United Kingdom (coordinator) HIGHLIGHT BOOK Arc Atlantique Highlight Book List of Highlights Member Responsible State organisation Project name Page no. 4 Belgium SOFICO Monitoring of HGV traffic on the Walloon motorway network 6 DT- Basque Spain Governement Starting the use of probe vehicle data for traffic management Spain - 8 Spain SEOPAN Remote Management of the Rande Bridge 10 France APRR “SOS Autoroute” smartphone application update 12 France SANEF Operation and security equipement on Criquebeuf interchange (A13) 14 France DIRIF Ramp metering deployment on Paris peri-urban motorways 16 Ireland TII Lane Control Sign Trial at N7/M50 Approach 18 Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat Amsterdam Practical Trial, phase 2 21 Upgrade of Traffic Management and Emergency Information in Águas Portugal BCR Santas Tunnel 23 Highways M25 J5-7 Smart Motorway All Lane Running (Variable Speed Limit) UK England scheme 25 Transport Northern Migration of Urban Traffic Control communications from analogue to UK Ireland brandband (IP) 27 Transport UK Scotland Forth Replacement Crossing – Bridge ITS 29 Welsh UK Government Traffic Wales Service Website and Social Media Improvements 31 Welsh UK Government Tunnels improvement programme www.its-platform.eu Monitoring of HGV traffic on the Walloon motorway network Overview Wallonia, the Southern part of Belgium is at the centre of a very busy road network in Western Europe.Its motorways are part of 3 different European corridors. Much of the traffic consists of heavy goods vehicles which serve the major ports of the North Sea and establish links with industrial areas. Road authorities want to have an accurate knowledge of the traffic in the daily operation of the network in order to calibrate their interventions in case of disruption and to be able to better inform and guide the users. The information gathered is also needed for overall management, e.g. the operation of the toll system per kilometer for HGV and the maintenance programmation. Objectives The project aims at the implementation of new or updated detection equipement on the network and of systems for data collection and data processing. The main goal is to improve operational excellence and cost-efficiency from a road operator / traffic manager perspective. On the other hand, this implementation will also contribute to the improvement of RTTI services, especially regarding traffic conditions. The collected data will not only be used at an operational level but also for network management, e.g. control of overloaded trucks, monitoring of the use of the toll network, traffic simulations,... Project description The project also includes the acquisition and processing of The motorways of Wallonia record a very high and floating car data from HGV’s on-board units. They will be increasing traffic density, with a significant percentage of used to identify the routes taken and to analyze specific heavy goods vehicles. The road absorbs 80% of the points, included outside the motorways (transfer of traffic). transport of goods. In this context, it is important to have a This will also give the opportunity to validate the data and thorough knowledge of traffic and related parameters such see how they can be used in a complementary way with as the routes taken by heavy goods vehicles. counting loops. The project is based on the deployment of 60 bi-directional counting loop stations, which represent an infrastructure Member States involved investment aiming at completing the coverage of the network or at updating outdated stations, as well as 5 weigh-in- The management of HGV traffic requires cross-border motion stations, which will be used for the preselection of cooperation with neighbouring countries inside the Arc vehicles to be taken to static scales and later possibly for Atlantique corridor (special procedures in case of adverse issuing automatic fines for overloaded vehicles. weather conditions, planification of major road works and events) but also with others like Germany (closing of the borders). 4 www.its-platform.eu Implementation schedule Geographical Location 2015 – 2016 - Implementation of counting loop and weigh-in-motion The project is implemented on the Walloon motorways, of stations which A4 and A3 are part of the European Core Network. - Analysis of available floating car data for truck traffic 2017 - Calibration, data processing, validation of data from new stations - Integration in the operating aid system of the traffic centre Budget Action promoter: - SOFICO (motorway operator in Belgium – Wallonia) with technical support of Service public de Wallonie Project costs covered: - SOFICO will benefit from a support of 882 k€, corresponding to 20% of the investments made in the frame of Arc Atlantique 2. Walloon motorways and EU corridors Results expected These new detectors will improve knowledge of traffic levels Contact People on more than 50% of the Walloon motorways (450 km) and provide parameters such as speed, flow, type of vehicles. Philippe LEMOINE Linked to the information