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West Sussex County Council |
Summary
For West Sussex County Council, we delivered our first UTMC v2 compliant Common Database Management Facility (CDMF), to link standalone ITS systems and provide a more integrated environment for improving traffic management operations.
The West Sussex project was commissioned as part of an ITS strategy to meet the transportation management needs of the County, centred around new control centre facilities in Chichester.
The Common Database consolidates data from standalone ITS systems to improve the management of the transport network and to facilitate the dissemination of reliable traffic and travel information to both internal and external stakeholders.
The Common Data Viewer (CDV) acts as the user front end for the whole suite of ITS services. Operators have access to data input facilities from the Control Room in Chichester as well as a number of regional offices around the county.
The public access website (westsussex.cdmf.info) publishes a subset of the data in the Common Database to inform the travelling public and aid journey planning.
Recent additions to the public website include:
- A latest news facility to highlight important travel-related news
- Car Park occupancy trends and prediction data
- Bus Stops, Park & Ride sites, Train Stations and Airports
- Cycle Routes
Key Features
In addition to the standard CDMF features, the West Sussex UTMC Common Database incorporates:
- UTMC v2 compliance
- A public-facing website based around Google Maps technology that publishes selected traffic restrictions, real-time and predicted car park occupancy information and information on cycle routes, park & rides, train stations, bus stops and airports
- Common Data Viewers located in the Chichester Traffic Information Control Centre and at regional offices around the County
- Detailed mapping in the Common Data Viewer provided by the Ordnance Survey Mastermap dataset
- An interface to three UTMC-compliant Dambach Parking Guidance Systems, providing real-time car park occupancy information
- An interface to an ACIS RTPI system, providing real-time bus stop information
- Streetworks information supplied via a Confirm interface
- Publication of selected information to public screen kiosks
- A comprehensive reporting and analysis system based around Crystal Reports
System Architecture
- UTMC v2 compliant Common Database System
- Windows and Linux Server Architecture
- Real-Time Car Park Occupancy data is collected from three separate Parking Guidance Systems
- A Real-Time Bus Data feed captures departure information from an RTPI system
- Information about Planned and Unplanned traffic restrictions are provided by Operators around the County and a Confirm Streetworks system
- Selected traffic restriction information and Real-Time Car Park Occupancy data is published on a public-facing website