Supervisory Board at Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d.
On 17 December 2010 the Government
of the Republic of Croatia proposed to
the General Assembly of the Joint Stock
Company Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d.
to recall the Supervisory Board members
Bojan Hlača, Ph.D., Luka Matijević, M.Sc.,
Slavko Leban and Slobodan Vračar, and
proposed to the General Assembly of Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb d.d. to appoint new
Supervisory Board members as follows:
Bojan Hlača, Ph.D., Luka Matijević, M.Sc.,
Krunoslav Šams and Ivo Zrilić.
Following this governmental proposal, the
general Assembly appointed on 16 February 2011 the new Supervisory Board members: Bojan Hlača, Ph.D., Luka Matijević,
M.Sc., Krunoslav Šams and Ivo Zrilić.
Mladen Efendić was appointed as Supervi-
sory Board member - representative of
the employees.
The constituting session of the Supervisory Board was held on 22 February 2011.
Bojan Hlača, M.Sc. was elected as President of the Supervisory Board of Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb, while Luka Matijević,
M.Sc. was elected as Vice President of the
Supervisory Board.
HUKA’s National Report for 2010
New, updated issue of HUKA’s National Report for 2010 has been published in April this
year and provides an overview of the most
significant data dealing with the activities
of motorway operators in Croatia. Here you
can find information about construction of
motorways in the previous year, openings of
new sections, statistical data regarding income, traffic and safety for all motorway operators as well as their short and long term
plans. HUKA’s National Report is now for the
first time also available in printed version as
well as on the Internet site www.huka.hr .
As on 1 January 2011, the total length of the
motorway network in Croatia amounted to
1,240.7 km. Motorways are operated by 4
companies: Hrvatske autoceste d.o.o. (operates all toll motorways, i.e. A1, A3, A4, A5,
A10, A11, A12 and A13, except for the ones
under concession), and three concession
companies, i.e. BINA-ISTRA d.d. Pula (it operates the so called Istrian Y - A8 and A9),
MOTORWAY NETWORK
2009
Total network
Company
2010
Total network
Total network
plan for 2011
HAC d.o.o.
858.0
858.0
869.5
2.
ARZ d.d.
181.7
181.7
181.7
3.
BINA-ISTRA d.d.
141.0
141.0
141.0
4.
AZM d.o.o.
60.0
60.0
60.0
1,240.7
1,240.7
1,252.2
1.
TOTAL:
Hrvatske autoceste d.o.o.
Reorganization of Hrvatske autoceste
The reorganization in Hrvatske autoceste
was undertaken at the level of the Company Management Board, at individual Sectors, and in Independent Departments.
The Company Management Board is
formed of the Management Board President, Mr. Stjepko Boban, B.Sc. (Civ.Eng.),
and the new Head Office Director is Mr.
Mladen Čorda, M.Sc.
Changes were also made in the Transport Sector where Mr. Eduard Zaninović,
B.Sc. (Transport Eng.) was appointed as
Head of the Transport Sector, while Mrs.
Snježana Vrkljan, LL.M. was appointed as
Head of the Sector for Legal and General
Affairs, and Mrs. Danira Čikara became
Manager of the Division for Roadside
Service Facilities.
Construction and Maintenance Programme for Hrvatske
autoceste for 2011
On 3rd March, 2011 Croatian Government
gave its consent to Croatian Motorways
Company for the Construction and Maintenance Programme.
Croatian Motorways Ltd is planning to invest 275.780.920 EUR, which exceeds the
Government’s initial programme for 2011.
by a sum of 166.376.319 EUR. The exceeded expenses are based on:
financing the section of the motorway network at Corridor Vc, along the northern
and southern border of Bosnia and Herze-
govina through a credit from the European
Investment Bank (EIB) and the European
bank for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) the results
of a capital market survey – the realistic
chances of financing the construction of a
bridge over river Drava through favourable
long-term credits transfer of unrealised investments from previous periods into 2011
The motorway investments for 2011 are
planned according to types and values:
Land acquisition and archaeological research
Construction
275,780,920 EUR
Extra maintenance
20,297,699 EUR
Regular maintenance
18,430,311 EUR
Total:
314,508,930 EUR
Autocesta Rijeka - Zagreb d.d. (A6, A7, part
of A1, and the Krk Bridge), and Autocesta
Zagreb - Macelj d.o.o. (A2).
