National Traffic Control Centre
From SR
Aims
The National Traffic Control Centre (NTCC) based in the West Midlands is an ambitious telematics project aimed at providing free, real-time information on England's network of motorways and trunk roads to road users, allowing them to plan routes and avoid congested areas.
The TCC Project will introduce, for the first time, coordinated up-to-the-minute information on the majority of the strategic road network.
In order to achieve the main goals of reducing congestion and improving journey time reliability a real-time traffic monitoring and modelling system has been installed along with supporting technology and structures designed to dispense this information to road users and national agencies.
Structure
The National Traffic Control Centre is a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project as part of the UK Government's Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy. A special purpose company known as Traffic Information Services (TiS) Ltd, wholly owned by Serco, was established to deliver the project.
The contract with TiS is for ten years (2001 to 2011); this includes the 29-month design and build phase followed by a seven year, seven month management and operation contract. The NTCC went live in mid-2004.
