Projects - Traffic Management & ITS

Lusail Expressway Project - Qatar

Client: Public Works Authority – Ashghal
Consultant: CDM Smith
Contractor: Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Co. Ltd.
Subcontractor: Traffic Tech (Gulf) W.L.L.

Lusail Expressway is one of the biggest among 30 road projects to be developed as part of Qatar’s seven-year expressway programme initiated in 2010 to connect people and places across the city of Doha and Qatar through 900km of new roads, involving a number of underpasses, flyovers and multi-level interchanges.

The project will involve 5.3km of four-lane highway in both directions and three major interchanges in Northern Doha, namely the Al Wahda Interchange, the Onaiza Interchange and the Pearl Interchange.

The expressway will also have two service lanes in the multi-level interchange areas, and include a complex network of tunnels, flyovers and junctions in order to meet the future traffic demands by providing easy and quick connectivity.

In addition, the project also involves the construction of two new multi-lane canal crossing bridges.

Traffic Tech has developed detailed design of:
    • Lusail Expressway Traffic Control Center (TCC)
    • Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) equipment on open road and tunnels
    • Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) as one system that would monitor and control traffic on the entire length of Lusail Expressway (both open/surface road and tunnels).

The main purpose of the ITS work for Lusail Expressway is to equip it with traffic management system that provides drivers with warnings, manage speed limits, provide drivers with appropriate travel time and re-routing information, automated responses to traffic conditions, traffic density, incidents, special events and maintenance work.

This Lusail Expressway Project is equipped with highly advanced ITS components including:
    • Magnetometer Detection Systems (MDS)
    • Closed Circuit TV Cameras (CCTV)
    • License Plate Recognition (LPR) System
    • Automatic Incident detection (AID) System
    • Dynamic Message Signs (DMS)
    • Lane Control Signs (LCS)
    • Over-Height Vehicle Detection System (OVDS)
    • Weigh In Motion (WIM)
    • Emergency Roadside Telephone System (ERT)
    • Radio rebroadcasting System (RRS)
    • Public Address System (PA)
    • Road Weather Information System (RWIS)
    • Roadside Controllers & Communications System
    • Control Room

Qatar Traffic Control Centre

Traffic Tech (Gulf) designed and built Doha’s City Wide IP-based CCTV Surveillance System on 41 intersections integrated with the city’s SCATS® Adaptive Traffic Signal System, a project the realized the implementation of two main ITS building blocks.

The project has gone through the first phase where proof of concept has been successful and is now in the second phase of implementation. Further phases are planned until all signalized intersections are connected to the system.

System Includes:
    • SCATS® Adaptive Traffic Signal System controlling 76 intersections
    • 44 PTZ IP Dome Cameras (36x zoom) on 41 intersections
    • Cameras and traffic signal controllers are connected to the control room via MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) IP VPN, Fiber Optic, and/or wireless. It is worthy to highlight the flexibility of the system as all these communications media work in one system.
    • Routing and switching hardware
    • Advanced IP Video Management & Recording System
    • Control Room with Video Wall and Operator’s Console
    • Operation and Maintenance for 30 months

SCATS Central Urban Traffic Control System

Yanbu AlSinayiah, Saudi Arabia

Traffic Tech designed and built Yanbu’s centrally controlled SCATS adaptive traffic signal system, designed to control 55 intersections using analogue leased telephone lines. Further expansion of the system is planned complete with a new IP communications network to gradually replace the existing analogue lines.

Traffic Signal Installations

Traffic Tech supplied and/or installed and commissioned over 500 signalized intersections in several countries throughout the Middle East and Arabian Gulf region including:

    • 197 intersections for the Public Works Authority (PWA) – Qatar
    • 78 intersections for Qatar Petroleum (QP) Industrial Cities of Mesaieed, Dukhan, and Ras Laffan – Qatar
    • 7 Intersections for Hamad International Airport – Qatar
    • 2 Intersections for The Pearl – Qatar
    • 2 Intersections for Qatar Foundation – Qatar
    • 35 intersections – Yanbu, Saudi Arabia
    • And others in Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon.

In addition, Traffic Tech holds an ongoing contract to supply and install traffic signal system at Lusail City – Qatar for 55 intersections.

Signalizing Roundabouts

Traffic Tech has developed a unique phasing and timing system for signalizing roundabouts and have so far signalized more than 20 roundabouts in Qatar.

Emergency Vehicle Preemption System (EVPS) - Qatar

Traffic Tech (Gulf) designed and built Qatar’s first fully integrated Emergency Vehicle Preemption System (EVPS), a GPS based system that allows emergency vehicles equipped with a preemption emitter to get priority on signalized intersections / roundabouts.