Hrvatske autoceste are
to implement the information security management system based on
international standard
ISO 27001:2005
Hrvatske autoceste d.o.o. have started with implementation of the information security management system
based on the international standard
ISO 27001:2005.
On 26 January 2011, HAC signed
with the company Bureau Veritas
Croatia d.o.o. the Agreement on certification of the information security
management system in accordance
with the international standard ISO
27001:2005.
The harmonization with the international standard ISO 27001:2005 is a
legal obligation arising from the Information Security Act (Official Gazette 79/07), i.e. from the Ordinance
on Information Safety Measures, Article 8 (Official Gazette 46/08).
amount to 25.390.257 EUR, diversion
of utilities amounts to 5.297.699 EUR,
design work amounts to 14.755.886
EUR, construction amounts to
24.263.870 EUR and supervision expenses amount to 6.073.207 EUR of
total planned investments.
HRVATSKA UDRUGA KONCESIONARA ZA AUTOCESTE S NAPLATOM CESTARINE / CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF TOLL MOTORWAYS CONCESSIONAIRES
NEWSLETTER 21, APRIL 2011
Autocesta Rijeka - Zagreb d.d.
User satisfaction testing
The company Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb
(ARZ) has set as its priority the task of ensuring that their users will reach their
destination safely and comfortably, and is
therefore constantly monitoring motorway
users’ wishes, needs, objections, and also
their commendations. Highly aware of the
fact that loyal and satisfied users can only
be gained through responsible provision of
services, the company has been testing user
satisfaction since 2005 via Internet, and also
through direct interviewing on the motorway
(at roadside rest areas). About two thousand
users have so far taken part in these survey
activities, and ARZ is thankful to all of them
for their contribution in assisting the company to raise the quality of services and to
improve its overall performance.
The total average grade of 3.7 was obtained
in the survey conducted in 2010. Last year
the total average grade was 3.62, while it
amounted to 3.43 in 2008. It is nice to see that
the grades have been steadily albeit slightly
increasing over the past three years in a row.
Total average grade
Although we can be satisfied with this result,
there is still something that we have to focus
our attention to. In fact, although willingness
to help and kindness of our personnel has
been for a number of year our best graded
aspect, it has come down this year to 3.8 from
the last year’s 4.0. This is the customer relations element that should be growing year
after year, or should at least remain at a constant level. Let’s remind ourselves of the ancient Chinese proverb that goes like this: “Do
not open a store if you don’t like to smile”. Do
we actually smile enough? Is our service appropriately received? Do our customers see
us as satisfied and smiling provider of highquality services? What can we do better?
There is an ample room for improvement
and, to this effect, we should constantly bear
in mind some facts that each person dealing
with users has to remember at all times:
• customer is always right (even when he is
wrong),
• a complaint is a gift,
• user satisfaction is the measure of our
success.
Total average grade
Average grades for individual aspects
A novelty introduced in this survey was that
the users were given the possibility to leave
their contact information, which most of
them actually did. This contact information
was used to apologise once again to users
that were not satisfied with our previous
answers, or with replies to complaints, and
also to provide additional and more detailed
information to such users.
The second novelty is the question about the
section most often used boy the users. This
question was introduced so that, in case the
user objects to signs and markings, some
event, or behaviour of personnel, we can
easier establish where the incident actually
occurred.
After filling in the questionnaire, the users
have the opportunity to say if there is something they have been particularly satisfied or
unsatisfied with regarding the motorway, and
to add something that is in their view important but is not covered by the questionnaire.
Objections were mostly related to the
functioning of the electronic toll collection
system (account replenishment methods,
traffic jams at ETC lanes, etc.), road closing because of road works, and uncivilized
behaviour and wild driving of other users.
On the other hand, commendations were
most often given good functioning of the
ETC system which greatly facilitates the
travelling, and for kindness of personnel.
substances that are likely to pollute surface
water. Sudden environmental pollution is
an emergency situation that can occur at
any moment, which is why rapid and proper
reaction is needed so as to reduce harmful
consequences.
