The Horus platform integrates the tools necessary to assist operators in coordinating services, managing special situations, incident management and emergency operations.
The overall aim entails improving safety by minimising personal and/or material damage, identifying black spots in the infrastructure to facilitate preventive actions, and continuously improving operations.
Based on early detection and even incident prediction, the solution provides operators with intuitive and reliable guidance, automated actions and notifications, and can even manage restrictions.
- Minimise injuries and/or material damage caused by the incidents
- Identify black spots on the road, allowing for preventive actions to improve safety
- Improve operations continuously by recording all information flowing through the system, and then analysing this information using reporting tools
- Reduce incident detection time by automatically responding to alarms from sensor devices
- Automate the Emergency Plan's action protocols, automatically acting on the infrastructure's different equipment and actuator systems
- Respond consistently to incidents
- Reduce incident response time
- Guide the operator in the actions to be taken during incident resolution
- Coordinate in-house and external resources (ambulances, fire brigade, police, etc.) optimally
- Notify different users / instances of incidents, depending on the severity of the incident, by different means: e-mail, SMS, Twitter, etc.
- Record the total number of actions carried out
The recently implemented control centre of the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) in Madrid is perhaps the most representative success story for managing an intercity environment with multiple roads, where incident detection works through integration with the DGT's own Lince system.
Notable international environments include Canada's NA-30 motorway for Nouvelle Autoroute 30, where a ship-bridge collision incident and its detection by radar is managed as a particular case, or the PR22 road in Puerto Rico for Metropistas, where management added a bus lane to its usual motorway management.
