☐ Private

☒ Increase of safety

☐ Reduction of environmental damage

☐ Protection of the road infrastructure

☒ Increase traveller comfort

☐ Other: _______________________________________________

☐ Change the distribution of transport in space in order to achieve a more even distribution on the network, and prevent “wrong vehicles on wrong places” (traffic control, traffic management, traffic information, access restrictions)

☐ Change the composition of vehicles on a certain piece of infrastructure (access restrictions, fees)

☐ Manage the flow on a given road section in order to reduce speed variation and thus improve the capacity and reduce the risk of incidents

☐ Manage access to a given road section in order to prevent disturbances and reduce the risk of incidents (e.g. ramp metering)

☐ Increase the speed on the link and thus increase capacity (throughput)

☒ Reduce the risk of incidents and traffic disruptions through better informed infrastructure users (traffic and traveller information)

☐ Reduce the consequences from disruptions through fast countermeasures (incident response time)

☐ Reduce traffic volumes through redistributing transport between transport modes

☐ Other: ______________________________________________

VMS installed on the network are used inform road users of forecast and real-time events.

☐ Receive information from the national access point

☐ No connection to the national access point

☐ Phone app

☒ VMS

☐ In-vehicle information

☒ Other; please specify:

–    Mobile site

–    RSS feeds

–    DATEX II feed

–    FTP Service – Traffic Scotland Live Traffic Camera

–    Twitter feed

–    Dedicated call centre

–    National, local and commercial media

–    Streaming internet radio service

(+ end date of measure if applicable)

–    Incidents

–    Roadworks (live and planned)

–    Planned events

–    Event specific travel & traffic information

–    Live traffic CCTV images

–    Live VMS messages

–    Weather stations outputs & weather warnings

–    Travel times

–    Traffic queues and congestion

VMS are used to manage the trunk road network by providing advanced warning of emergencies and incidents to aid drivers in their journey planning, and warn drivers of future events that may cause delay. A VMS legend document provides the approved VMS messages for local and wide area responses.

(technical, legal, organisational, financial)

Central CMS to control the various aspects of the Traffic Scotland web information system, provides a single, easy to use system to enter and update information. This streamlines processes, saves operator time, and reduces training time.

Most modern web based RTTI services are map driven. Users expect interactive functions, mapping functions similar to Microsoft and Google (smooth panning, aerial photography etc.), this was the focus of the new mobile service.

The use of social media for alerts has also proved a valuable addition to the service. In the past few years, the emphasis has been on allowing websites to communicate and share information. Social networking has become a day-to-day activity for millions of users commenting, tagging, rating and sharing content. The latest news items are just as likely to be reported first on social networks as they are on the news. Opportunities exist to promote Traffic Scotland content and expose the service to a wider audience using social media.

Colocation of information providers, for example Twitter and traffic radio services are present in the control centre, this helps information exchange and consistent messaging.

User specified content with the integration of services with social media, alerts, location based services, Traffic Scotland Radio; the aim is to proactively deliver real-time information to users when, where and how they want it.

Regular review and updating of authorised VMS legends to ensure network changes are reflected and new VMS signing situations are anticipated.

Desktop – https://trafficscotland.org/