Bina-Istra organizes every year an environmental incident drill In order to review
knowledge and skill already acquired by
its employees. The drill is composed of
two parts, theoretical and practical. The
theoretical part consists of a presentation
in the scope of which levels of pollution experienced during environmental incidents
are defined, and measures to be taken are
explained in detail for every individual level. Preventive measures aimed at avoiding
such incidents are defined, and procedures
to be followed in case of sudden pollution
are specified.
The theoretical part, which includes presentation and brief verification of knowledge,
is followed by the second part of the drill,
i.e. by on-site simulation of an environmental incident. An environmental incident
classified as the first level of pollution was
simulated, and Bina-Istra services were
called upon to intervene. The company’s
safety and operation services, and also
maintenance services, practiced how to
react in incidental situations in order to effectively prevent pollution of natural environment.
In 2010, the best graded aspects, with an
average grade of 4.0, were road signs and
markings, and the overall appearance and
cleanliness of our toll stations. The toll level, with an average grade of 2.9, still remains
the worst graded aspect. The grade of 3.9
was awarded for the appearance and cleanliness of roadside rest areas. The grade of
3.8 was given for the willingness to help
and kindness of our personnel, for services
offered at the roadside rest areas, and for
traffic safety. An average grade of 3.7 was
given for the speed of passage through toll
stations, presence of road maintenance patrols, and timely provision of information
about situation on the motorway.
Bina-Istra d.d.
Environmental incident drill
A prominent place among numerous principles applied by Bina-Istra is reserved to
environmental protection. In the course of
its normal activities and daily operations,
the company pays special attention to waste
management and pollution abatement.
In addition to well established activities
through which the company contributes to
the protection of our environment, BinaIstra also undertakes activities to counter
potential dangers that are not expected,
and that pose an everyday threat to our
environment. Sudden pollution can not
be anticipated and is hard to prevent. It is
therefore very significant to know how to
undertake rapid and efficient action in such
situations. Sudden cases of pollution include spilling of toxic, hazardous and other
HRVATSKA UDRUGA KONCESIONARA ZA AUTOCESTE S NAPLATOM CESTARINE / CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF TOLL MOTORWAYS CONCESSIONAIRES
NEWSLETTER 21, APRIL 2011
Bina-Istra d.d.
Electric power savings at Učka Tunnel - ABB mathematical model for ventilation management
The Učka Tunnel is a significant traffic link
connecting the region of Istria with the rest
of Croatia. The tunnel construction started
in 1976 and the tunnel tube was fully excavated in 1978. The tunnel was opened to traffic in 1981. The tunnel has been operated by
concessionaire BINA-ISTRA d.d. since 1995.
The main “Učka Tunnel” is 5062 m in length.
The traffic is operated in two directions, with
one driving lane for each direction of travel.
The other two tunnels “Zrinščak I” (196 m)
and “Zrinščak II” (45 m) form a whole with the
main tunnel, and the three tunnels are operated remotely from the control centre facility
situated at the Istrian side of the tunnel.
In the past period, the Concessionaire conducted two safety checks for this tunnel, the
first one in 1996 and the second in 2005, in
order to obtain recommendations about how
to increase the level of safety in the tunnel.
Over the past several years, the concessionaire has been modernizing technical installations in the Učka Tunnel, and some of these
activities are still in progress. Major works
undertaken in this respect are related to the
following installations: remote operation
system (ROS), lighting, ventilation, power
supply, fire detection system, video surveillance system and automatic detection of
accidents, emergency (SOS) station, traffic
signs and markings, and radio broadcasting.
Two program modules were included in the
remote control system in the final stage of
the ventilation upgrade effort:
• use of ventilation in normal mode, based
on predictive mathematical model and
fuzzy logic,
• use of ventilation in emergency (fire) mode.
Učka Tunnel ventilation system
The ventilation system used at Učka Tunnel
is of longitudinal type, and is formed of 144
fans divided into 48 fan groups. Each group
contains three engines (fans) that are suspended from the tunnel vault. The fans are
unidirectional i.e. they always operate in
one direction (reverse operation is impossible). They are arranged in such a way that
some groups act in one direction (groups 1,
3, 5 ..., 47 - towards Istria), while the other
groups act in the other direction.
Fan groups are not evenly distributed along
the tunnel tube length, i.e. they are grouped
towards the tunnel ends, so that the central
part of the tunnel is not equipped with fans.
