| Live traffic data |
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The TMC offers the user continuous live traffic data, covering the Netherlands and especially the metropolitan area of Amsterdam.
Included data sets are travel times, speed and flow on highways. The traffic data is indicated to the viewer within a level of service (LOS) indication in the TMC. Integrated data streams are originated e.g. in the National Data Warehouse and the City of Amsterdam (Monitoring Corridors Data). |
| Strategic Routing |
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The strategic routing was taking specific traffic management strategies of the City of Amsterdam into account. Strategies are being enabled, disabled and also combined by the traffic controller with respect to the current or to the predicted traffic situation.
Routing requests are being processes within the backend and result in a routing, visualized in the web-frontend, adequate to the current traffic state or conform to the desired measure set. |
| Traffic Events and Travel Times |
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This application provides the possibility of monitoring traffic-related events such as queues, road works, accidents, etc, as well as their effects of the road network status. The information is geo-referenced and displayed in a Map View. The CVIS Dynamic Routing application and the COOPERS Traffic Control Centre application will both benefit from this TMC application. The COOPERS in-vehicle device receives the information and displays a warning advice to the driver. The CVIS Dynamic Routing application uses this information to estimate the current travel times and provide the driver with up-to-date routing information. |
| Virtual VMS |
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This application allows the TMC operator to create virtual VMS panels which can de facto substitute real VMS gentries. The operator’s interface makes it possible to compose the messages and pictograms which will be displayed on the virtual VMS. The in-vehicle device receives the information and displays it on the control panel. |
| Dynamic Routing |
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The Urban Dynamic Route Guidance (UDR) Application consists of a dynamic routing system and a graphical interface for the driver. The UDR uses a navigation system to suggest a route, applying a strategy based on both the current and predicted traffic state. This information is communicated to the driver via a PDA, which can be connected either to the on-board unit or directly to the central control system. The computation of the suggested route is based on expected traffic (historical data) and information on real-time traffic ‘events’ (congestion, accidents etc). The application can also integrate a Central Traffic Assignment system to provide a route which implements the ‘User Equilibrium’ principle. |
| Wrong-Way Driver |
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This demonstration shows how a Cooperative System application can produce a rapid and effective warning to other drivers when a vehicle is going in the wrong direction. A car travelling on a ring road is intending to take the next exit. However, another vehicle has entered the slip road by mistake and is driving in the wrong direction. If it is not stopped there is the risk of a serious collision. The presence of the wrong-way vehicle is detected by the wireless sensor network installed on the roadside barrier. Data signals are sent to the roadside unit where the SW application identifies the danger and immediately generates a set of warnings: a radio message is sent to all SAFESPOT-equipped cars in the vicinity. A VMS panel tells all approaching drivers that the exit is temporarily closed. The TMC will show the sensor status in map view and notify with a pop-up the Wrong Way Driver event. |
