Traffic Management

 Many communities throughout the world have started to integrate intelligent transport systems (ITS) into their transportation system infrastructure to help monitor and manage traffic flow and reduce congestion. ANPR can provide transportation professionals with the tools to collect, analyze, and archive data that helps assess the performance of these systems.
 
ANPR can help monitor the movement and flow of vehicles around a road network. This would typically involve looking at historical data, estimates, observations and statistics such as:
 
 

• Car park usage
• Number of vehicles along a road
• Areas of low and high congestion
• Frequency, location and cause of roadworks

 
By using ANPR, it is possible to monitor the travel of individual vehicles, automatically providing information about the speed and flow of various routes. These details can highlight problem areas as and when they occur and helps transportation professionals to make informed incident management decisions. 
 
Systems must be able to support numerous lanes of ANPR. The Digital Recognition iSharp Plus Camera can read two lanes of traffic from a single, incredibly small unit thus reducing installation costs. The iSharp runs on a Cat5 network cable to a roadside cabinet up to 100m away. The power to the camera is supplied along this cable from the roadside cabinet while the video is supplied along the same cabe from the camera to our rugged roadside BlackRock unit which is housed inside the cabinet. The ANPR processing takes place onboard this BlackRock unit on the roadside. The data is then transmitted to a Back Office Facility. Data can be transferred by numerous methods such as fibre, 3G, ADSL or wireless. This greatly reduces installation costs and reduces bandwidth requirements as only the plate reads and any required associated images are sent.