The ventilation is remotely operated from
the control centre although in case of emergency, or during routine maintenance operations, the fans can also be operated via the
local switchboard.
Mathematical model for ventilation management
Tunnels are especially susceptible to pollution generated by vehicles powered by
internal combustion engines. The following pollutants are most frequently encountered: carbon monoxide (CO), solid particles and nitric oxides (NOx).
• Natural ventilation is in most cases insufficient, which is why mechanical ventilation systems must be installed in tunnels
so as to keep pollution levels within allowable limits.
• Besides lowering the level of pollution,
the mechanical system also prevents
spreading of fire and participates in fire
combating in emergency situations.
•A
special case is the regulation of air movement speed in order to increase safety during normal operation (e.g. regulation of air
movement speed during transport of dangerous substances under conditions notable natural air circulation, i.e. bora wind).
Most present day tunnels (depending on tunnel length, traffic density and other parameters) feature mechanical ventilation systems
which may broadly be divided into two major
types - longitudinal and transverse. The ventilation is operated from the control centre
using the remote control system. In general
terms, the regulation of ventilation, i.e. the
start-up or shutdown of individual fans, or
regulation of fan power via engine controllers, can be operated either “manually” (by
operator working in the control centre) or
using the program module for automatic operation of the ventilation system.
The “traditional” system of automatic regulation takes into account the concentration of
pollution, i.e. the level of pollution, through
measurement of carbon monoxide (CO) levels, transparency (“visibility”), and nitric
oxide (NOx) concentration. The advanced
algorithm based on predictive mathematical model and fuzzy logic takes into account
the tunnel constants (shape, cross-section,
difference in level between the two portals,
etc.), momentary weather conditions (pressure, temperature, wind speed and direction), and instantaneous traffic situation (direction and density of traffic, vehicle speed
and category). The mathematical modelling
enables prediction of both pollution level
and fresh air requirement, which is why it is
more favourable when compared to the “traditional” automatic regulation algorithm.
During operation based on mathematical
model, a smaller number of fans is in operation, and so a lower peak velocity of air
circulation is achieved, which is particularly
advantageous in case of accidents (fire) as
in such situation it will be possible to switch
more rapidly to the low air circulation mode
which is required to achieve stratification of
smoke in the tunnel.
Mathematical model implementation at
Učka Tunnel
The design and implementation of the mathematical model-based ventilation started in
2005 in the scope of the remote operation
system upgrade conducted at the company
EXOR. In May 2010, this part of the task was
transferred to and conducted by the company ABB. In late 2009, following upgrade of
ventilation switchboards, all preconditions
were met and the system was placed in initial operation in December of the same year.
During initial operation and first year of
use of the mathematical model-operated
ventilation at Učka Tunnel, it has been demonstrated that all requirements have been
met, with an increase in energy efficiency
and with significant savings in electricity
(600,000 kWh - EUR 43,978).
Conclusion
The system involving automated operation of ventilation in the normal regimen
of operation, as based on predictive mathematical model and fuzzy logic, was put
into operation at Učka Tunnel in late 2009.
In addition to CO concentration levels and
visibility, input parameters used by the
model also include instantaneous weather
information (air pressure), and instantaneous traffic situation (direction and density
of traffic and vehicle category). The mathematical model is capable of predicting
pollution levels, and is hence more advantageous when compared to the “traditional”
logarithm with automatic regulation. As a
result of mathematical model use, pollution levels can be kept within defined limits,
the number of start-ups and shutdowns of
fans is reduced, which extends the life of
the fans and electrical installations, lowers
maintenance costs, and increases safety of
the ventilation system. Significant savings
in electricity have also been achieved, and
energy efficiency has been improved.
HRVATSKA UDRUGA KONCESIONARA ZA AUTOCESTE S NAPLATOM CESTARINE / CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF TOLL MOTORWAYS CONCESSIONAIRES
NEWSLETTER 21, APRIL 2011
HUKA holds a Round Table on Traffic Safety on Motorways
A round table on traffic safety on motorways was held in Zagreb on 15th December
2010 at the initiative of Croatian Association
of Toll Motorways Concessionaries whose
member include all motorway operators
in the Republic of Croatia: Hrvatske Autoceste, Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb, BinaIstra, Autocesta Zagreb – Macelj ltd.
