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CIUDAD MODELO

More and more cities are joining the initiative to dedicate more urban spaces to the enjoyment of its inhabitants creating more sustainable environments and with a better quality of life. To this end, plans are designed and measures are adopted that aim to restrict the circulation of cars for the benefit of pedestrians and public transport.

Many urban centers of our geography have seen the value of this measure that allows them to preserve and promote their historical heritage as the main tourist attraction and engine of economic development. The city center as a place where the identity signs of the city are concentrated, thus recovering its essence by dedicating its public space to the promenade, shopping... in short, creating cities with more pleasant style, without noise and with less pollution to live walking or by bike every day.

To implement the restrictions of passage, to these areas of limited access, it is necessary to install a surveillance system capable of recognizing license plates of any motor vehicle and relating it to authorized lists to allow only the passage to residents or public services.

In recent years the city of Huesca has been immersed in a very ambitious PMUS Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan whose objective was to build a quality, healthy, safe and more accessible city model, as the basis for future growth and development.

The work and effort of all these years is beginning to bear fruit and the figures speak for themselves, in the pedestrian zone the number of pedestrians increased by 53%, 38% by bicycle transport, which shows that citizens move in a more sustainable and healthy way.

The jump that has taken the city has been valued at European level by different organizations, and therefore is part of the international network TIDE and the Spanish Network of Smart Cities RECI. In recognition of its work to promote and promote sustainable mobility, the municipality of Huesca received the Bronze Medal at the 2014 SEMS Awards (in the category of cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants) convened by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

STARTING POINT

Among the different areas of action contemplated in the Sustainable Urban Mobility plan, the pedestrianization of the historic center was a key point and a top priority of the project that required a rethinking of an area of 32 hectares that should be controlled to allow access only to authorized vehicles. The circulatory plan of the area consisted of 9 entry points and 8 exit points. Each transit had specific peculiarities, which forced the intercommunication of the observation points to interpret input and output information, according to dates and times. All information should be centralized under a single control point to perform global data management and allow the processing of authorized lists.

SOLUTION

To guarantee access control to the pedestrian zone and to ensure compliance with the regulations at all times, a surveillance system capable of reading the license plates automatically and in real time was required. The solution chosen and deployed was Traffice Eye from Lector Vision. To record the traffic rolled 24 hours a day, 18 cameras were placed at the strategic points. These control units are responsible for reading the license plates and collecting data of place, date and time. Intercom between computers and central server is done through TCP / IP, which allows access to the recording units at any time to modify their configuration, operation and download data.

After a period of testing, in January 2014 the Traffic Eye reading system was put into operation in the pedestrian zone of Huesca. Since then and until today the benefits of this measure along with other actions that were contemplated in the PMUS plan such as public transport, parking, and the bike lane have helped to significantly improve the quality of life in the city creating a culture of sustainable mobility Among its citizens.

WHY TRAFFIC EYE?

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 CAPTURE 24H

 EASY INTEGRATION

 INTUITIVE SOFTWARE

 EASY INSTALATION

 REMOTE CONTROL

TUSSA

MULTAMÓVILES

Country      Spain

City              Santiago de Compostela

Activity       Smart Cities

SITUATION

The vehicles for parking control (better known as multamóviles) that monitor resident parking zones and the ORA do not go unnoticed in the city of Santiago de Compostela. Marked in white and green, with the corporate image of Tussa and their function clearly legible, they stand out, although it is the four Lector Vision cameras mounted on their roofs that really capture attention. They are the eyes that monitor parking in the areas managed by Tussa in the city.