Indra has won a EUR1.7m contract from Wroclaw Public Transportation Municipal Company in Poland to install an Operations Assistance System (OAS) and including one year execution period.
As per the deal, Indra Sistemas in Spain will install OAS system, which includes passenger information subsystems, fleet management and video surveillance for 251 vehicles, 136 buses and 115 trams in the city.
The intelligent public transportation management technology will facilitate efficient management of transport system, improve services to the residents and user safety as well as help in controling vandalism and accident audits.
OAS system will comprise three basic components: on-board GPS-based management, control and location equipment; a mobile communications infrastructure based on GPRS and 3G technology; and the control centre.
The control centre will monitor and control the service based on geographic information systems (GIS) which will inform the location of any fleet vehicle at any moment allowing decision makers to take decisions in real time in the event of incidents.
Additionally the solution will also help in generating reports and graphs for supervision of the services.
The system will provide information to passengers such as the next stop, possible incidents, estimated arrival times as well as help the traffic controllers to manage the on-board public information system from the control centre.
On-board video surveillance system will also be integrated with the OAS to record, transmit and view images in real time.
For safety improvement, several cameras will be fitted in each vehicle and in some case it may reach to ten, offering increased safety to employees and users.
One of the cameras will focus on the road ahead to view exactly what the driver sees, which will support the audits in the event of an accident as well as for the control centre to know the status of traffic or possible incidents in real time.
Under the plan, 18 vehicles will be equipped with a passenger counter system that will record the number of passengers who board and exit, making it possible to know the current occupancy so as to avoid surpassing the maximum capacity, request reinforcement vehicles for demand peaks, perform mobility studies.
A navigation support system for drivers will facilitate voice orders from the control centre for regulating the service.
The technology and devices deployed by Indra are suitable to operate in Polish city's harsh weather condition, even in -15oC in the winter.
