1) CROS ROAD (Central Routeer - en Ontheffings Systeem)

An automated route information and planning system built for RDW-TET – a semi-government institute which takes care of a variety of things including vehicle registration and the issuing of permits for exceptional forms of transport. This GIS based software offers intelligent route planning facilities and also provides the road managers with additional route information.

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2) JESS (Journey Enquiry Support System)

A sophisticated journey planner for public transport, which provides independent travel information and advice for all forms of public transport within Scotland. Developed for Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT), it is the largest of any passenger transport authority in the UK, and the only one in Scotland. URL: http://www.spt.co.uk/Travel/index.html

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3) MELINDA

Melinda describes how planned road-activities and large-scale events will be made available to the TIC consumers in electronic form. The system will run independently off the current TIC and will function autonomously. The Melinda system aims to provide updated forecasts of road situations to the consumers of Tic-Nederland. This is done by importing and converting the data from the Meldwerk system and encoding this data into DATEX format – the format used by TIC to communicate with its consumers.

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4) PTIMS

PTIMS is a system for local authorities and PTEs which enables the input and maintenance of bus service registrations, bus routes, timetables, fares, tendered bus services, contracted bus services and bus stop groupings (clusters). It also enables the output of reports and public timetables; and the electronic output in standard formats such as ATCO-CIF and TransXchange, for journey planners and bus station displays. PTIMS also takes care of the rail timetables fed to the system in CIF format.

    HAPS

HAPS is the Asset Management and Services system for the Hertfordshire County Council. The objective of the project is to automate the HCC's business processes in a fully integrated system. It maintains bus stop properties including photographs of the bus stop within a GIS environment and registering bus services that are run by bus operators registered to the HCC. The HAPS system provides accurate bus routes using GIS, creating and maintaining bus timetables ready for distribution to the public, automatically generating departure sheets derived from the timetables, collecting and analyzing bus survey data to calculate and evaluate the payments to bus operators and maintaining contracts with bus operators.

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    METRO

Metro is the Asset Management and Services system for the West Yorkshire Public Transport Executive, Metro. The system automates Metro's business processes in a fully integrated manner. Metro software provides the transport information of the Buses and Trains. The key features are: Defining accurate bus routes with stop properties and photos using GIS; creating and maintaining bus & rail timetables ready for distribution to the public; registering bus services that are run by bus operators; automatically generating departure sheets derived from the timetables; collecting and analysing bus survey data to calculate and evaluate the payments to bus operators; and maintaining contracts with bus operators. URL: http://www.wymetro.com

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5) RAIL4CHEM

Rail4Chem is a European rail traction freight company (www.rail4chem.com). The 6 locomotives (Locs) of the Dutch branch are used 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Operations of the Dutch division of Rail4Chem are monitored at the Rail4Chem office in Euro port. The locomotives will be equipped with an OWASYS (www.owasys.com) on-board unit with Tripstar software. The Tripstar units will be seen as black boxes for the drivers, that is, no user intervention is necessary and possible.

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6) RIS HOV (Reizigers Informatie Systeem (RIS)

Developed to support the Hoogwaardig Openbaar Vervoer (HOV) bus transport system in the Dutch city of Utrecht, this system provides real-time information such as the arrival/departure of buses. It uses induction loops embedded in the roads to track the buses.

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7) RIS LOKET

The RIS Server aims at providing information regarding ship voyages such as location-based messages, voyage/passage details and Casco details. Users at the browsing end have the option to choose between the low-band version (Text version) and the high-band version (Graphics version) of the web site. This facilitates the use of the system in areas where the internet connectivity bandwidth is low or high, and where the machines have a lower or higher configuration and performance level. http://www.risserver.nl

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8) SABIMOS

Sabimos is a project by Regio Twente, which optimises information services for travellers using public transport. Sabimos provides for instance travel information displays, which show the current departure and arrival times of various bus services. ARS T&TT develops and delivers the travel information displays to Sabimos, for buses that are placed at the Almelo, Hengelo and Enschede stations.

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9) SECTION CONTROL

Section control is a relatively new technique for checking the speed of vehicles on public roads. Unlike conventional speed meters, which measure the speed of a vehicle at one point, section control systems determine the average speed over a long distance. Section control gets around the problem of motorists who brake when passing a speed meter and then speed up to above the speed limit after they've past it. This sudden braking occurs frequently at conventional speed meters and often causes dangerous situations, accidents or tailbacks.

During the past year ARS has implemented the section control system for N919, where the system monitors the vehicles passing through two particular points on the road and calculates their average speed. For this ARS has developed specific hardware and software designed to identify the vehicle when it passes over a particular point on the road. The whole system consists mainly of two parts - a Local processing Unit (LPU), which resides on each point of the road; and a Central Matcher (CM), which calculates the average speed between the two points.

The Local processing Unit (LPU) consists of both hardware and software components. They include an induction loop, which is embedded in the road and triggers a camera when a vehicle passes over it. The software at LPU identifies the vehicle from the license plate and the data is processed and send to the Central Matcher. The Central Matcher (CM) resides at the server and accepts the data from the LPU. CM will determine whether a vehicle has violated the permissible speed and report the same to the client.

As a result of the great success of the project, the Dutch government has awarded ARS to implement more section control systems. The new section control systems are more challenging because they must be able to handle more traffic with the predicted amount being 100,000 vehicles per day.

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10) STT

As with all major cities, the Swedish capital of Stockholm, with its 1 million inhabitants, is faced with an ever-increasing traffic flow and subsequently, a growing level of congestion. In order to improve this situation, Stockholm‘s city council wanted to know further details about the traffic flows, as accurately as possible. Travel times can offer an important indication to this alongside the traditional counting of traffic. The system in place uses license number plate recognition. Approximately 150 cameras follow traffic on 50 routes in both directions. The infrared cameras take images of the back of the vehicle, registering the rear license plate number. The system then renders the license plate number unrecognisable, ensuring privacy and preventing any trace back to any particular vehicle. The camera then transfers the accumulated data directly to a central server in The Hague in The Netherlands every 15 minutes via wireless communication through GPRS. Information retrieved from the different cameras is compared and the travel times per route calculated. These results are consequently transferred back to the traffic department of Stockholm’s City Council. http://www.ars.nl/pressreleases/pressreleases.htm

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11) TRAVELSTAR

TravelStar, one of our key products for the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, is an application running on Pocket PCs. It is implemented with specific hardware from ARS. http://www.travelstar.nl

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12) VIA

The VIA System is a configuration of applications, modules and databases that manages traffic information in the form of reports supplied by outside sources (i.e. the Police or traffic reporters) and fed into a VIA Workstation Sub-System by Operators. The traffic reports are collated by the VIA Message Server, managed by the VIA Database Server and can be sent across a network to another organization such as DEBIS by the VIA Communication Server. http://www.adac.de

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13) YETI

YETI is navigation system that fits in your car and with spoken instructions, helps you travel to every desired destination. YETI provides one with the most current information, based in the car even in said form and on your location and file direction. With the YETI Traffic and Tracking you can show others by means of Internet where you are? With business Release even a vehicle fleet complete is on the screen. YETI keeps automatically recording trips skillfully for travel expenses claims or as a kilometer administration for the tax authority. Moreover business Release offers the possibility for the recent ride at recordings of all vehicles. For more details www.yeti.nl

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