Traffic Tech (Gulf) installed 100 EVPS at various junctions across Qatar, while 51 ambulances from HMC and 7 vehicles from the Civil Defence are equipped with preemption emitters. The EVPS is integrated into Doha’s SCATS Urban Traffic Control System, and is monitored from the Ashghal RMC.

System Includes:

    • Installation of GPS based EVPS out-station equipments.
    • Installation EVPS preemption emitter equipment on emergency vehicles.
    • Central Management Software
    • Complete control room equipment with integration to Doha’s SCATS Urban Traffic Control System.

Tunnel Management System (TMS) on Ras Abu Aboud Road Tunnel - Qatar

Client: New Doha International Airport (NDIA) Steering Committee
Consultant: Cansult Maunsell
Contractor: Midmac-Yuksel JV
Subcontractor: Traffic Tech (Gulf) W.L.L.

Traffic Tech implemented Qatar’s first Tunnel Management System (TMS) as part of the NDIA North/South Extensions to Ras Abu Aboud Road project. The TMS includes state-of-the-art ITS technologies that aim to provide:

    • traveler real time information
    • vehicle guidance
    • lane control
    • automatic incident detection
    • speed enforcement
    • automated & synchronized tunnel emergency strategies
    • over-height vehicle detection

In addition, all other tunnel subcomponents including emergency telephones, fire alarm system, illumination, ventilation system, and surveillance cameras are also integrated to the system, monitored and operated via a graphical user interface (GUI) located at the tunnel’s control room.

This TMS is equipped with highly advanced ITS components including:
  • One (1) unit OVDS installed 1km before the tunnel approach to restrict entry of vehicles over 5.5 meters in height.
  • Two (2) other units are installed after the tunnel to impose over-height restriction for succeeding underpasses throughout the Ras Abu Aboud Road extension project.
  • Installed at gantries, center island, tunnel entry, and inside the tunnel.
  • One (1) VMS with combined RGB and yellow text display installed at the tunnel entry that displays tunnel condition (open/closed), speed limit, etc..
  • Four (4) VMS with yellow text display installed at 2 gantries towards the tunnel approach.
  • Two (2) VMS with Yellow text display installed at the center island towards the tunnel approach.
  • Installed at gantries and inside the tunnel.
  • Twelve (12) units outdoor variable speed limit signs mounted at the gantries displaying variable lane speed limits towards the tunnel approach.
  • Two (2) units variable speed limit signs with laser radar speed detectors installed inside the tunnel that display variable speed limits and warns incoming over-speeding vehicles.
  • Installed at gantries and at the tunnel approach.
  • Twelve (12) units outdoor lane control signs mounted at the gantries that facilitate lane management and merging towards the tunnel approach.
  • Two (2) units mounted at the tunnel entry.
  • Four (4) sets of ERT System, two inside the tunnel and the other two at the entry and at the exit.
  • Four (4) Fixed Colour CCD Cameras for traffic surveillance and automatic incident detection
  • Four (4) Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras for traffic surveillance
  • Daytime-visible LEDs with sealed electronics, scratch resistant lenses and stainless steel light heads that provide dynamic delineation, and lane guidance inside the tunnel
  • Provides enhanced lane visibility in the tunnel’s narrow curve
  • All ITS components & tunnel subsystems are controlled and operated via a graphical user interface (GUI), a video control workstation equipped with Telegra TopXview software.
  • TopXview Automatics, a program included in the system’s software, manage displays on all variable traffic signs (VMS, speed limit, lane control) when an alarm is triggered by predefined scenarios that include:
    • Over-height vehicle detection
    • Fire alarm
    • Combined NO, CO, and visibility sensor alarm
    • Automatic Incident Detection Alarms – stopped vehicle, congestion, pedestrian, wrong way, and smoke alarm
    • ERT call
  • Three (3) Roadside Controllers connect all field components to the tunnel’s control room.
  • All ITS components are connected via fiber optic communications system with ruggedized Ethernet switching.
  • ITS components are interfaced to a central PLC that controls:
    • Air quality
    • Fire Alarm System
    • Submersible Pump System
    • Lighting System
    • Exhaust/Ventilation System
    • It is noteworthy to highlight that the project was successfully implemented and commissioned in-time for the opening of the road expansion, made possible through excellent partnership between all stakeholders:
    • The NDIA Steering Committee was keen to implement a state-of-the-art Tunnel Management System that meets global safety standards, in the road expansion project that will link the capital to the soon-to-open world class New Doha International Airport.
    • AECOM (Maunsell Consultancy Services) provided professional advice on design issues.
    • Midmac-Yuksel JV was open to accept new ideas during the project’s conceptualization, empowering Traffic Tech (Gulf) to propose a highly efficient and fully integrated TMS.
    • Traffic Tech (Gulf) executed the whole project in a span of 5 months, from design, to installation and commissioning, through efficient coordination with Telegra and the rest of the project’s component suppliers.