All invited institutions participated at the
conference: the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure – Directorate for
Road Transport and Road Transport Inspection, The Ministry of the Interior – Road
Traffic Department, Croatian Roads Authority, Croatian Automobile Club, and all
motorway operators.
The conference was brought on as a direct
consequence of the new proposal of Public Roads Act and the passing of new Road
Traffic Safety Act.
As safety implies many things, so the discussion at the conference primarily focused
on motorway management and maintenance as one of the elements of traffic safety. Through safety programmes motorway
operators take numerous measures in order to make sure that infrastructure would
function as planned and to minimize the
number of traffic accidents.
Need for common safety actions
Therefore the motorway operators urged
for a course of action to be taken by other
institutions in those areas which lie outside
operators’ jurisdiction: in phase of design
and construction of motorway practical
experience of operators should be taken
into consideration; level of education in
driving schools should be improved; level
of awareness among drivers through campaigns should be raised; regular controls
and sanctioning of speeding should be intensified; drivers should become aware of
their own responsibility for their lives.
The motorway network in Croatia has undergone a process of intense development
in the last ten years. The motorway network
has almost entirely been developed based
on road and traffic safety law and technical
regulations from the 1990s. Motorway operators have gained first-hand experience
through daily operations and have perceived certain issues which are not possible
to solve through everyday management and
maintenance as they lie beyond their jurisdiction. At the conference motorway operators have informed the proper ministries
and institutions about their experiences so
that during the defining of law and by-law
regulations the aforementioned experience
could be implemented in accordance with
the actual requirements.
A Committee for Conclusion Compilation
has been appointed including all members of HUKA’s Technical Committee for
safety and traffic (Željko Kadijević – HAC,
Ante Pribanić – ARZ, Tomislav Ladavac –
BINA-ISTRA, Nikola Bulić – AZM) along
with Brankica Bajić i Diana Benković from
HUKA.
Conclusions of the Conference
Based on the discussion of all present
members the Committee have reached the
following conclusions:
• it is necessary to adopt subordinate regulations immediately or within the maximum legal deadline as they are crucial for
the motorway operators’ activities. Most of
the regulations are either obsolete or nonexistent and this especially applies to:
- Regulation on the basic requirements to
be met by the public roads outside and its
elements from traffic safety perspective
- Road maintenance and road safety regulation
- Regulations and technical conditions for
public road patrolling
- Regulation of traffic signs, equipment
and road signals and other regulations
related to the new draft of Public Road
Act related to traffic and environment,
• w hile defining motorways and national
roads network in relation to and implementation of the new Public Roads Act,
motorway alternative routes need to be
taken into consideration as it is one of the
primary goals also defined by Transport
Development Strategy,
• motorways operators are to be involved
in the execution of subordinated regulations, as their concrete suggestions and
proposals from work experience will
make a contribution,
• coordinate the activities of certain institutions which are in charge of road safety
(Ministry of Transport, Road Inspection,
Ministry of Interior, Croatian Roads Authority),
•e
nsure more frequent and regular control
of compliance of drivers’ compliance with
Road Act on motorways,
•n
ot to require for the motorway operators to correct eventual omissions made
in the stage of construction and planning
of motorways which do not fall under the
regular maintenance domain,
• improve prevention, education and raise
the level of driving culture through all education levels, especially in driving-schools,
•o
n HUKA level define type solutions to
standard details on motorways and undertake legalization of such solutions through
proper ministries in order to serve as
guidelines for future motorway planning
•g
radually make the protective fence on
existing motorways compliant with required safety standards (H2, H3, H4),
• c ontinue the preparations and accelerate
the implementation of speed controlling
system on motorways, which would reduce
the average driving speed and therefore
reduce the number of car accidents several fold, especially their consequences,
•o
n HUKA level check and gradually coordinate methodology related to collection and
analysis of data on car accidents which is
implemented among HUKA members
• all the participants are expected to promote and support the conclusions of this
conference.
