SCOOT

SCOOT - Split, Cycle and Offset Optimisation Technique is the world's foremost traffic adaptive software, successfully running the traffic networks in more than 180 towns and cities around the globe.

Peek has been involved with the implementation, design and enhancement of SCOOT since the early 80's, and has installed and commissioned more than 70 SCOOT traffic management systems in such notorious traffic hot-spots as Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Delhi and Birmingham.

 

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Peek is now supplying the latest, most innovative version of SCOOT - MC3. This version removes the requirement for second-by-second communications, and opens up the way for the utilisation of more cost-effective communications pathways, such as GPRS and MESH wireless technologies, whilst still being fully backwards compatible with legacy communications systems.

SCOOT MC3 is fully integrated with Peek's traffic management system, and our enhanced displays of SCOOT parameters significantly reduce the time required to validate a SCOOT network.

SCOOT systems utilise on-street detection, upstream of the stop line, thus effectively modelling queuing behaviour and traffic dispersion when the signals turn green. SCOOT works to reduce the sum of the queues in the network, by making many, small adjustments to green splits, the cycle time running and the offsets between junctions.

Peek SCOOT fully supports the following features :-

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  • Public Transport Priority through the use of Automatic Vehicle Location Systems.
  • On line Model storing and updating information on flow profile, queue data, degree of saturation and congestion.
  • Five optimisers: Split for relative stage durations, Offset for improving co ordination along links, Cycle time for a region which is updated every few cycles, Emissions for pollution monitoring, and Bus for the allocation of levels of priority to public service vehicles.
  • Full detector monitoring.
  • Numerical and graphical output on delay, queues at green, flows, and other messages are available on link, node or region basis.
  • On line SCOOT parameter changes.
  • Full implementation of stop line information for a link to accurately predict and model turning traffic is now provided by use of data from detectors downstream of an intersection. No additional loop sitings to that required for the standard SCOOT operation have been necessary.
  • Status of traffic lights is fed back into SCOOT program, to facilitate use of "demand dependency" within SCOOT.
  • Gating or action at a distance a method of restricting inflow of traffic into a congested area.
  • Congestion offsets and use of another links congestion information is possible.

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