Traffic control rooms

The work inside a traffic control room is versatile, reacting emergency situations, controlling of traffic signals, managing congestion, monitoring video cameras administrate networks or controlling mission-critical data in 24/7 operation. Different factors affect the daily work of traffic control room operators, like changing weather circumstances, failure of traffic signals, accidents, breakdowns or other events like terrorism or vandalism. In order having a good and immediate overview and to being able to monitor all these mission-critical data at the same time most traffic control rooms use as a central overview unit videowalls. These large screen system in general consist of a matrix of rear projection cubes ore LCD monitors, connected to a graphics controller and administrated by a display management software. The advantage of these kind of systems is that incidents, failures or problems can be determined immediately and that the information can be shared with other control room operators in order to fix such problems quickly and to initiate the necessary provisions.
The work of such traffic control rooms is very important as their provisions keep the traffic running, giving immediate help in case of accidents and warning road users in case of bad weather conditions for example.

Article on a railway control room in France

http://www.leparisien.fr/seine-et-marne-77/le-rer-a-sous-controle-25-10-2008-288386.php#

Article on traffic control room in Spain

http://www.security-int.com/categories/traffic-control-center/traffic-control-center.asp

New article on command and control

http://www.asmag.com/asm/common/article_detail.aspx?c=3&module=5&id=7237

Source: AS Magazine

New Handbook of Control Room Design

PMR Expo

PMRExpo 2008 Congress Center Leipzig (CCL), Germany

As annual industry meeting place for professional mobile radio (PMR and Trunked Radio) and command & control centres PMRExpo can register continual increase for many years. Also this year the meeting came up with a new record participation

25th to 27th November 2008, Congress Center Leipzig (CCL), Germany

http://www.pmrexpo.com/index.php?id=16&L=1

Security Exhibition

Security exhibtion in Essen: 07. - 10.10.2008
http://www.security-messe.de/?lang=en