Read more on www.huka.hr
Source: HUKA, National reports 2005 - 2010
HRVATSKA UDRUGA KONCESIONARA ZA AUTOCESTE S NAPLATOM CESTARINE / CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF TOLL MOTORWAYS CONCESSIONAIRES
NEWSLETTER 21, APRIL 2011
Fourth ASECAP Road Safety Event held in Athens
On Tuesday 1st March 2011 the Greek National Road Fund (TEO) and ASECAP jointly
organised in Athens the fourth edition of
a high-level conference dedicated to road
safety. Having in mind the European Commission’s Policy Orientations on Road
Safety for the period 2011-2020, this major event was a unique opportunity for all
key actors from all over Europe, ranging
from experts in the field to national and
European decision-makers, to discuss
about the contribution that toll roads and
the concession model are making and will
continue to make to the creation of a common European road safety area. Besides
ASEAP members, representatives from
the European Commission, European Parliament and various Educational Institutions from Greece made their contribution
to the event.
Toll revenues for safer infrastructure
EC Director Mr Enrico GRILLO PASQUARELLI said that “ASECAP members
are putting road safety in practice in their
daily operations”. He added that PPP and
earmarking of the revenues collected
through road charging are the best models
to further invest in safe infrastructures.
He also stressed there is still a lot of room
for improvement of road safety especially
in domain of national roads and rural roads
where the highest percent of accidents occur and where the investments are most
needed. He also pointed out that EU funds
will only be available for building of infrastructure in compliance with the EU Eurovignette Directive and Directive on Road
Tunnel Safety. These principles should
also apply to other roads and not just the
TEN-T network.
Long term goal of 0 fatalities by 2050
Conference evidenced that toll motorways are significantly safer compared
to the secondary roads and enabled exchange of the best practices regarding
safety campaigns and technical improvements. Inés AYALA SENDER, Member
of the European Parliament highlighted
that ASECAP members could contribute
to reach a common definition of injuries
and, subsequently, a specific target to
reduce them, by sharing their expertise
and the information at their disposal. She
underlined that there is a great need for
increasing all control systems (cameras,
alcohol and drug tests, availability of information to drivers). EU Transport Committee will soon set an Action Plan with
a calendar, framework for evaluation of
every safety action and all other needed
for reaching the main goal of halving fatalities and a long term goal of 0 fatalities
by 2050.
Collection of reliable data on accidents is
necessary for defining targets
In this regard, Kallistratos Dionelis
stressed out that the point is not where to
go but how to go there, and for this tools
like action plans and cost benefit analysis are needed. One of the main issues for
the policy makers are the data given and
in this respect there is a strong need to
develop a way to collect reliable data that
could be interpreted commonly and be
distributed to users. Presented speakers
also underlined the need of governments
to include road safety as the first priority
and invest money, need to take on board
all stakeholders and for us to be human
beings with ethics.
Main causes of accidents on motorways
and corresponding awareness campaigns
Examples of road safety campaigns included the speakers from ASFA (France),
ASFINAG (Austria), APCAP (Portugal)
and various institutions from Greece who
presented their facts and figures in this
area and ways of trying to improve them.
Main causes of accidents were presented:
sleepiness and drowsiness, alcohol, drugs
and medications and speeding. Those are
followed by failure to attach seat belts,
failure to comply with weather conditions
and tunnel safety requirements as well as
by many other causes. Measures that are
undertaken to raise drivers awareness
include posters, dedicated motorway radio with safety information in real time,
encouraging people to have a break and
relax when tired or sleepy etc.
ITS actions for road safety
The ASECAP COPER III chairman Rui Camolino presented the latest ITS actions in Road
Safety developments where the Easyway
project, involving 27 EU Member States and
3 other European countries to address the
major EU transport objectives and harmonise the deployment of ITS, also plays a significant role. EasyWay chairman Adams presented the project and its strategic targets:
•a
voiding congestion (25 % reduction on
the TERN by 2020)
• r oad safety (25 % reduction in fatalities
and severe injuries on the TERN by 2020)
•p
rotecting the environment (10 % reduction in CO2 by 2020).
Easyway 2 was launched on 1st of January
2011 based on the Action Plan and Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on the
framework for the deployment of ITS .
ASECAP Road Safety Event showed once
again the importance and success of the
conference.
HUKA and its members will continue to
support and contribute to such events also
in the future.
More details on the event are available on
www.huka.hr .
