Global MSC Security were commissioned by Bristol City Council to manage the procurement of the hardware for the camera controls linking the new Traffic Control Centre with the public space cameras controlled at Brunel House. We then went on to project manage the installation of the system.
To cope with the influx of traffic, following the opening of the new Cabot Circus shopping centre, the
developers and Bristol City Council have spent more than £30 million on reshaping roads, upgrading traffic signals, bus lanes and signs. Overseeing it all will be a bank of cameras in the city council’s new Urban Traffic Control Centre in Wilder Street, St Paul’s. The control centre will be operated by council staff from 7am to 7pm on weekdays with extra cover on busy weekends. A video wall is able to display up to 60 CCTV images at once showing congestion and how individual junctions are operating.
A real time car park information and variable message system is now in place. This will be run from the control centre allowing staff to provide traffic information to drivers when incidents occur, or in advance of major events. To read more about the project visit the This is Bristol website here.