The High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh (HCDA) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has established a control and monitoring room as part of its road project to monitor all systems within the project and provide up to date status.
The control room, which joins the extensions of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Road and Oruba Road across Riyadh airbase, includes advanced traffic management systems to monitor the city’s main roads which are equipped with 22 variable message signs, 161 regulatory speed signs and automati
Intentions of mutual cooperation have been pledged in the form of memoranda of understanding (MoU) signed in Vienna this week by ITS associations of Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, UK and others. ITS Australia, for instance, has signed two MoU, with ITS Canada and the Czech & Slovak Intelligent Transport Systems & Services. A new ITS association has been established for Nigeria, with support from ITS (UK) and launched this week at the signing of an MoU between ITS (UK) and ITS Nigeria, which has also
EarthSense is working in the UK with Coventry City Council to divert traffic away from heavily congested roads and pollution hotspots.
EarthSense’s air quality sensors are located in areas of the city where levels of nitrogen dioxide have been identified as high; particularly along the A4600 route at Walsgrave Road – a major link in and out of Coventry.
When pollution levels are breached, the sensors send alerts to the urban traffic management centre where they trigger messaging on variable message s
With traffic management centres handling ever-increasing volumes of data and video feeds to monitor and manage the flow of traffic, the efficient visual representation of this information has never been more vital.
