MMDA launches Traffic Signalization System

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has launched its newest initiative to ease traffic situation in the Metro – the Traffic Signalization System.

The Traffic Signalization System (TSS), is MMDA’s new traffic management network that is capable of monitoring 400 intersections in Metro Manila using state-of-the-art equipment and software.

MMDA TSS_photo bureau_rappler
Image credit: Malacañang Photo Bureau

The system, which is housed inside MMDA’s new Command and Control Center in Makati City, will utilize upgraded traffic signal facilities in 85 priority intersections, 25 high-definition CCTV cameras, 36 units of 45-inch displays, and its own system management software. “It can analyze and consolidate information for faster mobility, improved road safety, optimized vehicle flow and pedestrian movement, and reduced travel times,” said MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino.

President Benigno Aquino III, who was present at the launch, gave an example on how the TSS will tackle heavy traffic. “Kung nakita sa CCTV camera na puno ng sasakyan sa isang kalsada, at maluwag naman sa kabila, maaaring kontrolin mula sa Command and Control Center ang tagal o bilis ng pag-ilaw ng green at red lights sa mga intersection, upang mapaluwag ang mga daan dahil magiging mas-efficient ang pagdaloy ng trapiko.”

The Traffic Signalization System (TSS) is currently at Phase 1 and costs more than Php295 million. The President is expecting the project to reach its final phase (Phase 3) in 2016.

{via: Rappler, Interaksyon} {source}

Diangson Louie

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29 Comments

TacticalNinja says:

11 years ago

Nasa disiplina parin ng mga drivers yan, at mga matitinong traffic enforcers.
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SirJacko says:

11 years ago

Agree.

OUR Php295M will go down the drain because of undisciplined BUS, JEEP, TRICYCLE, TRUCK, TAXI DRIVERS. We don’t need a system to see that these (mostly) PUVs are @holes!!!

– from a walking road-rage time bomb

Zobel says:

11 years ago

Manila was inferiorly planned. I say nuke it and start over.
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booby says:

11 years ago

oh gahd, I somehow agree. if only there is a way to demolish every poorly planned district in the Metro and start urban planning from scratch. Syempre sineryoso ko yung nuke part, haha, edi hindi pwedeng tirhan ang buong metro manila for quite a long time.. hehe

BratpPAQ says:

11 years ago

295 milyones! Tapos mababalewala dahil override din ng mga enforcers yung traffic light.
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Paul says:

11 years ago

High technology(?) + Old dogs who cannot operate it well = EPIC FAIL

Also, please show us at least an inventory of what PHP295M has provided you. Are there any proof on this: “It can analyze and consolidate information for faster mobility, improved road safety, optimized vehicle flow and pedestrian movement, and reduced travel times”?

Are there high-speed computers involved in these operations? Or merely a bunch of LED TV’s in-place? Is TSS all about computers doing the analysis or merely MMDA’s themselves doing the watch?

I hope MMDA will educate us more on how the whole system will operate and function. :)
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Bob Reyes says:

11 years ago

This is just a part of the solution to the ever worsening traffic in Metro Manila. Number 1 solution for me is still motorists education and discipline.

There are a lot of motorists in Metro Manila who should not had been issued with a Driver’s License in the first place. A lot still thinks that the traffic lights are just suggestions and it’s optional if you’re to follow.
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pong says:

11 years ago

Dag-dag nyo din dyan yung mga pulis at mmda mismo na mahilig mag break ng trafic rules
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kramburger says:

11 years ago

“Kung nakita sa CCTV camera na puno ng sasakyan sa isang kalsada, at maluwag naman sa kabila, maaaring kontrolin mula sa Command and Control Center ang tagal o bilis ng pag-ilaw ng green at red lights sa mga intersection, upang mapaluwag ang mga daan dahil magiging mas-efficient ang pagdaloy ng trapiko.”
– so dapat makikita rin nila kung ano ang cause ng traffic (public utility vehicles, traffic enforcers.)
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wew says:

11 years ago

kahit nung una pa lng naman eh nakikita na nila ung cause ng traffic kahit simpleng cctvs lng at di pa centralized ung system pero d p rin nagagawan ng paraan kaya duda ako kung gaganda talaga ung daloy dahil dito.

Abudaldal says:

11 years ago

We shouldn’t be too negative. The only way we can improve our lives is through innovation. Let’s just embrace it because at the end of the day, we will benfit from it. What if given a chance you become a president, lower your pride a bit, we’re not even capable of running the country, and he is.
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bob says:

11 years ago

Weird. 85 intersections pero 25 lang ang CCTV? Im not sure pero di ba dapat at least 1:1 ang CCTV every intersection? ahh, baka may existing CCTVs na yung ibang intersection? :|
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wew says:

11 years ago

this is just the phase 1 of 3 of the whole project, ang alam ko eh makukumpleto ung buong project sa 2016

`no3L says:

11 years ago

Finally! May ganyan na din ang MMDA, I was disappointed and at the same time proud dahil kahit sa Makati ay wala pa ganitong technology kasi medyo matagal na sa Davao City ang ito which is paterned in the US (including our Centrall 911 emergency reponse team) and part of the 1B project ng city to prepare the city in the future :)
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Azce says:

11 years ago

proud davaoeño.. :)
wew says:

11 years ago

@`no3L ang alam ko may ganito na rin ang makati mas advanced pa nga un dito eh sa pagkakaalala ko nabalita n rin un
`no3L says:

11 years ago

yep, meron na rin sila…bago lang din, last 2013 lang ata pero same technology (kasi ibinalita sa TV, yung dito hinde) pero ang sa Davao eh around 5 years na active…mas naimprove pa nga ngayon kasi nakipagpartner ang IBM – firsr smart (literal) city ang Davao buong Asia ;)
mon says:

11 years ago

May ganyan sa Makati. Kita sa CCTV mga mayor na pasaway.