Integrated working is key theme at York conference

Date: 14/9/2009

Source: Traffic Engineering and Control, July 2009, pg. 303-304

The 2009 ITS (UK) Summer Conference was held in York on 4 June. The conference “Better Transport through Technology” involved a number of presentations about how UTMC (Urban Traffic Management and Control) Common Databases are being used to trigger interventions, develop strategy and provide information to end users, across boundaries and between highway authorities, both urban and inter-urban.

For example, in Devon, information on extreme weather conditions is being integrated into the overall decision making process and VMS warnings are being deployed where appropriate. A common database is being used in Warrington to monitor traffic flows against historical data and propose potential VMS plans where necessary.

Several other presentations were made during the conference describing how UTMC common databases were being integrated into authorities’ traffic management processes.

Key words: Traffic centre, Traffic management