ITS FOR BEIRUT METROPOLITAN AREA

Lebanon will soon be embarking on a major traffic infrastructure project, expected to receive World Bank funding. The Urban Transport Development Project (UTDP) encompasses equipping some 200 intersections with traffic signals, installing 40 CCTV cameras for surveillance along four corridors, and a traffic control system hosted in a traffic control center that oversees the system management and operation. The paper describes the preparatory studies leading to the formulation of the project. The main features of the proposed hardware and software are characterized, explaining the various system components. It also identifies the expected benefits, economically and environmentally, and concludes that ITS deployment was a necessary prologue to more capital-intensive projects in mass transit and expressway construction.

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• Authors:
  • NAKKASH, T
  • EL ZARIF, J
• Conference:
  • 9th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Date: 2002-10-14 to 2002-10-17
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 13p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cameras; Closed circuit television; Corridors; Deployment; Development; Expressways; Infrastructure; Intelligent transportation systems; Rail transit; Traffic control centers; Traffic surveillance; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Lebanon
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00960185
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 2003 12:00AM