HRVATSKA UDRUGA KONCESIONARA ZA AUTOCESTE S NAPLATOM CESTARINE / CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF TOLL MOTORWAYS CONCESSIONAIRES
NEWSLETTER 21, APRIL 2011
Seminar on toll systems in ASECAP member countries
The ASECAP Permanent Technical Committee for tolling (COPER I) on 4th February 2011
organized, in concert with the Association of
French Motorway Companies (ASFA), a seminar in Paris under the theme of “Concession
tolling and user charging in ASECAP world”.
The seminar was attended by some thirty
participants from 13 ASECAP member countries. HUKA’s delegation was composed of
President M. Škrgatić and Vice-President A.
Čaklović as well as coordinator B. Bajić. The
main objective of this seminar was to present
and exchange information about toll systems and policies applied in member countries as to allow better insight into systems
and their administrative-contractual frameworks. A special emphasis was placed on the
concessions and PPP projects, and status
of national legislations in relation to the so
called Eurovignette Directive 2006/38/EC on
charging of trucks and Directive 2004/52/EC
on interoperability of ETS.
According to the Eurovignette Directive, the
EU countries are allowed to charge fee, within their national networks, for the use of road
infrastructure, especially for trucks. Thus a
number of countries will get, in addition to
the concession toll, new tolling systems run
Visit to ASFINAG
In order to further strengthen and expand
our bilateral cooperation on February 17th
2011 HUKA paid visit to the Austrian concessionaire ASFINAG. Its member of Management Board, Klaus Schierhackl and
his colleague Julia Huber organised once
again an excellent and fruitful visit. In the
Croatian delegation there were HUKA’s
President Miro Škrgatić, Vice-President
Aleksandar Čaklović and Deputy Coordinator Diana Benković. From Autocesta
Rijeka-Zagreb visit was attended by Ante
Pribanić, Director of Operation and Maintenance Branch and Zrinka Drozdek.
Update of the existing 25 years old tunnels
We visited Tunnel Control Centre Bruck
in Styria, 50 km from Graz, which currently monitors 15 tunnel facilities, combined length of 42,5 km and also some fast
roads, including associated emergency
telephones, ice warning system and winter service. Most tunnels in this monitoring area are between 25 and 30 years old.
The majority of them have been renovated
and updated with state-of-the-art technical installations. Three tunnel facilities are
currently under renovation and will benefit
from the same technical installations in 1
to 2 years.
by the states. The revenues will not have to
be reinvested in roads, but to railways and
other modes of transport.
Current status and future plans
All members including HUKA gave presentations of their toll networks, toll collection
models, the existing PPP projects and motorway concessions, principle of risk sharing between the concessionaire and grantor,
and plans of national ministries regarding
the Eurovignette Directive. In the context of
the global economic crisis, the traffic and
revenue data were presented for the past
three years showing that the situation is improving and traffic is again on the increase.
Presentations given during the seminar
have shown the diversity of the toll systems
between EU countries and also the diversity
in treatment given to individual parts of the
road network.
In his closing address, General Secretary
of ASECAP, Kallistratos Dionelis, emphasized that great challenges will be facing European private concessionaires in
future years, as it will be very difficult to
attract private investors to concession
projects, if governments fail to guarantee
Video wall control of tunnels
The TCC is equipped with a video wall with
approximately 480 camera pictures, not all
of which can be over plugged, and presents
an overview of all tunnels and the current
traffic situation. For all cameras without
a gyroscopic or tilt function an automatic
alarm is set off if a slow-moving or stationary vehicle, a wrong-way driver or smoke
is detected in the area covered. The control
station is operated by two men working in a
three-shift rhythm. As of May this year additional monitoring station will be integrated:
Gleinalm Tunnel, (8,3 km and two-way traffic) and Schartnerkogel Tunnel (1,2 km).
Further on we made an on-site visit to Tunnel Gleinalm and TS Gleinalm where the
staff presented traffic and financial data.
Latest safety innovations - project AKUT
ASFINAG places a great deal of importance
on research and development as the goal of
the company is to rank among leading motorway operators in Europe in road availability, information and safety. One of the
novelties presented to us was the operation
and construction project AKUT (acoustic
tunnel monitoring) focused on the development of a system to detect critical incidents
in tunnels by automatically monitoring unusual sounds, such as collisions, loads falling
from trucks, etc.
a certain level of traffic (up to 80 % should
be guaranteed for). In addition, it will not
be possible to achieve balance and sustainability of projects if concessionaires
have to assume the risk of land purchase.
