Enterprise Culture

This article describes how traffic management is increasingly becoming the natural partner of the civil engineer, improving flows over existing infrastructure to deliver an alternative to laying more blacktop. As in any emerging market, the first steps towards mature traffic management have not necessarily resulted in the most efficient structure and organization as lessons are being learned during the early deployments. The challenge for today and tomorrow is to widen the geographical scope of traffic management to get more of the strategic road network under control while using the same number of operators and the same number of, or even fewer, management systems. This challenge is not particularly new; it is a necessary efficiency step to make traffic management a natural instrument of road operators and policy-makers. The first steps were taken in the last decade and in most industrialized countries like the Netherlands or the United Kingdom (UK) traffic management has already been centralized in regional Traffic Control Centers (TCCs); the UK’s Highways Agency has developed seven regional TCCs (these are termed RCCs locally), while its Dutch counterpart Rijkswaterstaat has centralized its activities in five regional TCCs. There is an ambition to concentrate resources even further and such ambitions are not constrained to the road network either, as similar developments can be seen in inland and marine navigation. In all cases, one of the primary prizes is the delivery of 24/7 services across the entire network on an affordable basis.

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  • http://www.itsinternational.com/features/article.cfm?recordID=4737
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• Authors:
  • van Koningsbruggen, Paul
  • Marples, Dave
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 54-55
• Serial:
  • ITS International
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Route One Publishing Limited
  • ISSN: 1463-6344
  • Serial URL: http://www.itsinternational.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway traffic control; Inland waterways traffic; Traffic control centers; Vessel traffic control
• Uncontrolled Terms: Regional networks
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands; United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01351625
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 14 2011 11:12AM