Transport Infrastructure Ireland is the national operator for all toll roads and motorways in the Republic of Ireland.

TII’s network of motorways spans over 700 miles long, and its highway and rural network is roughly 10 times as large.

TII has invested heavily into detection capabilities on time motorway, but still lacked visibility in the majority of its network. RGTII wanted to expedite detection and response in its motorway network, while also enabling detection of safety events in the part’s of its network that do not enjoy direct camera coverage.

“We had a collision on our motorway and Lanternn picked it up. Literally within 3 minutes of it happening we had the whole thing dealt with because of Lanternn”
– Control Center manager, TII

Using Lanternn by Valerann™, the TII team were able to detect up to 40% additional true and relevant safety events per day.

50% of events detected, were detected by Lanternn on average 25 minutes earlier than by using traditional methods. Importantly, Valerann provided equitable improvements in operations in areas with and in areas without CCTV coverage.

TII together with Valerann deployed Lanternn by Valerann™ into the Motorway Operations Control Centre (MOCC), covering two motorways - the M1 north of Dublin and the M6 connecting Dublin to Cork. The M1 is a busy artery with over 100,000 AADV and dense CCTV coverage, while the M6 is a rural motorway with roughly 30,000 AADV and no CCTV. The total area covered was about 50 miles.

The system integrated with 30 CCTV cameras, HERE, TomTom, Waze, Inrix and Google maps, as well as weather data. The system used machine vision, data fusion and AI to sift through over 11,000 data points a day and surface on average only the 35 most relevant events to the control center. The alerts were coupled with contextual data and historical video footage for rapid validation.