transport for london - gis

Active Traffic Management

Tactical Deployment

Alan Bristow

Director of Road Space Management

Transport for London

The role of GIS in managing

London’s Road Space

The role of GIS in managing London’s road space

• Setting the scene – TfL does roads?

• The GIS journey so far

• London is growing – the challenge we face

• Next generation GIS

TfL’s Road Management Responsibilities

• Transport For London Road Network (TLRN) – the ‘Red

Routes’ – 5% of all road space in London

• Coordination of road works on TLRN and a further

500km major roads (maintained by London boroughs)

• Maintenance, management and operation of all of

London’s 6,300 traffic signals on all roads across

London

• Real time operational command and control through

the London Streets Traffic Control Centre (LSTCC)

Economic significance of London’s roads

• 80% of all passenger journeys (including

around 10m car trips/day) use London

roads

• 90% freight movements use London roads

• London’s strategic roads are 40% more

densely trafficked than roads in other UK

conurbations

• London has around 20% of the UK

congestion, costing London’s economy at

least £2bn a year

• Cycling growth has saved economy £128

million through fewer sick days

London Streets Traffic Control Centre

Dedicated team working round the clock to mitigate the impact of 40,000

disruptions across London every year

• 12,000 planned (works, public events, construction)

• 28,000 unplanned (incidents, hazards, emergency works)

3,300 cause serious or

severe traffic disruption

24/7 situational awareness is critical to manage the road

space in real time

The GIS journey so far

• The Games Playbook

– Detailed spatial data showing the planned operational situation

for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games every 15

minutes (July – September 2012)

• New GIS-based operational system for the LSTCC

– Traffic Information Management system to enable control centre

operators to enter the specific location and attributes of every

known traffic disruption in London

– Output live, spatially accurate data to 3rd parties (i.e. sat navs)

The Games Playbook

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Traffic Information Management System

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London is growing

London’s population likely to be 10m by 2031

London’s economy is expected to grow by 42%.

Holborn Circus

Wood Green Town CentreAldgate High Street

London BridgeVauxhall

East-West Cycle Route

North-South Cycle Route

Waterloo IMAX

Elephant and Castle

Victoria Station Upgrade Old Street VisionBrent Cross

£4bn investment plan for London’s Roads to 2022

Next generation GIS

GIS as a service built on an Esri’s ArcGIS Server platform to harness full

capability of our software and hardware investments.

New, resilient servers to support the mapping component of the

Traffic Information Management System (TIMS)

Scalable servers and databases needed for Surface Playbook

Foundation platform for the centralised management of our spatial

data and GIS software assets

Provide map services for existing map-based applications (CCTV)

An enterprise-class GIS infrastructure to service all

mapping and spatial data requirements across Surface Transport

So in summary...

• Transport for London has a challenge to manage. London is

growing and the investment programme for roads is

extensive.

• GIS is a vital tool to help us understand where and when

changes are planned, and help my team effectively manage

the transformational changes to London’s Road Space for

the next 15 years.

tfl.gov.uk