Indra is to deploy traffic and tolling technology on Atlanta’s SR 400 express lanes.

The Spanish firm will roll out its traffic management platform, communications, intelligent traffic systems (ITS), dynamic operational back-office and open road tolling (ORT) to increase safety and provide a better service for travellers.

Indra will be the technological partner of the SR 400 Peach Partners consortium made up of ACS Infrastructure Development, Acciona and Meridiam, which has been selected by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDoT) and the Georgia State Road & Tollway Authority (SRTA) to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the project in Atlanta, the third fastest growing city in the USA, over the next 55 years. 

Indra’s technology will support the management of traffic and implement a dynamically priced ORT managed lanes system along more than 26km of highway.

The technology will be deployed in the cloud, and it will incorporate methods to make traffic predictions, enhance vehicle classification, improve efficiency and reduce maintenance costs.

“The technology that we will deploy in SR 400 express lanes will create a new era of sustainable mobility,” said Raúl Ripio, Indra’s managing director of mobility. “The new express lanes will be optional and facilitate advanced and flexible mobility, reducing congestion and emissions and enabling travellers to enjoy excellent service and absolute safety. It isn’t the future, it’s the present, and a country as technologically advanced as the USA is committed to it.”

Indra (www.indracompany.com) has a long-standing presence in the USA and the SR 400 is not Indra’s first mobility project in the country. For instance, the company has also equipped the I-66 Outside the Beltway express lanes in Virginia with ORT system, automatic high occupancy vehicle (HOV) detection, and lidar and connected vehicle technologies, a project for which it received the IBTTA Toll Excellence Award.

Indra is also deploying innovations on the I-485 in North Carolina and the I-95, I-495 and I-395 interstates in northern Virginia.