Traffic control centre, south-west Netherlands

Client: Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management
Contract: Design, detail, manufacture, deliver, install and starting up and putting into operation  a range of traffic installations.
Location: Rhoon Traffic Control Centre

Traffic is getting heavier and heavier and it has become increasingly important to monitor the road network. While this used to be done locally or by three smaller traffic control centres, monitoring is now even more centralised. GTI was part of the consortium that built an ingenious data system which now enables Rhoon Traffic Control Centre to monitor and operate roads, bridges and tunnels more efficiently.

Ambitious assignment
The assignment of the Directorate-General of Public Works and Water Management was threefold:
1. make assets such as bridges and tunnels suitable for remote control;
2. set up a transmission network between these assets and the control centre;
3. design the installations required to operate the assets from the control centre.

Gigabit ethernet
The new traffic control centre will bring different systems together. Rhoon will receive audio signals and data traffic as well as video pictures from cameras. All this digital transmission amounts to a huge number of bits per second. Very data-intensive, in fact, and that makes heavy demands on the equipment that supports it. This is why GTI chose gigabit ethernet, which has never been used in the Netherlands on this scale before.

36 images simultaneously
The result is there for all to see. The control room is dominated by large monitors capable of displaying 36 images simultaneously for each workstation. Thanks to a redundant ring network, data transmission is not interrupted, not even if a cable happens to break. The traffic control centre is ready for the future.