Programme title and organizer:

Smart Mobility Series (1): Installation of Traffic Detectors on Strategic Routes in

Hong Kong

Organised by Logistics & Transportation Division

Date, Time and Venue:

November 28, 2017 (Tue), 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the HKIE HQ 9F – Chan Yat Mei

Sophie Room

Speaker(s):

Ir Shirley Leung         Senior Engineer/Survey & Projects,

                                      Transport Department, Government of HKSAR

Ir Gary Leung             Associate, Transportation (Traffic & Transport Planning),

                                      AECOM Asia Company Limited

Programme highlight:

Traffic incident detection and traffic data collection used to require excessive human input. Through the use of advanced traffic detectors, automatic incident detection and automatic data collection continuously at 24 hours a day and 7 days a week could be achieved. In this regard, the Transport Department is going to install various types of advanced traffic detectors on strategic routes in Hong Kong for more efficient response to traffic incidents, provision of more real-time traffic information to the public and building up Big Data for transport in Hong Kong.

In this technical seminar, various advanced traffic detection technologies to be deployed on strategic routes and their application will be introduced.

Registration details:

This seminar is free-of-charge and prior registration is required. The number of participants is limited to 80 and applications will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. For registration, please enroll to charles.so@aecom.com with our standard reply form.

Enquiry details

Ir Charles SO (Tel: 3922 9870)

Smart Mobility Series (1): Installation of Traffic Detectors on Strategic Routes in Hong Kong

By Ms Kimberly Lu

A technical seminar on the installation of traffic detectors on strategic routes in Hong Kong was organized by Logistics & Transportation Division on 28 November 2017.

Ir Shirley Leung from the Transport Department of the Government of HKSAR introduced that traffic detectors would be installed along all the strategic routes in stages by end 2020 to facilitate a more efficient response to traffic incidents, to provide more real-time traffic information to the public, and to build up the Big Data for transport in Hong Kong for transport planning and traffic management.  Since the project programme was tight and the strategic routes were heavily trafficked, the detectors should be non-intrusive and be mounted on existing structures to avoid the need of excavation, and should perform satisfactorily even under adverse environmental conditions, like heavy rain and darkness.

Ir Gary Leung from AECOM Asia Company Limited then explained the three different types of traffic detectors that could fulfill the above requirements and would be employed in Stage 1, which were automatic incident detection (AID) camera, automatic licence plate recognition (ALPR) and Bluetooth detector.  AID camera, which is a combination of thermal and visual cameras, would be used for incident detection and collection of real-time traffic data, e.g. traffic speed and volume.  ALPR has the Optical Character Recognition function and would be used for vehicle classification.  Bluetooth detector, which detects the Bluetooth devices on vehicles, would be used for travel time and sectional speed measurement. 

I was fascinated by the performance of AID. AID cameras can automatically detect various incidents on the road, such as stopped vehicles, slow vehicles, pedestrians, fallen objects and reversed traffic.  I look forward to a more efficient traffic incident management in Hong Kong in near future.

From left to right: Ir Gary LEUNG (Speaker), Ir Shirley LEUNG (Speaker) and LTD committee members Ir Charles SO & Prof William LAM