obtained via floating car data, they will allow to anticipate congestion and to better evaluate the from PEREX, the Walloon traffic centre consequences of an accident or of a construction site, [email protected] especially the transfer of traffic towards the secondary network. These elements are particularly sensitive in the context of the introduction of a toll for heavy goods vehicles since 1st April 2016. From the point of view of the user, PEREX will be able, on the basis of this information, to have a more precise view to take the most appropriate measures and to improve real- time information in the framework of harmonized trans- European services. Finally, the motorway manager will be able to better plan places and times where maintenance operations have to take place. 5 www.its-platform.eu Starting the use of probe vehicle data for traffic management Overview Probe Vehicle Data (PVD) is included on the list of “Day 1 Services” in the European strategy on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) COM(2016)766 final. Traffic Directorate in Basque Governement, following this European strategy for implementing C-ITS, has decided to evaluate the use of PVD for traffic management. This highlight explains the current situation of the activity, what has been done up to now, and which are the next steps. The current situation is considered as really promising as it has already integrated all the received traffic data for both realtime and historic data. Furthermore a graphic dashboard “heat maps” is able to show, in an easy way, the traffic situation (snapshot) allowing for instance, later evaluation of lost vehicle hours or other traffic magement approaches like traffic re-routing, traffic information and control. Project already started in the first phase of Arc Atlantique and it is foreseen to continue in coming years, until totally deployed and integrated with current traffic management systems. Objectives General background Basque Government started a project in the first phase of Arc Atlantique Corridor project dealing with the evaluation and calculation of vehicle lost hours for both: real time in main road network and corridor and historic vehicle lost hours in most of the road network. This project allowed the adquisition of PVD with a double purpose: To have a better knowledge of the traffic situation. To measure how traffic management measures have impact in traffic congestions. The map tool is presenting information related to accidents, congestions, road safety, average vehicle speeds and The created tool is the starting phase of this PVD project for mountain passes. the activity on traffic management strategy. As real time tool, it is clearly an important way to have a Project description good knowledge of traffic situation, where it is still to be Vehicle lost hours are obtained from aggregation of: integrated with more tradicional ITS systems. Vehicle speeds The following picture is representing the traffic impact in the Traffic intensity Basque-French border of problems in the tolling plaza in the way to Spain July 2016. In order to have information on the first parameter (vehicles speeds), it has been adquired PVD for the road network operated by Basque Government. This means that they are collected: real time vehicle speeds for around 512 kms of the main corridors, and historic vehicle speeds for more than 1745 kms of whole road network. The following picture is one example of information that is obtained, feeding in this case a « GeoTraffic » service where is possible to show real time traffic information in Basque Governement roads. 6 www.its-platform.eu Results expected Heat maps, from red which means traffic stopped to green Project must be able to provide an automatic tool to obtain in which is normal speed(see following picture), are created to near real time, the vehicle lost hours at each moment in the analyse historic traffic behaviour. Furthermore, the road main road corridor, and then to know both: operator has the possibility to see (right bottom in the traffic situations related congestions and previous picture) an overview of the corridor. The red vertical impact of the traffic management measure which column is the toll plaza where the security traffic control was are applied. deployed. Of course after vehicle lost hours are obtained it will be possible to derivate information on Cost/Benefit of the deployed C-ITS traffic management services and then having a catalogue for using each traffic management measure in each traffic circumstance. This last approach (with catalogue of traffic management actions) it will be to have some data in consecutive years. This means that it wil be necessary to compile these “heat In the previous page case, it was not related at all, with a maps” for: traffic management strategy but the picture clearly shows the impact in traffic and the possibilities of the tool for analysing several years the effect of any type of measure (in spite that this was not a several inter-related corridors traffic management measure).