The Abu Dhabi Department of Transport (DoT) is installing a traffic control system in Mohammed bin Zayed City to improve safety and security for road users.
The new AED75m ($20.4m) system includes the installation of smart and integrated traffic/pedestrian signals, along with a video surveillance system. It is currently operational in seven of the city’s 34 intersections after a pilot project.
Featuring the latest traffic management technologies, the new traffic signal control system will ease traffic flow in Mohammed bin Zayed City by lowering recurring congestions and improving road safety, particularly at intersections.
This is expected to result in faster responses to non-recurring congestions and reductions in time spent in traffic, while lowering fuel consumption levels, noise and greenhouse emissions.
The system provides signal timing plans which use historical data. It establishes fixed timing plans that can be altered as per requirements and special event plans.
In addition, the system features traffic-responsive signal control schemes which can enhance timing plans for the signal network depending on surveillance data provided by the traffic roadway network.
The system is connected to the present traffic control centre in Abu Dhabi as well as to a future satellite control centre which will be located in Mohammed bin Zayed City.
DoT general director of main roads Faisal Ahmed Al Suwaidi said that the installation of the traffic signal control system follows detailed studies and site visits conducted by the DoT in cooperation with the Department of Municipal Affairs.
“The DoT plans to roll out the system in other areas in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi such as the cities of Western Region,” he said.
The traffic control system is expected to be completed and fully operational at all intersections by the fourth quarter of 2014.
