Vilvoorde traffic and parking guidance with ANPR and PGS technology
21018
From 2021 to 2023
Commissioned by the city of Vilvoorde, TML is investigating smart digital solutions to reduce congestion and heavy traffic in the centre of Vilvoorde. These solutions rely on ANPR technology and dynamic signage but also on tele-information systems that reach and guide drivers in cars in real time.
The accessibility and liveability within the city of Vilvoorde are under mounting pressure due to increasing motorised traffic that has no destination in the city. This leads to more congestion and cut-through traffic and slows down public transport. The congestion makes the streets look less friendly to soft forms of mobility. The city of Vilvoorde wants to invest in an ANPR system that keeps out through freight traffic from the city centre. In addition, they want to invest in a smart parking guidance system that directs car traffic with a local destination to recommended parking spaces.
TML is taking the lead in two studies. A first study has as its subject a digital system that identifies violations of restrictions on through traffic. The second study is on the subject of a digital system that monitors occupancy in underground and surface parking spaces and directs local destination traffic to these parking spaces in a tiered manner. The study will lead to the procurement of the most appropriate and affordable technology that can address the problems efficiently. This will increase accessibility and liveability within the city, reduce unwanted traffic, and make destination traffic arrive at its destination faster. Streets in the city centre will become more attractive to walkers and cyclists, making soft mobility modes more common in the streetscape.
The studies run in phases and in parallel. In the first phase, we are mapping Vilvoorde's needs. We draw up scenarios that respond to these needs and propose suitable technologies in combination with optimal geographical implantation locations. TML, in cooperation with the city government and other partners, will also test the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed systems with test sites. TML will compare the players of such systems in the market and prepare a market-based tender with the partners. Conducting the studies followed by preparing the tenders will take seven months. Thereafter, TML will support the awarding process and follow up with the other partners during the implementation phase. This will end by May 2023.
TML takes the lead in this project and is supported by partners Tractebel, MORE LION, Rasschaert Advocaten, and Rebel. TML is mainly taking charge of the parking guidance system and will be heavily involved in all other topics and phases. The increasing mobility pressurising municipal centres is a recognisable contemporary problem. Our reports can serve as a roadmap against which small and medium-sized cities can mirror and be inspired to face similar problems.
Study reports are expected by the end of 2021. The tender documents will be ready in early 2022. A roadmap will also be prepared to assist other cities and towns with similar mobility problems.
The accessibility and liveability within the city of Vilvoorde are under mounting pressure due to increasing motorised traffic that has no destination in the city. This leads to more congestion and cut-through traffic and slows down public transport. The congestion makes the streets look less friendly to soft forms of mobility. The city of Vilvoorde wants to invest in an ANPR system that keeps out through freight traffic from the city centre. In addition, they want to invest in a smart parking guidance system that directs car traffic with a local destination to recommended parking spaces.
TML is taking the lead in two studies. A first study has as its subject a digital system that identifies violations of restrictions on through traffic. The second study is on the subject of a digital system that monitors occupancy in underground and surface parking spaces and directs local destination traffic to these parking spaces in a tiered manner. The study will lead to the procurement of the most appropriate and affordable technology that can address the problems efficiently. This will increase accessibility and liveability within the city, reduce unwanted traffic, and make destination traffic arrive at its destination faster. Streets in the city centre will become more attractive to walkers and cyclists, making soft mobility modes more common in the streetscape.
The studies run in phases and in parallel. In the first phase, we are mapping Vilvoorde's needs. We draw up scenarios that respond to these needs and propose suitable technologies in combination with optimal geographical implantation locations. TML, in cooperation with the city government and other partners, will also test the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed systems with test sites. TML will compare the players of such systems in the market and prepare a market-based tender with the partners. Conducting the studies followed by preparing the tenders will take seven months. Thereafter, TML will support the awarding process and follow up with the other partners during the implementation phase. This will end by May 2023.
TML takes the lead in this project and is supported by partners Tractebel, MORE LION, Rasschaert Advocaten, and Rebel. TML is mainly taking charge of the parking guidance system and will be heavily involved in all other topics and phases. The increasing mobility pressurising municipal centres is a recognisable contemporary problem. Our reports can serve as a roadmap against which small and medium-sized cities can mirror and be inspired to face similar problems.
Study reports are expected by the end of 2021. The tender documents will be ready in early 2022. A roadmap will also be prepared to assist other cities and towns with similar mobility problems.
