The implementation of integrated traffic control and informatics in Belfast

Author

Fraser, G.P. ; Maxwell, R.B.

Author_Institution

Roads Service, Dept. of the Environ. for Northern Ireland, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

26-28 Apr 1994

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

28

Abstract

A major new motorway bridge and associated roadworks is being constructed across the River Lagan in Belfast to add to the 3 existing city centre bridges. However, its close proximity to the city centre will result in considerable interaction between vehicles on the motorway and traffic in the city centre streets. The article describes the development of a traffic control system having: a composite control system; data communications; message signs; automatic incident detection and ramp control; control room terminals operating with both the urban system and the motorway system; congestion analysis; CCTV surveillance; and motorway emergency telephones

Keywords

computerised monitoring; road traffic; traffic control; traffic information systems; Belfast; CCTV surveillance; Northern Ireland; River Lagan; UK; Ulster; automatic incident detection; automatic ramp control; composite control system; congestion analysis; control room terminals; data communications; integrated traffic control; message signs; motorway bridge; motorway emergency telephones; roadworks; traffic informatics; urban traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Road Traffic Monitoring and Control, 1994., Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:19940417

Filename

385814