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Spotlight: Managed lanes
Hard Shoulder Monitoring and Managed Lanes: a Cost Effective Solution to Tackle Congestion
The world’s largest cities are experiencing ever-growing traffic and congestion problems as more and more vehicles appear on the road. Limited land availability, scarce funds, and social and environmental concerns may prevent adding new freeway lanes. The combination of these factors is forcing transportation planners and engineers to explore new ways to more effectively operate the existing transportation network.
Managed lane facilities are another way to address the growing problem of traffic congestion by increasing freeway efficiency. They use various ITS equipment including Automatic Incident Detection (AID) systems.
The Eastern Ile-de-France region around Paris is one such area that experiences recurrent and heavy traffic jams. The idea was to open the hard shoulder to allow vehicles to use it when traffic was congested as long as no breakdown or accident required reinstating the shoulder. Citilog’s AID system was key to the implementation of the system as it allows a safe operation of the shoulder, enabling detection of stranded vehicles or accidents requiring that the shoulder be closed to traffic.
The total cost of the Intelligent Shoulder project was 40 times less expensive than the alternative projects involving actual road construction. The return on investment was less than 2 years. In addition, because of the on-going use of an AID system, the return on investment will continue to blossom as future incidents and congestion are now more efficiently monitored and managed.
Events
ATEXPO
Jan 30 - 31, 2013
Espace Champerret, Paris - France
CAPURBA
Mai 28 - 30, 2013
Eurexpo, Lyon - France
News
December 21-12, 2012
Citilog launch new AID Night Vision Solution in China:
With more than 600 night vision cameras already installed, the jointly developed solution proves to be a successful new step in the development of the AID market in China. Read more
August 20-22, 2012
IRF’s Andean Highway Congress, Lima, Peru : The use of Automatic Video Incident Detection to Improve Safety in Tunnels. Read more
May, 2012
Back on the most prestigious installation of Citilog in 2011 : the automatic incident detection system inside Rebouças tunnel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In its april 2012 edition, TrafficInfraTech interviewed Rubens Borborema, head of traffic management for Rio de Janeiro, and Pierre de Champsavin, Business developement for Citilog. The success story of Citilog and its algorithm are presented, thanks to real examples inside the busiest tunnel of Brazil. Read more
March, 2012
Tunnels of Brussels
Citilog and Spie Belgium are happy to announce the win of a contract to equip all tunnels in Brussels with video and Automatic Incident Detection Read more
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February,2012
Roadtraffic Technology
Elly Earls, journalist at Roadtraffic Technology, studied in details the MediaTunnel system installed in Rebouças tunnel (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and ranks it among the top traffic surveillance technologies for 2012 ! Click here to read the article.
