Indra wins four contracts to implement its traffic and toll management technology in India motorways for €10.2 million

Indra, the top IT multinational in Spain and one of the leaders in Europe, has been awarded three contracts by GMR, one of India's leading infrastructure companies, to implement its toll technology in the motorways of the Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajastan and Gujarat states for the total amount of €8.6 million. The company has also been awarded a contract by Soma-Isolux Kinshangarh-Beawar Tollway PVT to implement the control centre and the management systems for the NH-8 motorway that connects the cities of Kinshangarh and Beawar for €1.6 million.

These projects allow Indra to make progress in its objective of increasing its presence in the Asian continent's emerging markets and strengthening the technological multinational's position in Indra's transport and traffic market, which has a tremendous potential and major investments planned for the road transport infrastructure sector in upcoming years. Indra is already implementing nine radar stations and the air traffic management systems for 38 airports in the country. It also has a solid presence in ticketing, with projects for the Mumbai subway and monorail, the light train to the Delhi airport and the Calcutta subway. Recently, the multinational has been awarded the contracts to commission Kolkata's new air traffic control centre, which will be one of the largest in India, and to provide the Airports Authority of India (AAI) with simulation systems to train its controllers.

The first GMR contract includes the supply, installation and start-up of the toll system for the NH-9 motorway, which measures 181 km and connects the cities of Hyrerabad and Vijayawada in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Indra will implement a total of 46 lanes for its manual, electronic and mixed toll systems, which include weigh-in motion technology used to classify vehicles.

In the state of Karnakata, Indra will implement its toll technology for the NH-13 motorway in the 97 km stretch between Hungund and Hospet. This will include a total of 42 manual, electronic and mixed toll lanes, as well as weigh-in motion equipment.

In the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, the technological multinational will install a temporary toll system, followed by a definitive toll, in the Kishanfarh Udaipur Ahmedabad (KUA) stretch of motorway, in the NH-79, NH-76 and NH-8 motorways.

The three toll projects have been awarded by the Indian GMR Group, which is one of the ten most important infrastructure companies in India and operates six motorway concessionaires. The company is also currently executing four new concessionaire projects in the country.

Traffic management technology

On another note, Soma-Isolux Kinshangarh-Beawar Tollway PVT has awarded Indra a contract for the development, installation and maintenance of the management systems for the NH-8 motorway that connects the cities of Kinshangarh and Beawar. A control centre will manage traffic in the motorway's 94 km and also integrate the various systems that include traffic counters, variable message panels, SOS posts, a weather station and closed circuit television (CCTV).

Indra adds these new references to its extensive experience in developing and implementing comprehensive cutting-edge technology solutions for traffic control and management, tunnel control systems and toll systems. It has completed projects in this field in more than 45 countries, such as the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Montenegro and China.

Progress in the Asia-Pacific region

With these contracts, Indra is able to make progress in the objective of increasing its presence in the Asian continent's emerging markets, where it has subsidiaries in India, China, the Philippines and Sydney.

Aside from the India projects mentioned above, the company has also been awarded contracts to implement its ticketing systems in the Kuala Lumpur monorail as well as its urban traffic control technology in the Chinese cities of Ghangde, Guilin, Korla and Liaocheng. Another contract was awarded by the Australian air navigation service provider, Airservices Australia, to modernise the network of radar surveillance stations that support the en route aircraft movements in the country's eastern region.

In China, Indra is also modernising the Xian and Chengdu control centres, which organise the upper airspace of eight Chinese regions that cover an area comparable to Western Europe. Additionally, the company is already rolling-out a surveillance network that will cover 60% of the nation's air space. Indra has also completed important aeronautical simulation projects, it has delivered training systems for Hainan Airlines and Air China, and it is developing the China's first helicopter simulator (it will be installed at the Airbus training centre in Beijing).

The technological multinational is implementing a global health system for the most important hospital in the Philippines, it is responsible for Meralco's global technological outsourcing (the nation's largest power company), and it serves the leading companies of the Philippines' energy sector.

Indra is the leading technology multinational in Spain and a leader in Europe and Latin America. It is the second European company in its sector in terms of R&D, with €550 million invested in the last three years. Its turnover in 2011 was €2.688 million, and more than half of its income is currently from international markets. The company employs 40,000 professionals and has customers in 118 countries.