Freeway Management System – Phase 1

Salwa International Highway - Qatar

Salwa Highway is connecting Doha City (the Capital of Qatar) with the Qatari – Saudi border zone near Bu Samra, some 95 kilometers to the southwest of Doha. Phase 1 involves the upgrade of approximately 85 kilometers of Salwa Road from just south of the industrial Area to 2 kilometers in advance of the border zone at Bu Samra.

Salwa Road has the distinction of being Qatar’s first International Road and thus, offers the opportunity to make a positive first impression of Qatar to many travelers. Implementing Intelligent Transportation Systems within the new road will reduce travel time and enhance operations in a safer and more efficient manner.

A. Preliminary Design of full Freeway Management System includes:
    • ITS Communication Network (Fiber optics Gigabit Network)
    • Traffic Data Collection Stations
    • Video Surveillance Cameras (CCTV)
    • Incident Detection Cameras
    • Variable Message Signs
    • Variable Speed Limit Signs
    • Emergency Telephones
    • Weather Stations
    • Truck Weigh Stations
B. Final design & implementation of:
    • Design & Build of Traffic control Center (TCC)
    • Design & Build of 6 Truck Weigh Stations
    • Design & Build of 85 Km of ITS ducting for the Fiber backbone.
    • Laying of 100 Km of Fiber Optic Cable
    • Installation of 600 induction loop
    • Installation of 6 Overheight Vehicle Detection System (OVDS)
    • Installation of more than 30 gantry mounted directional signs

Variable Speed Limit and Bridge Clearance Limit Signs

Doha Expressway Phase 1 & 2 - Qatar

Client: New Public Works Authority (PWA)
Consultant: AECOM
Contractor: Boom Construction Company
Subcontractor: Traffic Tech (Gulf) W.L.L.

Design, supply, installation and commissioning of 44 numbers of Variable Speed Limit and Bridge Clearance Limit Signs at the following locations:

    • Al Sadd Underpass
    • Omer Bin Al Kahtab Underpass
    • Al Jwwan Underpass
    • Al Rayan Expressway
    • Al Rayan Roundabout
    • Al Rayan Flyover

Work Zone ITS / SmartEye Projects - Qatar

Projects:
    • Doha Expressway Package 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12 & 13
    • Lusail Expressway P003
    • NDIA North/South Extensions to Ras Abu Aboud Road

Traffic Tech (Gulf) successfully carried out design & build Work Zone ITS Projects. The systems monitor / control traffic on the construction site’s detours and provide work progress monitoring. These projects included in total the following components among others:

    • 58 SmartEye (portable solar powered surveillance cameras)
    • 71 remotely controlled solar powered trailer mounted portable Variable Message Signs (VMS)
    • 74 Solar Powered Trailer Mounted Arrow Boards
    • 10 Control Rooms, each equipped with central wireless base station on a 24 m tower and central management software
    • SmartCam Web based Management Software
    • DVR for continuous recording 7 days a week

Over-height Vehicle Detection System (OVDS) Projects

Duhail Interchange, Doha Expressway (Qatar)

Supply, installation & maintenance of Over-height Vehicle Detection System on 3 approaches of the Duhail Interchange.

    • Each approach is equipped with the following components: Static sign indicating maximum height with flashers.
      • Static sign indicating designated exit
      • OVDS – Z Pattern Type
      • Gantry mounted full colored full matrix LED VMS
      • Pole mounted Yellow full matrix LED VMS with two strobes
      • Electronic Alarm siren installed on the pole mounted VMS
      • Road Side Controller
    • The whole system is integrated to SCATS which allows appropriate traffic signal coordination. When an over-height vehicle is detected, the traffic signal of the approach where the over-height vehicle is headed will be automatically switched to RED by SCATS, thus preventing the vehicle’s passage towards the bridge of the interchange.
    • Two (2) Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras installed at the Duhail Interchange are integrated into the system that provides automatic live CCTV feed on an approach where an over-height vehicle is detected. The CCTV feed is displayed at the Traffic Control Center located at the PWA (Ashghal) Tower.
    • The over-height vehicle’s driver is alerted of the impending danger by an audible sound while two (2) full matrix VMS provide visual warnings and directs the driver to the designated exit to avoid hitting the bridge on the interchange.
    • At the Traffic Control Center, an audible alarm alerts the SCATS operator that an over-height vehicle is detected. The SCATS operator then monitors the movement of the over-height vehicle until it heads to the designated exit. Once the impending danger is cleared, the SCATS operator returns the traffic signal phasing of the interchange to its normal operation.
    • Client: Public Works Authority (Ashghal)

Dukhan Highway (Qatar)

    • 9 nos. OVDS (Dual Eye type) with 9 LED signs and 9 electronic sirens
    • Above mentioned components operate on solar power systems 
    • The system is equipped with video capturing of over-height vehicles
    • Contractor: Gulf Consolidated Contractors
    • Client: Qatar Petroleum

