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ITS IN EGYPT DREAM TO BECOME TRUE

ITS IN EGYPT DREAM TO BECOME TRUE. Omar Mahmoud Abdo ICT Consultant Ministry Of Transport. Problems. Noise Emissions Congestion Crashes Vibration Energy consumption. Options. Construct new roads Increase existing infrastructure capacity Uses intelligent transportation systems (ITS)

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ITS IN EGYPT DREAM TO BECOME TRUE

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  1. ITS IN EGYPTDREAM TO BECOME TRUE Omar Mahmoud Abdo ICT Consultant Ministry Of Transport

  2. Problems • Noise • Emissions • Congestion • Crashes • Vibration • Energy consumption

  3. Options • Construct new roads • Increase existing infrastructure capacity • Uses intelligent transportation systems (ITS) • Reduce Traffic • Travel demand management • Alternative transportation

  4. Construction Is Part of the Solution

  5. Option 2: Increase Existing Infrastructure Capacity • An alternative to expensive new highway construction is the implementation of strategies that promote more efficient utilization of transportation infrastructures. • These strategies are known as the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to reduce travel time, ease delay and congestion, improve safety, and reduce pollutant emissions

  6. How Much Capacity Is There? Remaining Effective Capacity Special events and disasters further restrict capacity Weather: fog, rain can all restrict capacity Work zones: major cost is delay imparted to the traveler Highway Capacity Incidents: more delay is caused by incidents than by recurring peak period congestion. Incidents can comprise 50% of peak period congestion. 1 min delay in clearance = 4 to 5 min of traffic backup.

  7. How Much Capacity Is There? ITS Remaining Effective Capacity Highway Capacity

  8. What are ITS? • Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) involve the collection and processing of data: • to provide information. • to advise or control the actions of: • Travellers. • Drivers. • fleet operators. • network managers. • using computers with multi-media communications and other technology.

  9. ITS on RoadsImproving Capacity and Preserving the Asset • No longer able to keep building new roads to accommodate predicted demand • Need new ways to improve capacity • Need to ‘lock in’ capacity provided by new / improved road schemes • Drivers want more information and more reliable journeys • 10% of delays result from road works, 25% from incidents • ITS can advise of congestion and help manage road works and incidents • Safety improvements result

  10. How Does ITS Help? • ITS is a tool to implement transport (and other) policy • Not an end in itself • Not a cure-all solution • ITS can be beneficial • On its own • Supporting other measures • Flexibility to respond to changing priorities

  11. Intelligence • Analyzing - sensing & analyzing environment - detecting changes, perceiving problems • Making decisions - acting rationally, choosing options to solve problems • Learning - using experience to make improvements: identifying new problems & decision making

  12. Integrated use of ITS – The Key to Success • Better management / more efficient operation • Sharing data – collect once, use many times. • Standardising equipment and protocols – using the best IT can offer. • Reducing cost / achieving operational targets • Dealing with information overload - highlighting what is important. • Presentation in a digestible format and there when you need it. • Coordinating effort – knowing what is happening and who is dealing with it.

  13. Cairo Ring Road

  14. تقاطع الاسماعيلية الصحراوى تقاطع مؤسسة الزكاة تقاطع المرج تقاطع القناطر شرق النيل تقاطع الهايكستب تقاطع الاسماعيلية الزراعى تقاطع النحاس تقاطع ميت نما تقاطع القناطر غرب النيل تقاطع روض الفرج تقاطع السويس تقاطع محور 26يوليو NB تقاطع تقاطع صفط اللبن تقاطع المريوطية NAتقاطع تقاطع اسكندرية الصحراوى تقاطع المنيب تقاطع الأوتوستراد تقاطع القطامية تقاطع المريوطية تقاطع المنصورية

  15. Greater Cairo Ring Road • 110 Km length. • 33% of traffic volume (Heavy Trucks). • Higher rates of fatalities compared to similar size roads . • Daily Traffic volume is 140,000 vehicles • 22 legal exits and entries in every direction and a lot of illegal exits and entries.

  16. Greater Cairo Ring Road • Average Speed is 10 Km/Hour (The Road Design Speed is 90 Km/Hour) • 143 Bridges • 487,000 tons of emissions

  17. Both directions

  18. Displaced concrete barrier

  19. Priorities for GCRR • Incident detection and rapid response • Coordination of emergency services • Rapid removal of debris • Temporary lane control and traffic management • Real-time traffic information and VMS • Enforcement activities • Overloaded trucks • Speed limit violations • Left lane truck violations • Access control • traffic and pedestrians, microbuses

  20. Deployment of ITS & Surveillance system around the Greater Cairo Ring Road

  21. Delivering the solutions • The aim is to improve traffic flow and Improve Road Safety. • The aim is to deliver a system that can be expanded on for all Egypt • It will deliver the foundations on which the System will grow • It will dictate Standards and Interfaces to allow peripheral equipment to be specified outside this contract and connect with the ‘System’. • Such Standards can be used by All Parties involved in ITS in Egypt. • It will deliver a managed solution that maintains the investment value whilst allowing the growth of an indigenous knowledge base. • It will provide a visible solution to the motorists and support the security needs of the community whilst enhancing the driving experience on the CRR.

