MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1991
NEW DYNAMIC AREA TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR KOWLOON AND TSUEN WAN
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SYSTEM
A NEW AREA TRAFFIC CONTROL (ATC) THE ACTUAL TRAFFIC FLOW LEVELS ON THE ROAD IMPLEMENTED FOR KOWLOON AND TSUEN WAN.
FULLY
то
RESPONSIVE NETWORK WILL SHORTLY BE
EXISTING KOWLOON
THE NEW SYSTEM WILL REPLACE THE AND WILL ALSO EXTEND ATC TO THE TSUEN WAN NEW TOWN AREA AS STEP IN A PLANNED EXTENSION OF ATC TO THE NEW TOWNS.
ATC
SYSTEM THE FIRST
FOR
AT ALL
THE
FACILITIES THE SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE INCREASED CAPACITY AND CONTROLLING, MONITORING AND EFFICIENTLY OPERATING THE SIGNALS THE JUNCTIONS IN KOWLOON, TSUEN WAN, KWAI CHUNG AND TSING YI OVER NEXT 12 TO 15 YEARS.
THE
UNLIKE THE EXISTING SYSTEM, WHICH PROVIDES GREEN TIMES FOR
OBSERVED HISTORIC TRAFFIC VARIOUS APPROACHES OF JUNCTIONS BASED ON
BE FULLY RESPONSIVE то THE ACTUAL FLOW DATA, THE NEW SYSTEM WILL TRAFFIC FLOW LEVELS ON THE ROAD NETWORK.
THE TRAFFIC FLOW LEVELS TSUEN
BE
AT CRITICAL JUNCTIONS IN THE ROAD WAN NEW NETWORKS OF KOWLOON AND
TOWN WILL
MEASURED BY INFORMATION WILL. DETECTOR LOOPS BURIED IN THE ROAD SURFACE AND THIS
DETERMINE TURN WILL
AND BE SENT TO THE CENTRAL COMPUTERS, WHICH IN
CYCLE OF THE IMPLEMENT THE APPROPRIATE GREEN TIMES FOR EVERY SIGNAL JUNCTIONS CONTROLLED SO AS TO MINIMISE DELAY TO THE ROAD USERS.
SIGNED
THE $143 MILLION CONTRACT FOR INSTALLING THE SYSTEM WAS
COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR PANG TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE DEPUTY HAU-CHUNG, AND A REPRESENTATIVE OF AWA LTD OF AUSTRALIA.
TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SAID STUDIES HAD AN ATC SYSTEM, THE CENT REDUCTION
THE A SPOKESMAN FOR SHOWN THAT COMPARED TO A CASE WITHOUT KOWLOON ATC SYSTEM PROVIDED ABOUT 30 PER TIME FOR THE ROAD USERS IN KOWLOON.
EXISTING IN JOURNEY
FEATURES,
THE NEW AN AREA-WIDE KWAI CHUNG AND
WITH THE UP-TO-DATE DYNAMIC RESPONSIVE SYSTEM WAS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE EVEN GREATER BENEFITS IN
WAN, BASIS FOR ALL THE ROAD USERS IN KOWLOON, TSUEN TSING YI, HE SAID.
THE SYSTEMS WILL HAVE TWO CENTRAL TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTRES, A MASTER ONE IN KOWLOON AND A REGIONAL ONE WAN.
AND MONITORING
IN TSUEN
WILL
WAN TSUEN "UNDER THE CONTRACT, IMPLEMENTATION OF ATC TO BE COMPLETED IN MID 1993.
NUMBERING ABOUT 100 IN "BY THAT TIME, ALL THE SIGNALS,
A TSUEN WAN AND KWAI TSING DISTRICTS, WILL BE BROUGHT UNDER ATC SYSTEM LOCATED IN THE TSUEN WAN CONTROL CENTRE.
THE REGIONAL
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