Traffic Systems Overview

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TRAFFIC AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS .................................................................... 2

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS .......................................................................... 3

HIGHWAY TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEMS .................................................................. 4

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE & PLATE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS .......................................... 8

ON GOING PROJECTS ........................................................................................... 9

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ASELSAN Traffic And Automation Systems

Aselsan been the biggest electronic company in Turkey has been providing

Intelligent Traffic systems since the late 1980s for the Turkish Highway Authority.

Having a strong record of innovation and success Aselsan has won international

recognition for several of its field proven solutions with in the fields of;

Traffic Management Systems,

Electronic Tolling Systems,

Vehicle Recognition & Enforcement Systems,

Quality Systems and Standards

ASELSAN has ISO 9001:2000 Quality Certificate, AQAP-2110 and AQAP-160 NATO

Quality Assurance Certificates and international military standards are successfully

applied during the design, material procurement, production, test, calibration and

logistics support.

ASELSAN Highway Electronic Toll Collection Systems comply with the CEN – 278

DSRC European Standards.

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Traffic Management Systems

ASELSAN offers complete traffic management solutions in a modular manner for

highway applications. The highway traffic management system is a comprehensive

platform with many different components providing;

ASELSAN offers complete traffic management solutions in a modular manner according to specific customer needs. Main modules include the following:

Traffic management center

High-speed communication backbone

Traffic counting and analysis

Traffic cameras and video management systems

Automatic incident detection

Variable message signs

Traffic information broadcasting

Road Weather Information

Travel Time Measurement

High-speed communication backbone

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Highway Toll Collection Systems

With its vast experience in design, development and manufacturing of electronic

equipment and systems, ASELSAN possesses turn-key Toll solutions ranging from

conventional operator-assisted cash based systems to fully automatic contactless

smart card and microwave-based Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) systems, Multi

Lane Free Flow Toll Collection System and traffic management systems tailored

uniquely for the explicit customer requirements. ASELSAN’s Highway Toll Collection

Systems are based on years of research and experience in this field. The three types

of systems are offered to cover all requirements of a modern toll collection

administration:

Operator-assisted cash-based system

Automatic card-based system

Non-stop electronic toll collection system

Multi lane free flow toll system

ASELSAN’s state of the art multi lane free flow toll system provides solution for open road tolling on highways, heavy goods vehicle tolling and urban road user charging. The system is based on CEN DSRC electronic toll collection and compatible with different CEN DSRC tags.

Also different standard specifications are applied such as CEN – 278 DSRC

European Standards or UHF RFID ISO 18000-6C Standards depending on the

customer requirements.

ASELSAN Multi Lane Free Flow Toll Collection System

Aselsan MLFF System has been designed to replace and assume the

duties/functions of the conventional plaza based toll collection systems

accommodating multi sub-system and multi-task structures.

Lane-free vehicle detection area has been implemented with the usage of;

- Overlapping laser curtains to detect the vehicles contained within,

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- Cameras and lighting modules to determine the front and back plates of the

vehicles,

- DSRC antennas for ETC Tag detection,

- Underground fiber-optic sensors and control units for vehicle classification and

axle counting.

The MLFF System ensures that any sub-system failure does not result in operational

failure by means of a redundant structure design for all sub-units, sensors and

processors contained within the system.

The Multi Lane Free Flow toll collection system used over one year now in Fatih

Sultan Mehmet Bridge – also known as the Second Bosporus Bridge which connects

Asia to Europe – carries 300,000 vehicles a day

The Aselsan MLFF system covers five lanes plus an emergency lane, which makes it

one of the biggest free-flow system in the world working in 99.9% accuracy.

ASELSAN Non-stop Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) System

ASELSAN Nonstop ETC System is a state-of-the-art, non-stop, all automated system

developed for paid highways and bridges. ASELSAN Nonstop ETC System, as an

integrated system, provides subsystems for non-stop electronic transactions at the

lanes, data collection, supervision, monitoring, violation processing, toll clearance

operations and reporting facilities.

The scaleable architecture of the system allows operation at different scales; ranging

from a local operation within a single closed highway to a regional operation

encompassing several highways and bridges, or to a country-wide operation covering

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a large number of paid highways and bridges. The system is fully compliant with the

CEN-278 DSRC European standards and operates at 5.8 GHz frequency band.

ASELSAN Contactless Smart Card Toll Collection System

ASELSAN Contactless Smart Card Toll Collection systems, toll transactions are

executed as users place their contactless cards in the vicinity of special readers

located on the toll lanes. The collection of tolls is executed fully automatically either

by deducting from the user’s bank account or charging to the user’s credit card. The

prepaid versions of these cards are also available.

To facilitate easy payment the cards can not only be linked to credit card accounts

but can also be configured as electronic purses. Contactless cards used in the

system comply with common industry standards.

