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Spotlight: Managed lanes
Hard Shoulder Monitoring and Managed Lanes: a Cost Effective Solution to Tackle Congestion
The world’s largest cities are experiencing ever-growing traffic and congestion problems as more and more vehicles appear on the road. Limited land availability, scarce funds, and social and environmental concerns may prevent adding new freeway lanes. The combination of these factors is forcing transportation planners and engineers to explore new ways to more effectively operate the existing transportation network.
Managed lane facilities are another way to address the growing problem of traffic congestion by increasing freeway efficiency. They use various ITS equipment including Automatic Incident Detection (AID) systems.
The Eastern Ile-de-France region around Paris is one such area that experiences recurrent and heavy traffic jams. The idea was to open the hard shoulder to allow vehicles to use it when traffic was congested as long as no breakdown or accident required reinstating the shoulder. Citilog’s AID system was key to the implementation of the system as it allows a safe operation of the shoulder, enabling detection of stranded vehicles or accidents requiring that the shoulder be closed to traffic.
The total cost of the Intelligent Shoulder project was 40 times less expensive than the alternative projects involving actual road construction. The return on investment was less than 2 years. In addition, because of the on-going use of an AID system, the return on investment will continue to blossom as future incidents and congestion are now more efficiently monitored and managed.
News
April 7, 2010
Citilog at Intertraffic.
Citilog's XCam had a great take off at Intertraffic and will take us to new heights. The future of this innovative product seems as bright as the Citilog balloon!
30 March, 2010
Citilog aids Manhattan traffic.
Citilog is contributing to easing up traffic jams in the lower Manhattan through its XCam-ng. The XCam provides real time queue length, enabling advanced real time intersection control strategies.
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March, 2010
Citilog strikes again in Colombia
After a succesful deployment of its video-based AID system in the Boqueron tunnel, Citilog just received and order for the Sumapaz tunnel. Colombia currently experiences intensive activity in road infrastructure projects and tunnels Safety is a key component.
03 March, 2010
Citilog's CEO, Christian Girardeau, was invited at the Elysee Palace, meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dimitri Medvedev during his three-day state visit to France.
February, 2010
The first World Ministerial Conference on road safety organized by the United Nations Organization was held at the World Trade Center in Moscow in December 2009. Hosted by the Russian government and its ministry of transportation, the conference gathered Ministers of Transportation as well as Ministers of Health from around the world.
Newsletter #4
10 Feb, 2010
After 6 months of operation, Citilog's video-based Automatic Incident Detection system on the A86 double deck tunnel in Paris lives up to the high expectations.
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10 July, 2009
Citilog to equip Goteborg (Sweden) tunnel with video-based Automatic Incident Detection system. The system directly processes Axis digitally encoded (IP) video streams.
