HOW TO MANAGE MONTREAL'S TRAFFIC

Montreal's Freeway Traffic Management System is now nearly complete. This article describes its capabilities, and the lessons to be learned from its ten-year development. The system is implemented on a 30km corridor of four centrally located highways on the island of Montreal; the A-25, the Metropolitaine, the Decarie, and the Ville-Marie. The Metropolitaine is Montreal's most important highway, which links it to all major cities in Canada. The system uses up-to-date technology in telecommunications, road signs, and monitoring and informatics for traffic control. It operates through a continually operating control centre which (1) monitors traffic flow on the road network using automatic incident detection and closed circuit television (CCTV); (2) informs emergency services of any incident; (3) uses variable message signs (VMS) to send relevant warnings and information to drivers; (4) monitors road weather conditions; and (5) collects traffic data. The system includes 45 full video cameras, 12 slow-scan colour cameras, 170 detector stations with 1120 loops, 33 VMS, four mobile VMS, a road-weather information system, and a real-time graphics display. Its benefit-cost evaluation, measured and projected over a 15-year life cycle, is estimated as 5.5:1.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Route One Publishing Limited

  19/21 High Street
  Sutton, Surrey SM1 1DJ,   England 
• Authors:
  • SULTANA, S
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 71-2
• Serial:
  • World Highways/Routes du Monde
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: Route One Publishing Limited
  • ISSN: 0964-4598
  • Serial URL: http://www.worldhighways.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Area traffic signal control; Arterial highways; Continuous structures; Data collection; Driver information systems; Incident detection; Surveillance; Technology; Telecommunications; Traffic flow; Traffic signs; Transportation corridors; Urban areas; Variable message signs; Warning systems
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 669: Area traffic control; 8018: Canada; 9006: Continuous; 1116: Corridor (transp); 8623: Data acquisition; 1632: Incident detection; 2748: Main road; 9101: Surveillance; 3855: Technology; 9117: Telecommunication; 671: Traffic flow; 553: Traffic sign; 313: Urban area; 574: Variable message sign; 9113: Warning
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00767212
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Aug 6 1999 12:00AM