The system which is comprised of entry/exit lanes, control/management centers and

card preparation units, credit replenishing units and banking centers is designed to

operate in a seamless and integrated manner.

Designed for full automatic operation in motorway environments, two levels

Contactless Card Read/Write Terminals (CCRT) are employed in ASELSAN’s smart

card toll lanes to ease the use of the said terminals both by passenger cars and high

trucks.

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ASELSAN Operator Assisted (Cash Based) Toll Collection System

The operator assisted toll collection system is based on “cash transactions” at the toll

gates.

For the closed toll collection systems, magnetic tickets are issued automatically at

entry gates. At the exit gates; the operator receives the magnetic ticket and reads it

by the ticket reader, vehicle is classified by the system, toll is calculated and the

operator receives the payment.

For the open collection systems; at the payment point, vehicle is classified

automatically, toll is calculated and an operator receives the cash payment.

Operator-assisted systems are mostly used by infrequent users, whereas automatic systems require a subscriber base formed in large by daily commuters. All four systems share the following features for a successful highway tolling operation:

Fraud free, completely auditable toll collection in order to minimize toll evasion

24 hour reliable operation under heavy traffic

Lanes-to-center and center-to-center modern LAN/WAN structures

State of the art, reliable and field-proven software at lanes and centers

Automatic vehicle classification and video based enforcement system for minimizing fraud risks

Multilanguage support and convenient configuration for easy deployment in local markets

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Automatic Vehicle & Plate Recognition Systems

ASELSAN’s Automatic Vehicle Recognition Systems have been developed as a homeland security application to assist police and security forces in identifying and tracking black listed vehicles. Along with automatic license place recognition, the system also identifies any desired vehicle features. The system employs state-of-the-art imaging technologies for year round high performance under all weather conditions. Customer requirements for integration with such applications as tolling and access control are efficiently met with industry standard equipment and flexible system architecture. When equipped with required certified sensors, the system enables full traffic enforcement capabilities such as speed and red-light enforcement.

The main capabilities of the ASELSAN’s Automatic Vehicle Recognition Systems are as below:

High day and night time license plate recognition rates under all traffic conditions

Capturing images of all vehicles regardless of missing or illegible license plates

Day and night time vehicle brand and model recognition

Color detection during day time and at night with special illumination

Speed measurement from video images

Enforcement grade speed enforcement with optional radar integration

Section speed control with multiple gantries

Light and heavy vehicle classification

The system features are as below:

The system automatically identifies from images the

License plate number

Brand and model

Color

Speed

True non-intrusive checks are executed under multi-lane free flow traffic conditions

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Vehicle of interest tracking from license plates and/or from brand, model and color

The system provides for centralized management and control as well as nationwide vehicle tracking

A single gantry solution enables full coverage of the carriage way

The client/server architecture enables for easy access from the desired points

System capabilities may be extended with mobile enforcement units.

On Going Projects

Istanbul-Izmir highway project involves a 500 km highway plus the Izmit Bay Bridge,

one of the world’s longest span suspension bridges. The northern part of the highway

is in operation as of 2015. In this project, on the Izmit Gulf Suspension Bridge,

Aselsan provided one of the largest toll plazas of Turkey. In the plaza, 20 tool booths

provide full hybrid service where DSRC tags, Passive RFID stickers, credit cards or

cash are all accepted. The system performs a real-time balance check on DSRC or

RFID accounts in order to provide guaranteed revenues for the operator. If the

balance is not sufficient, the driver is asked to pay either by credit card or by cash. An

automatic license plate recognition subsystem is used as a backup register for all

entries and exits. In order for the government to check the PPP consortium’s

accounts, the system also possesses a shadow tolling scheme. The system’s back

office also provides reporting scheme for the flow of funds between the consortium

and the government.

Northern Marmara Motorway project and the 3rd Bosphorus Bridge– provides an

alternate route for transit traffic around Istanbul. The project also adds a third

suspension bridge over the Istanbul Strait. In this project ASELSAN provided, 9

Multilane Free Flow ETC systems and 9 toll collection plazas. In total, the plaza-

based system has more than 100 full hybrid toll booths.

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Eurasia Tunnel project provides a double deck tunnel for vehicles under the seabed of the Istanbul Strait. Aselsan provides 2 toll collection plazas at both ends of the tunnel. Aselsan is also undertaking the Turkish Highway Authority’s ambitious project to convert lane-based electronic toll collection (ETC) systems to Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) ETC systems. The Second Bridge over the Istanbul Strait has already had the benefits of an MLFF ETC system for more than 2 years. Many more stations are in line to be equipped with MLFF ETC systems throughout the 2000 km highways operated by the Turkish Highway Authority.

Internationally, the most significant project being handled by Aselsan is the modernization of the tolling system on Corridor-10 in the Republic of Macedonia. The company is installing a state-of-the-art, all-electronic tolling system on the seven toll stations on Corridor-10 between the Serbian border and the Greek –Macedonian border.