Urban Traffic Control (UTC)


Urban Traffic Control Graphic


Hampshire County Council, Southampton City Council and Portsmouth City Council extensively use an Urban Traffic Control system supplied by Siemens.

The UTC system provides a centralised database of information relating to many aspects of traffic control, including:

  • Details of the current status of Traffic Equipment such as traffic lights, enabling the use of SCOOT as a signal management and control system.
  • Fault detection/reporting relating to on street equipment.
  • Real-time and predicitve car park occupancy information

The UTC system represents the 'hub' of information flow, pulling information from on-street equipment and pushing it out to other systems like Voyager, Argonault & COMET.