EU ITISS Intermodal Traveller Information Systems Project
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EU ITISS (Intermodal Traveller Information Systems) Project
South Dublin County Council along with Dublin Bus and Interactions Ltd are the Irish partners in a European project aimed at integrating existing travel and transport information systems and sources. The project aims to address current deficiencies in providing reliable public transport information and multi-modal integration, together with congestion and inefficient road space usage. Providing improved travel information, and better coordination of this information would lead to significant improvements in journey time planning for transport professionals, operators and individual end-users. While existing travel and transport information systems/sources tend to be unitary and are rarely linked to other modes, ITISS plans to integrate the various systems and sources into a multi-modal platform for further dissemination via new channels within a common and compatible framework, with a particular focus on location-specific information through multimedia and mobile devices.
The main focus in South Dublin will be twofold:
· Development and implementation of an Automatic Number Plate Recognition System (ANPR) to be piloted initially on 3 National Radial Routes, with future expansion to additional routes (radial and orbital) and to other local authorities within the Greater Dublin Area and beyond. The system will facilitate journey time analysis and establish origin-destination patterns.
· Development and expansion of South Dublin County Council’s Traffic Management Centre, including switchover to broadband (Video over IP) to provide a wide range of travel and traffic information to individual users through web-site and local information point access. Initially, this will include camera images and traffic volumes/congestion data (real-time and historic) from an expanded network of CCTV monitors, automatic traffic counters and remote monitoring stations, ANPR-based information and road works data, as well as linked to the Council’s ROADMAP and MO BHAILE sites. Further applications which it is hoped to develop include links to timetable information from Luas, Dublin Bus and other transport operators, and VMS (variable message sign) and Park & Ride operations.
The ITISS project offers SDCC the opportunity to develop and implement diverse applications in terms of traffic management, roads design & planning, public & collective transport promotion & design, public information and transport mode integration. In addition, the ANPR project will provide valuable data to the SDCC Traffic Management Centre without need for complex GPS systems or driver cooperation/vehicle interventions, while the development of Broadband (Video over IP) applications will enable information to be collected and disseminated to individual and professional end-users in a cost- and capacity-effective manner.
South Dublin County Council is hosting a Technical Meeting, which brings together the European partners collaborating on the project on 8th March next to progress the technical issues and advance the project to the next stage. The attendance will include representatives from Pays de Loire (France), Cologne (Germany), The Hague (Netherlands) and Manchester (U.K.) in addition to the Irish partners, South Dublin County Council and Dublin Bus.