News
[July 2010]
Information displays at tourist attractions provide insight in delays on the A12
Leidschendam, 21st July 2010 – ARS T&TT has developed a website for Rijkswaterstaat which provides information on expected delays on the A12 due to ongoing road works. The website, with real-time data based information, will be displayed on screens installed near major tourist attractions in The Netherlands. Major road works on the A12, between Woerden en Gouda, can cause delays up to one hour. The screens will display information on expected delays to assist visitors travelling to tourist destinations via the A12. The website also shows the expected delays based on the departure time, and for example, when departing 30 minutes later, 60 minutes later and so on. In addition, the website also displays alternative routes to avoid delays. The information displays will be available till end of August 2010, when the road works will be completed.
[March 2010]
Dynamic PT Information System Noord-Holland
The Dutch Province Noord-Holland has selected the consortium of ARS Traffic & Transport and Data Display for the realisation of the project Public Transport Information Displays. The contract comprises the supply, commissioning and exploitation of a dynamic PT traveler information system. It includes a Distribution Server according to the latest TransModel standard receiving trip information from the central GOVI database. The Distribution Server controls a vast number of LED displays showing actual bus departure times at stations, nodes and large bus stops.
In the consortium, ARS is responsible for the Distribution Server, for the management application and for 24/7 monitoring of the central backoffice and all operational dispays.
[January 2010]
Extension of SLIM Prijzen Waalbrug project
The successful mobility project ‘Slim Prijzen Waalbrug’, carried out by ARS T&TT for the Region Arnhem-Nijmegen (Stadsregio), is recently extended until the end of May 2010.
Due to major road works at the A325 connection between Arnhem and Nijmegen, serious congestion was expected. The SLIM project, that started September 7th, has reduced the traffic problems significantly. Currently some 6,600 automobilists participating in the project cause 8-10% traffic reduction in morning and evening rush.
[November 2009]
Mobility Project Region Eindhoven-’s-Hertogenbosch
ARS Traffic & Transport Technology, leader of the ARKON consortium, has won the contract for the Mobility Project Region Eindhoven-’s-Hertogenbosch. With this Spitsmyden project, the Province of Noord-Brabant and the Stadsregio Eindhoven, intend to reduce the mobility into the cities of Eindhoven and ’s-Hertogenbosch, by stimulation automobilist to change their driving behavior.
Price incentive
Participant to the Spitsmyden project can earn money by driving less frequently in the rush hour in certain areas of both cities. At the beginning of each the receive a fixed sum of money (mobility budget). If they drive by car during the rush hour, a price is deducted from their mobility budget. Participant can so influence their final reward, that can be a maximum of € 150 per month.
Information Incentives
An important element of the project are the so called Value Added Services (VAS). VAS provide relevant information to participants via a personal smartphone. The Province of Noord-Brabant and the Stadsregio Eindhoven want to analyse the effects of information on the driving behavior of participants.
VAS services provided by ARS T&TT include:
- Travel information and costs
- Parking information
- Road works and events
- Actual traffic information
- Speed alerts near schools
- Planning ‘green routes’
- Public Transport information
- Carpool contracts
[Sep 2009]
ARS T&TT has acquired the contract to supply travel times for Gothenborg on 111 routes from 2010-2013. The contract includes the detection of transport of dangerous goods and the supply of mobile monitoring systems. ARS T&TT also supplied travel times to Gothenborg from 2006-2010.
[Aug 2009]
ARS T&TT has acquired the contract for the supply and exploitation of an enforcement system for the environmental area of the city of The Hague. With this enforcement system all vehicles that do not comply to the environmental conditions of the city shall be identified.
ARS T&TT acquired the contract for the supply and exploitation of a traffic monitoring system for the Province Zuid Holland. The network includes 170 location and uses innovative ARS T&TT LDS loop detection technology.
[July 2009]
Spitsmyden A12
During the roadworks at de A12 motorway between Gouda and Zoetermeer road lanes will be narrower than normal and a reduction of the maximum speed is applic
able. This causes serious traffic disruption. The goal of the project ‘Avoiding the A12 rush hour’ (Spitsmyden A12) is to improve the traffic flow in the morning rush. In exchange for a financial reward, the national road authority Rijkswaterstaat wants to reduce the number of automobilists using the A12 in the direction of The Hague, between 6.30 and 9.30 hrs.
This successful program, that started November 2008, has currently over 4200 participants, reducing the morning rush by over 1000 vehicles per day. Participants earn €4 every time they avoid the morning rush hour, in comparison to their normal driving behaviour. Via a personal webpage they can see their total sum of rewards earned, which is paid out every 3 months.
Spitsmyden A12 is an initiative of Rijkswaterstaat and is carried out by ARS Traffic & Transport Technology in co-operation with, Rabobank Nederland, Universiteit Utrecht and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
More information: www.spitsmijden.nl
[June 2009]
ARS T&TT has acquired the contract to supply travel times for Stockholm on 104 routes from 2009-2013. ARS T&TT also supplied travel times to Stockholm from 2005-2009.