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The basic field of ITS project in Wroclaw is traffic engineering. The process

of movement of each group of road users in passageways has not, until now, met

the expectation of travellers. The municipal traffic management body did not have

a centralised and consistent management tool. All traffic control was carried out by means

of fixed-time control method (multi-programmed), and an accommodative method was

used less frequently in a very limited scope. This means that the controlling devices

worked repetitively at certain intervals and did not respond to the dynamic changes of

the size and proportion of traffic flows. Hence, the idea of implementing an IT solution

emerged, which should enable the municipal services to effectively manage public

transport and public traffic. On the basis of data provided by the designed system, it

should be possible to efficiently design and develop the transport infrastructure, and

the inhabitants of Wroclaw agglomeration, by means of a website and the functions

implemented in it, should be able to track current information on traffic conditions.

Another important issue which had to be solved was to provide travellers and persons

planning to travel with the information on traffic conditions, in particular with regard to the

expected time of travel, road conditions, public transport timetables and parking options.

The modern traffic control centre (see Figure 7.5) was established in the building

of the Crisis Management Centre in Wroclaw, where all the services responsible for

traffic management and public transport work, i.e. the services of Road Administration,

Urban Engineering, Transport Department and public transport operator MPK. The

‘heart’ of the system was planned to be placed in an existing, well-guarded building,

owned by the municipality of Wroclaw. The location of the Centre was not random, as

the building is the seat for the Crisis Management Centre and emergency substation,

which allows to coordinate activities in critical situations. Traffic and public transport

management centre was created on an available space of approximately 245 m

, with an

area undivided by walls, which allowed for its optimal use, in particular for separating

an operating room with an area of 120m

with a video wall, and a technical room

necessary for its maintenance.

Inside, an amphitheatrically arranged layout of 12 work stations was created, and

a room for MPK dispatchers was separated with glass walls. The latter provided an

excellent view of the video wall from each work station.

Figure 7.5 Modern traffic control centre [7]