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Norfolk County Council |
Summary
At the core of the Norfolk CDMF is a fully automated city-wide parking guidance system which integrates several existing and independent car park management systems, hosted from our Glasgow data centre, while also providing real time traffic congestion and roadwork information as well as integrated fault management.
Emerging from a system delivered in 3-weeks to solve an immediate Christmas Car Parking information requirement, the Norfolk County Council CDMF now provides a fully integrated Car Park Guidance solution for the City of Norwich, integrating County Council Park & Ride and City Council car parks, as well as several privately owned car park management systems, providing consolidated car parking availability for the City.
Car Park information is made available to the public via a Mott MacDonald hosted, publicly accessible, national website at www.Help2Park.com.
The Norfolk CDMF, hosted from our data centre in Glasgow, continues to be developed and currently presents a consolidated view of car parking, equipment faults and SCOOT congestion. It also provides a suite of tools to manage assets, faults and develop network strategies.
The system also has a bi-directional interface with ELGIN and allows the transfer of the latest event and roadwork information.
Key Features
Norfolk CDMF incorporates:
- The CDMF Sign Data Display Application which automatically displays predicted data on signs in the event that real-time data is not available
- Intelligent UTMC car park adapters communicating with existing car park management systems and using low revenue Internet dial up to transmit count data to the CDMF
- An interface to a Dambach VMS system incorporating radio controlled variable message signs and counting loops at Park and Ride sites
- A managed Bureau server hosted in our Glasgow data centre. The server hardware and software is automatically monitored by Mott MacDonald developed utilities and is located in an air conditioned area with uninterruptible power supply
- A public information web site – www.Help2parK.com - shared by 2 other local authorities
- Common Database Viewers located in the Norwich control room alongside the main UTC terminals
- A Rail interface feeding data into CDMF and driving a train information screen in Norwich bus station (coming soon)
System Architecture
The Norfolk UTC is:
- Helping to Relieve parking congestion in Norwich by allowing drivers to make better informed choices through the display of car parking spaces on signs around the town.
- Providing parking information to the public on www.Help2parK.com
- Offering UTC operators a consolidated view of city centre / park and ride parking, congestion, signal faults and rail information on their Common Database Viewer