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MATTISSE |
Summary
Mott MacDonald has delivered multi-modal traffic and travel information in the West Midlands via desktop, website, mobile phone, kiosk and public screens. The MATTISSE system serves a consortium of Local Authorities (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton).
MATTISSE manages data from sources including urban traffic control centres, police control offices, public transport operators and the Highways Agency. The first MATTISSE system went live in 1997 and was one of the first UTMC systems. Over the course of the following 5 years the system was supported and developed by Mott MacDonald.
In May 2002, M3, a joint venture of Marconi Transportation (telent) and Mott MacDonald entered a long-term Partnering Agreement with the MATTISSE Consortium, structured to drive MATTISSE to become a high profile multi-modal travel information service for the Midlands.
The system collates and distributes, for both operational and public use, many types of real-time travel information, including traffic incidents, road-works, CCTV, as well as bus and rail real-time information.
Key Features
- MATTISSE provides the travelling public with multi-modal transport information via the Help2Travel.co.uk web-site
- MATTISSE incorporates many data feeds from across the West Midlands, and caters for many different data formats and protocols
- MATTISSE also supplies real-time travel information to public screens and internet kiosks located in key public areas such as hospitals, shopping centres and universities
- MATTISSE stakeholders can share key network information including
- Traffic Events
- CCTV Images
- Real Time Rail Information
- Real Time Bus Information
System Architecture
- CCTV images are collected from a variety of data sources, including a Video Matrix switch and a restricted access web-site.
- The Real-time rail data feed captures arrival and departure data for the key main-line stations in the MATTISSE area.
- The Real-Time Bus Data feed is a recent feature brought on-line for key routes in the Birmingham area.
- Congestion data is collated from various congestions systems within the UTC centres of some local authorities.
- The Leicester TIS-DB system is another CDMF based system which exchanges data with MATTISSE via a standard UTMC interface.
- The West Midlands Police Command & Control Centre feeds MATTISSE with traffic related police incidents in real-time.
- The Highways Agency interface captures Motorway events and VMS sign settings from the real-time HA system.