RDA & Tollink to Install Software based Traffic Controll System in Rawalpindi

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Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) on Thursday signed a Rs32 million agreement with a company, Tollink, for installing a software to control traffic in the city.

TolLink Pakistan provides a comprehensive solution to its clients regarding Road Asset Management, Traffic Management, and Parking Management Systems and their associated facilities.

The Company also offers life cycle maintenance of these Systems and facilities. The Company has a significant track record in the industry for both local and International Projects.

TolLink is an EFKON Group Company. The Company specializes in Supply, Management, Advisory and support Services related to Toll Roads and related infrastructure projects.

Tollink Pakistan will control traffic on 19 busy intersections in Rawalpindi city through a software known as Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (Scats) which will automatically turn the signals green and red according to the volume of traffic.

The software, which will be imported from Australia, has been distributed to 154 cities in 25 countries worldwide controlling 34,357 intersections. Software makers say it is designed to coordinate traffic signals for networks or for arterial roads and “each regional computer can manage up to 250 intersections.”

After operating the system for initial two years, Tollink will hand it over to RDA. Initially, the traffic control system will be installed on Benazir Bhutto Road, Liaquat Road, Saidpur Road and Stadium Road.

The project, will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif soon. The ceremony to sign the contract was attended by Chairman Development Committee Rawalpindi, Director General RDA Makeen Shahbaz and representative of Tollink Riffat Nazar.

Tollink representative said:
The system would end “manual management of traffic and the new traffic control system measures volume of vehicles at intersections through installed censors, turning green or red according to the size of traffic."
Makeen Shahbaz said:
“We are happy to sign a Urban Traffic Control (UTC) contract for the first time in Pakistan, The new traffic system can handle traffic far and wide as the software can coordinate traffic on 250 intersections”
[Tollink Website: http://tollink.com.pk]
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