Skip to main content

Indra implements ITS technology on Mexico’s Guadalajara-Tepic motorways

The leading road concessionaire in Mexico, Ideal, has awarded Spanish multinational Indra a US$21.67 million contract for implementing its technology in the three motorways that make up what is known as Mexico's South Pacific Package for the amount of €17 million. The project consists of implementing the ITS as well as the tolls and electronic tolls on the motorway that connects the cities of Tepic and Guadalajara, the second most important in Mexico, as well as in the beltways of both cities.
May 22, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
RSSThe leading road concessionaire in Mexico, Ideal, has awarded Spanish multinational 509 Indra a US$21.67 million contract for implementing its technology in the three motorways that make up what is known as Mexico's South Pacific Package for the amount of €17 million.

The project consists of implementing the ITS as well as the tolls and electronic tolls on the motorway that connects the cities of Tepic and Guadalajara, the second most important in Mexico, as well as in the beltways of both cities.

Indra's intelligent traffic control technology will allow centralised and flexible management and monitoring of the three motorways, facilitating operations in a predictive manner and also programming demand in real time. A single control centre will integrate the information from the various subsystems that each motorway will be equipped with: vehicle detection and recognition systems, variable signalling that will provide drivers with information in real time, closed circuit television (CCTV), a traffic data collection system, weather stations, SOS telephony, infraction detection systems and communications.

Indra will also implement its toll and electronic toll technology in a total of 17 toll plazas and 149 lanes for manual, automatic and electronic toll collection (ETC). The ETC system will allow users to pay using a TAG device installed in their vehicle without having to stop or reduce their speed. The information from the various subsystems installed in the toll system, such as signalling, vehicle recognition, billing, communications, a backoffice system and a customer service system, will also be integrated with the control centre.

The toll for the Guadalajara-Tepic motorway (186 km) is scheduled to begin operating at the end of 2012, while the Libramiento Guadalajara (111 km) and the Libramiento Tepic (30 km) tolls will be available approximately one year later.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Indra to implement ticketing technology for new Algerian trolley line
    September 7, 2015
    Alstom Transport has awarded Indra a US$3 million contract to develop and implement the ticketing systems for the first trolley line currently under construction in the Algerian city of Setif. With a total length of 22.2 kilometres, the Setif trolley line project is being undertaken by Entreprise du Métro d’Alger (EMA), which has subcontracted the construction to Alstom Transport and the construction company Yapi Merkezi. Indra will supply ticketing systems for the 27 stations and four interchanges p
  • Road user charging potential solution to transportation problems
    December 14, 2012
    A number of new and highly significant open road tolling schemes have just been launched or are soon to ‘go live’. Systems of road user charging are flexing their muscles as the means to solve politically sensitive transportation problems, reports Jon Masters. Gothenburg, January 2013, will be the time and place for the launch of the next city congestion charging scheme in Europe. In a separate development, Los Angeles County’s tolled Metro ExpressLanes began operating in November 2012 – the latest in a ser
  • Enforcement ensures equity for toll road users
    January 25, 2018
    All-electronic tolling boosts traffic flow but introduces the tricky question of enforcement. Workable solutions are starting to emerge. Enforcement is an essential part of tolling and one of the most important ways for a mobility agency to keep faith with its investors, its community stakeholders and the vast majority of its users. It can also be one of the most unpopular and contentious things a toll authority has to undertake. If tolling is about paying for the roads, then everyone has to pay their
  • Nedap partners with Wairbut for on-street parking in Madrid
    March 11, 2015
    As part of the Pozuelo Smart City project and to improve the usage of the new and existing parking capacity in the city, Madrid in Spain has implemented a new system which reduces search traffic by guiding motorists to free parking spaces. The real-time parking data is integrated with the Smart City platform from Wairbut, a CISCO certified partner. The city is using Nedap’s parking sensors which detect parking bay occupancy in real-time. Information on current availability is transmitted to the Pozuelo Smar