MATTISSE enables public access to real-time traffic and travel information, via an innovative traveller information service, on one of Britain’s busiest transport networks. It is also a real-time management system for the urban and inter-urban transport network in Birmingham and the West Midlands.

The Midlands – at the heart of the UK’s road and rail network – incorporates the country’s largest conurbation outside London and suffers from some of the worst traffic congestion in Britain.

MATTISSE – designed, developed and now supported by Mott MacDonald as part of its joint venture with Marconi – has been in use since 1998 as a real-time management system for the urban and inter-urban transport network in the West Midlands and Leicestershire. Initially, the delivery of real-time traffic and travel information was confined to value added service providers but now two services are available to the public – the Help2Travel website and information kiosk and public screen displays in public realm areas. Information on Birmingham’s road and rail conditions are among the most popular pages on the website.

The flexible internet-based solution was developed allowing MATTISSE information to be disseminated to information kiosks, and real time information is now displayed on 22 interactive kiosks in the new Bullring retail centre. CCTV images from Birmingham City Council’s UTC have also been integrated with MATTISSE, and are available to all other MATTISSE Client users, including other Local Authority UTCs.

To see MATTISEE in action visit the Help2Travel website›.

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