Indra's Horus platform will manage the traffic control center of the London tunnels

The Spanish multinational Indra has been awarded the Transport for London project for the modernization of the traffic control and management center of the twelve road tunnels of this city through its Horus platform.

Transport for London's award to Indra of the design project, installation, commissioning and maintenance of an advanced control center for the London Streets Tunnels Operation Center (LSTOC), which will integrate the management of the twelve road tunnels that exist in the British capital, as well as the 90 Km. of roads that connect with them, It is based on the Horus solution from this Spanish technology multinational, that will allow governing the different systems with maximum security and operability in daily management and in emergency situations .

London's twelve road tunnels, some more than a hundred years old, They are critical for the mobility and safety of this city, although it was also vital to modernize its management and control systems that had become obsolete, with a new, centralized platform.

Intelligent monitoring management

In this sense, Indra's Horus intelligent traffic and tunnel management solution will allow the monitoring and management of all tunnels and the different subsystems they currently have to be integrated into a single system and graphical interface.. Besides, will be able to incorporate any new systems required by the London Streets Tunnels Operation Center in the future, thanks to its open architecture, highly flexible and configurable.

With a high level of automation of operations, Horus offers the operator information in real time, helping you make decisions and facilitating the quick and accurate management of everything that happens in the tunnels. Thanks to the intelligent incident management system, the operation is simpler and more predictable, even in exceptional situations, since the system itself tells the operator what to do in each case.

Thus, The technology that Indra is going to implement will ensure maximum safety and operability of the tunnels, both in daily management and in emergency situations. This aspect is fundamental for London's mobility, since any incident in the tunnels quickly affects the entire network.

The Horus platform also offers the possibility of defining a rules engine for the optimization of center and infrastructure resources., with the ability to define action plans, plus a wide selection of graphs and diagrams to monitor and analyze the status of infrastructure equipment. All data collected by this system is automatically stored to be sent and analyzed by external systems.

So, Indra's solution can be used not only by tunnel operators, but also by the different organizations responsible for traffic and mobility in the city, maintenance teams, emergency services, police, etc. In fact, by collecting current and historical traffic data, The Horus platform will also facilitate the analysis, Reporting and consolidation of information for mobility decision-making.

In order to increase the reliability, system security and flexibility, Indra will also equip a secondary control center and all central systems will be duplicated in two redundant, highly available data centers..

Modelo Smart city

With this contract in one of the main cities in the world, Indra reinforces its position as one of the world leaders in technology for traffic and tunnel management, as well as in the field of urban mobility and smart cities, with projects in more than fifty countries. This technology allows cities to move towards the smart city model, with more efficient and sustainable management, contributing to reducing traffic congestion and the costs involved, minimizing polluting emissions and promoting integrated urban transport services (intermodal).

This project also represents a new step for the multinational in the United Kingdom and the beginning of the relationship with TfL, the body responsible for London's transport system, who manages the buses, metro and trams of the capital, as well as the network 580 Km. of roads and 6.000 city ​​traffic lights.

Besides, Indra is a technology provider to leading companies in the financial sector and telecommunications operators in the United Kingdom and Ireland.. An example of this is the development of the air traffic management system with the air navigation services company NATS or the implementation of the maritime traffic management system in the port of Southampton..

Indra has also delivered the EC225 transport and rescue helicopter simulator installed in Aberdeen, at the Eurocopter pilot training center, and has been responsible for recounting the elections of 2008 to the mayoralty and assembly of London, the most important and complex in the United Kingdom; in addition to deploying its intelligent traffic and toll management systems on five of Ireland's main motorways and in the Dublin Port tunnel.