The stability of concession agreements
is essential for concession projects and
unilateral changes should not jeopardise
their balance. The General Secretary considers that more and more mega public
companies will appear as road/motorway
operators if application of the Eurovignette
Directive, by national public companies,
proves to be successful. He also added
that ETC devices will probably become a
standard on board equipment in the years
to come. The cashless payment is also expected to be increasingly present in the
payment of fees for the use of roads.
Therefore ASECAP should promote its
knowledge and experience throughout the
professional community and general public, in order to pave the way towards proper
and efficient operation and maintenance of
motorways. To this end, ASECAP should
draft a statement explaining the global context for management of toll road infrastructure. Read more on www.huka.hr.
Platform for cleaning of snow and ice
Another, very interesting novelty from
ASFINAG was a newly designed and constructed platform installed at lay-by just
before entering the tunnel. The platform
enables the drivers of trucks to climb at
the top of the vehicle and clean the remaining of ice and snow. Platform was
designed and installed to increase safety
and diminish death accidents. Statistic
showed that 1 to 2 fatalities per year were
due to falling of ice and snow from the top
of trucks in tunnels. In future, the plan is
to install these platforms before entering
the tunnels on the whole network, wherever it is possible.
The next day we visited the Graz Raaba
headquarters and traffic control place
Strass where we came just in time for police inspection of trucks overload and then
we continued our way back to Zagreb.
We thank our friends from ASFINAG for the
great organization and welcome and are
looking forward to future collaborations.
Read more on www.huka.hr .
HRVATSKA UDRUGA KONCESIONARA ZA AUTOCESTE S NAPLATOM CESTARINE / CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF TOLL MOTORWAYS CONCESSIONAIRES
NEWSLETTER 21, APRIL 2011
Statistical data
TRAFFIC
NUMBER OF VEHICLES ON TOLL PLAZAS
Until the end of March 2010
Company
Light vehicles
(IA, I i II)
Heavy vehicles
(III i IV)
HAC
4,969,128
795,155
ARZ
1,853,103
Until the end of March 2011
%
(11/10)
Light vehicles
(IA, I i II)
Heavy vehicles
(III i IV)
5,764,283
5,092,371
850,073
5,942,444
3.09
282,622
2,135,725
1,962,070
295,482
2,257,552
5.70
594,312
78,307
672,619
963,937
116,184
1,080,121
*60.58
AZM
1,008,231
127,907
1,136,138
962,045
124,918
1,086,963
-4.33
TOTAL
8,424,774
1,283,991
9,708,765
8,980,423
1,386,657
10,367,080
6.78
BINA-ISTRA
Total
Total
* Data for year 2011 include also newly open section Kanfanar - Pula wich was not in service last year.
TOLL REVENUES (without VAT)
1EUR = 7,39 HRK
Until the end of March 2010
Tvrtka
HRK
Until the end of March 2011
EUR
**HRK
EUR
%
(11/10)
HAC
197,000,131.58
26,657,663.27
201,963,178.37
27,329,252.82
2.52
ARZ
68,563,598.02
9,277,888.77
68,902,751.82
9,323,782.38
0.49
BINA-ISTRA
19,620,666.00
2,655,029.23
23,885,936.03
3,232,197.03
***21.74
AZM
28,567,584.12
3,865,708.27
27,676,848.50
3,745,175.71
-3.12
313,751,979.72
42,456,289.54
322,428,714.72
43,630,407.95
2.77
TOTAL
** Data on revenues are subject to minor changes since all data for March 2011 have not yet been accounted. Accounting will be completed end-April.
*** Data for year 2011 include also newly open section Kanfanar - Pula wich was not in service last year.
TRAFFIC SAFETY
Number of traffic
accidents:
Until the end of March 2011
HAC
ARZ
2
0
1
1
4
33
8
0
1
42
- with material damage
266
73
14
11
364
TOTAL number of
accidents
301
81
15
13
410
2
0
1
1
4
- with fatal casualties
- with injuries
TOTAL number of deaths
in fatal accidents
BINA-ISTRA
AZM
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