Tender process for the local public transport service in the Padua area
Padua, Italy

MIC-HUB provided specialist technical assistance in the tender process for the local public transport service in the Padua area, supporting the authority in the strategic planning and bus infrastructure design phases.
Key activities included:
• Socio-economic and transport modelling analyses to support the definition of a new public transport network, with the aim of improving its use, efficiency, and coverage;
• Design of bus stop upgrades to improve accessibility, safety and comfort for users. The team also prepared the economic framework required for the implementation and budgeting of the interventions.
Location
Padua, Italy
Client
Busitalia Veneto S.p.A.
Main expertise
Regional & Urban Transport Planning; Transport and Traffic Modelling; Public Transport Operations; Transport Economics
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
- Traffic model
- Quantification of the required fleet
- Identification of storage areas
- Drafting of a bus operations plan
- Design of bus stop areas
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Our contribution
MIC-HUB responded to the technical requirements of the tender for local Public Transport in the Padua Area by articulating integrated lines of action, combining strategic planning, data analysis, and infrastructure evaluation.
The first line of action involved the team defining potential transport demand. Activities included:
• A socio-economic analysis of the area to evaluate the explicit and potential demand context;
• Defining a large-scale field data collection plan involving over 160,000 ground surveys, 24,500 on-board bus interviews and 7,000 CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing) interviews to assess potential demand.
The second line of action centred on the construction and calibration of a traffic model, which was essential for validating the efficiency and configuration of the proposed new network. This model enabled alternative scenarios to be simulated and the service to be optimised in terms of supply and accessibility.
Lastly, MIC-HUB surveyed the infrastructure assets to assess the condition of the equipment at the 3,200 stops in the area. Based on this data, project hypotheses were drawn up to improve the infrastructure, along with an economic framework and intervention priorities.
This part of the work applied a multi-criteria analysis to create a robust decision-support tool for the local authority.