Ras Abu Aboud Road (Qatar)

    • 3 nos. OVDS (Z-pattern type) with 3 LED signs and 3 electronic sirens
    • Integrated over Tunnel Management System
    • Contractor: Midmac-Yuksel JV
    • Client: New Doha International Airport Steering Committee

Salwa International Highway (Qatar)

    • 6 nos. OVDS (Dual Eye type) integrated over Truck Weigh Stations,
      1 installed at each ramp screening stage
    • Client: Public Works Authority (Ashghal)

North Road (Qatar)

    • 3 nos. OVDS (Dual Eye type) integrated over Truck Weigh Stations,
      1 installed at each ramp screening stage
    • Client: Public Works Authority (Ashghal)

Jebel Ali Port Container Terminal (Dubai-UAE)

    • 2 nos. OVDS (Single Eye type) with 4 LED signs and 4 sirens installed at gate 2
    • 6 nos. OVDS to be installed at Gate 1 in 2010
    • Client: Dubai Ports World Authority

Industrial Area Interchange (Qatar)

    • 4 nos. OVDS (Z Pattern)
    • Contractor: Konstruktor Engineering
    • Client: Public Works Authority (Ashghal)

Doha Expressway Package 6 (Qatar)

    • 2 nos. OVDS (Z Pattern) with 2 nos. VMS and 2 nos. sirens
    • Contractor: Synohydro
    • Client: Public Works Authority (Ashghal)

Doha Expressway Package 7 (Qatar)

    • 12 nos. OVDS (Z Pattern) with 15 nos. VMS and 15 nos. sirens
    • Contractor: Yuksel Midmac JV
    • Client: Public Works Authority (Ashghal)

Al Salam Street Tunnel (Abu Dhabi – UAE)

    • 4 nos. OVDS (Z Pattren) and 2 nos. electronic sirens
    • Integrated over Tunnel Management System
    • Contractor: Sirti FZ LLC / Samsung Saif Bin Darwish JV
    • Client: Abu Dhabi Municipality

Supply, Installation, Operation, & Maintenance of Work Zone Speed Enforcement Cameras

Highway Projects - Qatar

Dukhan Highway Project

    • Contractor : Consolidated Contractors Group / Teyseer Contracting Company JV
    • Client : Public Works Authority
    • Quantity : 16 cameras

Doha Expressway Package 6 – East Industrial Road Interchanges at Intersections with Street 10 & Street 23

      • Contractor : Sinohydro Grpup Limited
      • Client : Public Works Authority
      • Quantity : 2 cameras

Doha Expressway Package 12 – F Ring Road Project

    • Contractor : Consolidated Contractors Group / Teyseer Contracting Company JV
    • Client : Public Works Authority
    • Quantity : 2 cameras

Design & Build of Traffic Management System in Hamad International Airport

Client: Hamad International Airport (HIA)
Contractor: Six Construct – Midmac JV
Subcontractor: Traffic Tech (Gulf) W.L.L.

Traffic Tech designed and built the Bus and Baggage Tug Traffic Management System at the new Hamad International Airport. The system facilitates the smooth traffic operation of buses that transport passengers, and baggage tugs that carry terminating/transit luggage, to and from arriving or departing aircrafts.

The system has been installed in five (5) locations, with each of the 5 locations operating independently.

System Components:

    • 4 custom made traffic signal boxes (shows bay numbers & red / green signal to indicate the occupancy of a corresponding bay)
    • 11 pole mounted traffic signals (2 aspect red / green)
    • 30 vehicle loop detectors
    • 5 main custom made control cabinets
    • 4 remote control cabinets
    • Fiber optic communications system connecting all field components

Supply of Automatic Weather Station at Qatar Petroleum (QP)

Client: Qatar Petroleum
Contractor: Traffic Tech (Gulf) W.L.L.

Traffic Tech supplied and delivered an Automatic Weather Station for Qatar Petroleum’s offshore operations. A training and demonstration was provided for QP’s engineers and technicians on the installation and setup of for North Field Alpha offshore platform.

The Automatic Weather Station is specially designed for maritime environments such as ports, ships, and offshore platforms. Outdoor enclosure is designed to withstand the salty and wet conditions that prevail aboard ships and platforms as well as the freeze/thaw conditions experienced in extreme-weather environments. It is also able to endure vibration and shock. The Weather Transmitter measures barometric pressure, humidity, precipitation, temperature, and wind speed and direction i.e. Measures 6 most essential weather parameters.

System Components:

    • 4 Automatic Weather Station
    • 5 Weather Transmitter
    • 3 Present Weather Visibility sensor
    • 1 Ultrasonic Wind Sensor
    • 1 Humidity and Temperature Probe
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