FIFA 2006
Integrated traffic management for the parking guidance system during the 2006 FIFA World Cup
In addition to toll systems, Satellic supplied solutions for urban mobility and active environmental protection. These include applications for electronic tracking and tracing solutions, where Satellic is able to access the expertise of its parent company, T-Systems.
One example is the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where a parking guidance system was used in Hanover, allowing the traffic management centre to significantly reduce traffic disruptions on match days. The integrated traffic management system was also able to demonstrate for the first time that mobile traffic data from vehicles optimally supplements local traffic management and conventional parking guidance systems.
The solution
The innovation in this project was the use of GPS data from statistically-selected vehicle fleets (floating car data) and its application in the parking guidance system.
- City of Hanover service buses,
- airport transfer shuttle buses,
- a pharmacy supplier’s delivery vehicles and
- the Hanover police force
were equipped with GPS/GSM terminals, which transmitted mobile traffic data in real time to the traffic police operations centre. This enabled unique area coverage of the traffic situation. Video images and conventional traffic data were helpfully supplemented by speed data between the stationary measurement points, allowing even the minutest disruption of road traffic to be analyzed and the necessary traffic-control measures to be taken.
Results and recommendations
The number of traffic disruptions during the FIFA World Cup matches in 2006 was reduced by more than 50% in comparison with the previous year (Confed-Cup 2005). At the same time, an efficient, state-of-the-art parking guidance system for major events was launched on a world stage. It was, at least, possible to identify the effects of diversions at road works and on relief roads as a result of the area coverage of the traffic situation information. In conjunction with free-flow toll solutions, the project results from Hanover give grounds for optimism. Traffic-related CO2 emissions can be dramatically reduced if political mandates are implemented using technical innovation.