  22. Key Requirements • We need to know the dynamics of the network – information • We need to know what is happening on the network – vision • We need to identify problems on the network – smart vision • We need to deal with transgressions – detect and enforce • We need to influence and inform travel patterns – inform • We need to manage highway dynamics – control

  23. Highway Dynamics – Information 1 • A number of RADAR based, multi lane traffic detectors • Mounted on poles surveying all lanes of carriageway • Positioned mid link on all sectors of CRR , 26 July Avenue and some key internal arterials • Providing flow volumes, classification and occupancy values

  24. Highway Dynamics Information 2 • A small number of Roadside Weather Stations • Providing information on temperature, wind speed, precipitation, visibility and fog. • Used to enhance Response plans in System and Driver information via VMS and HARS.

  25. Knowing what’s happening - Vision • A number of ‘Dome’ CCTV Surveillance cameras at strategic locations • Full Pan, Tilt, Zoom capabilities • Comprehensive coverage of network • All Video data routed to GDT Secure location.

  26. Identifying problems in the Network – the ‘smart vision’ option • Machine Vision System uses Image processing techniques to ‘instrument’ the view . • Gantry mounted overseeing all carriageway lanes . • Collects information for flow, speed, occupancy and classification for evaluation and the generations of real time Automatic Incident detection alarms. • Provides a trigger for ANPR cameras for over speeding vehicles and for detection of Trucks using the left lane. • Supplements other ITS sensor information.

  27. Detect and Enforce 1 • An ANPR Camera per lane complete with Infra Red Illuminator to give 24/7 functionality. • Image collection of speeding and trucks violating traffic laws. • High quality digital image suitable for enforcement purposes Triggered by Smart camera for instant, accurate image capture. • All images routed to secure GDT facility. • Linked to advanced Video management, Registration and Citation processing systems

  28. Distance over time Enforcement • Some speed enforcement measures cause rapid acceleration and deceleration as drivers break in front of cameras. • ANPR systems allow vehicles to be identified at different positions on the network. • Average speed between two points is measured. • Speed across the entire length of road can be enforced.

  29. Detect and Enforce 2 • Free Flow Weigh in Motion using embedded sensors Uses same camera infrastructure as previous function to detect overweight trucks in excess of a threshold. • All images routed to secure GDT facility for processing • Links to registration database and Video management suite.

  30. Inform 1. • LED Matrix based Variable Message Signs. • Two Pictograms and Central Text Portion –give visual and textual messages in Arabic • Used to advise drivers of situations on highway and to implement diversionary routing away from incidents, capacity problems • Driven by combinations of sensory inputs into ITS system • Can be used for service information, traffic status etc in application of response plans, strategies.

  31. Inform 2. • Highway Advisory Radio System Transmits traffic information over a dedicated FM frequency • Antenna placement on South Eastern side of CRR will cover all project area plus arterials approaching Cairo. • One National Frequency for all Egypt

  32. Management & Control 1 • Primary & Secondary ITS systems in different locations • Robust, reliable, ‘mirrored’ systems ensuring hi levels of redundancy • Separate Traffic and Video Architectures • Development of Response Plans and Operational Protocols between MOT and GDT to ensure swift responses can be made. • Joint staffing between MOT, GDT and Contractor. • Comprehensive statistical database for off line evaluation • Asset management database

  33. Management & Control 2. • All Video Management under GDT control • Combined CCTV and Smart camera automatic alarms • Alarms and statistics from Smart Cameras relayed to Traffic ITS applications, supplementing sensor inputs. • Very secure, robust Video management and analytic software • Archived in a secure location. • Links to Vehicle Registration database to facilitate issuing of fines for traffic violators; Speeding Vehicles & Trucks in wrong lanes.

  34. Contractors Involvement. • A Single Contract, let under FIDIC Yellow Book Terms & Conditions. • Contractor responsibility to be Design, Build, Operate and Maintain for 5 Years. • Contractor Services will include supply of Key Staff & Operators whilst MOT & GDT ‘learn on the job’ with a view to self sufficiency after initial period. • Contractor will be responsible for periodic and on going maintenance of the ‘System’. • O&M Elements will contain some performance related criteria subject to attaining realistic KPI’s

  35. Additional Contractor Services. • Contractor responsibility for Detailed Design of system to meet our needs. • Project Management throughout Design & Build scenario • Provision of FAT & SAT testing facilities and objectives . • Responsible for Minor Civil works & Structures (Gantries, Poles etc) . • All Testing & Certification of completed works Training of Employers staff . • All post commissioning Documentation and drawings. • Establishment of a Local maintenance Depot facility.

  36. Conclusions • ITS is Not a cure-all solution. • ITS in support of transport & economic policy goals. • Enabled by technology. • Tailored to the situation in Egypt. • To realise full potential of the transport network. • Capture the benefits. • Leadership and organizational capability. • Organizations working together, working differently.

  37. Acknowledgment • Dr. Ali Selim , Consultant to the Minister • Jim Dixon , • Dr. HishamFouad ,

  38. THANK YOU For Your Attention

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