D4T CONSORTIUM WINS TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTION CONTRACT

NDW, the Dutch National Data Warehouse for Traffic Information, have awarded Data4Traffic (D4T) with the contract to collect traffic data in the regions North and East Netherlands. D4T, a consortium of Van den Berg Infrastructuren, SWARCO AG and the VerkeersinformatieDienst, will deliver the missing data for traffic flow on the most important roads with an innovative solution.

This project will help integrate roads in North and East Netherlands into the traffic information database. Currently only highways operated by Rijkswaterstaat are planned for data collection, but also other governments in North and East Netherlands are considering to join this project. With these two regions, the gap in nationwide traffic data collection will be filled. Earlier In 2008, the lots Randstad and South Netherlands had been tendered.

NDW stimulated the market during the tender phase to offer technologies that are very friendly for both the road operator and the road users. The goal was to have as little disturbance as possible during the implementation phase and maintenance period. D4T offered SWARCO's iTRAVEL system with wireless sensors (Infrared and Bluetooth® measuring systems), wireless communication (GPRS) and solar-powered energy supply. With this solution there is no need to work on the lanes, and damage to the asphalt is prevented. Another advantage is that there is no disturbance of the data collection in case of construction work at the lanes. All collecting points delivered by D4T have to be operational by December 2011.

iTRAVEL is an innovative system to collect and process road traffic data for the National Data Warehouse. The iTRAVEL system is designed to give optimum traffic information in a very effective, powerful and open way. It consists of easy to install iTRAVEL outstations with an easy to apply iTRAVEL central system. The outstation is based on state-of-the-art technology like ARMS processor with Linux operating system, GPRS communication and GPS receiver. The detection of vehicle passages is based on Passive Infrared detectors (PIR) and Bluetooth® (BT) receivers.

For more information please contact our Dutch office under office.nederland@swarco.com or have a look at www.ndw.nu