Organisation of Traffic Management
The organisation of traffic management is defined as the assignment, the interpretation, the realisation and the harmonization of the tasks, responsibilities and qualifications of the different stakeholders involved in the policy or operational aspects of traffic management. Often it is a neglected part of traffic management, but in our view a very important one. In this state of the art document (only available in Dutch) we discuss the traffic management process and the organisation of traffic information. Also incident management is described, as an important topic within traffic management, but with a specific organisational structure. The report describes all these aspects and the different stakeholders involved.
Workshop Urban Traffic Management
On July 2nd, 2014 TrafficQuest organised a workshop in which representatives from municipalities, joint ventures and knowledge institutes participated and discussed together about urban trends and the role of traffic management now and in the future. Topic of discussion were the characteristics of urban traffic and urban mobility. What is so special about urban traffic, why is it so complex and what are the differences with motorway traffic? From this starting point several issues were raised that are typical for the current situation as well as the expected developments. These issues were clustered into social-urban problems, urban trends, technological trends and problems that appear when solutions are implemented. Verkeer in Nederland 2014
Visit traffic control room Rotterdam
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TrafficQuest streeft er naar regelmatig een actueel beeld te geven van wat er gaande is in de wereld van verkeersmanagement en verkeersinformatie. De State-of-the-Art achtergronddocumenten spelen daarbij een belangrijke rol, want deze bestrijken een breed scala aan VMI gerelateerde onderwerpen. Echter, ze zijn gedetailleerd en sterk inhoudelijk en ze worden niet regelmatig geactualiseerd. Daarom heeft TrafficQuest besloten elk jaar een rapportage uit te brengen waarin de stand van zaken op het vlak van verkeersmanagement en verkeersinformatie wordt weergegeven. Het 
The topic ‘urban traffic management’ has been getting more attention lately because of the increasing (re-)urbanisation. TrafficQuest is exploring the subject and in that context the TrafficQuest team paid a visit to the municipal traffic control room (‘verkeersregiekamer’) of the city of Rotterdam. Their team presented the state of practice and the latest developments in Rotterdam. There is an extensive monitoring and traffic management program in place. Much of that is concentrated in the traffic control room. TrafficQuest presented three topics related to urban traffic management that the team has worked on this year. The discussion also touched upon how TrafficQuest can help Rotterdam with their traffic management activities. It was a morning well spent, in which we learned much from each other. A knowledge exchange worth repeating!