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The City of Edinburgh Council |
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Summary
In September 2006, the City of Edinburgh Council awarded the Route and Car Park Guidance (RCPG) contract to Mott MacDonald, with its supply chain TechSpan and IDT. The project has been funded through the SESTRAN (South East of Scotland Transport) Partnership. The R&CPG system has 20 car park information signs within the historic City of Edinburgh plus 11 strategic message signs across the Edinburgh area. CDMF provides the operations and control centre with facilities for automatic and manual sign setting.
GPRS Communications is used to exchange commands and data with the new UTMC compliant devices on street, with CDMF adaptors being used to capture real-time occupancy data from the legacy car park systems. This has delivered a full end-to-end UTMC system with support for legacy systems.
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CEC has recently installed a journey time system from Computer Recognition Systems (CRS). This will interface to CDMF and the journey time data used to monitor the network and trigger strategies.
We have also commissioned web services which deliver real time car park occupancy, events and roadworks to the public.
Key Features
The initial version of the Route and Car park Guidance System will include:
- A CDMF based control suite incorporating the following components:
- Accident, Event, Incident and Roadworks Management
- Car Park Management
- Strategic VMS Management
- Strategy Integration
- Fault Management
- Asset Management
- Car Park Queue Detection
- A public web-site, based on GoogleTM-Maps, providing Car Park, VMS, Accident, Event, Incident and Roadworks information
- Interface Adaptors to legacy Car Park Systems
- A common database adhering to the UTMC V2 standard
Future versions could include:
- More Interfaces to other Car Park Systems in Edinburgh and the surrounding area
- An Interface with TrafficScotland to allow dual-control of Strategic VMS
- An interface to the ANPR system
- An interface to the UTC System
- Interfaces to Traffic Counter Systems
System Architecture
The system makes use of GPRS and HTTP to communicate with devices outside the control room.
The interfaces with VMS and Car Park queue monitoring devices adhere to the UTMC V2 standard.
A restricted area on the web-site allows Car Park Operators to access more detailed information on their car park feeds.