The paper describes the new Cologne system approach to integrated urban traffic management. It is a hierarchically organized system with a central management computer and different allocated operative and informative sub-systems. New elements in the Cologne implementation are: a) the integration of urban traffic signal control by MOTION; b) collective driver information based on variable message signs; and c) pre- and on-trip user information systems. The first phase of the system has come into operation in January 1994. (A)
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