Smart Corridor & Traffic Management Center
Twenty-six miles of fiber, cameras and sign gantries now feed one traffic center, built while the corridor stayed open.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Highways & Roads
- Delivery
- Design-build
- Scale
- 26 corridor miles
- Completed
- 2024
Fiber, cameras, sensors and sign gantries along a busy corridor, all feeding a new traffic management center.
The owner wanted a busy corridor that could see itself: cameras, vehicle sensors, message signs and ramp meters, all linked by fiber to a new traffic management center. That meant trenching, boring and setting gantries next to live lanes, then integrating hundreds of field devices with control-room software. A device that is installed but not talking is just a pole on the shoulder.
The approach.
- 01
Lane closures as a plan, not a favor
Night closures were scheduled weeks ahead in blocks, so trenching, boring and gantry picks used every minute the road was ours.
- 02
Fiber with a map
Every splice, vault and strand was documented as built, so the owner’s technicians can find any fault in minutes.
- 03
Devices tested on the shoulder
Each camera, sensor and sign was powered, networked and checked from the roadside before the crew moved to the next site.
- 04
The control room last and best
The traffic center’s video wall, consoles and servers were integrated with every field device and run through live incident drills before turnover.
The outcome.
“The pavement was the easy part. The job was getting every camera on that road to talk to one room.”
Project executive, ScottHarry
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