SICE ITS, Tunnel and Tolling Systems Integration

On 8 January 2021, SICE turned 100 years old and every day during this last century, SICE has been very present in people’s lives.

WestConnex | Transurban has entrusted SICE to support a complex ecosystem of safety systems by signing a three-year fixed price support contract for the M4 and M8.

WestConnex is the largest road infrastructure project in Australia.

During the first half of the year, SICE has been awarded new contracts in the US that both strengthen and grow the company's presence in the country.

It’s been three years since Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency opened the Waterview Tunnel to traffic in the early hours of the 2 July 2017.

Last month, the new tunnel on Sydney's M4 motorway between Homebush and Haberfield was opened.

On 21 March, three new tunnels managed by the SIDERA software, a platform developed by SICE, opened to traffic on A-23 (Monrepós). The SIDERA-OP platform currently manages and monitors eight tunnels from the Tunnel Control Center in Monrepós.

SICE will be responsible for the delivery of the OMCS head-end system for the M4-M5 Link Tunnels (Stage 3A) and the Integrated OMCS (IOMCS) for the entire WestConnex scheme.

More than 100,000 drivers that used the Alaskan Way Viaduct per day are now able to use the new SR 99 Tunnel to travel to and from downtown Seattle.

The EPE project that includes Advance Traffic Management System (ATMS) and Toll Management System (TMS), will be the first comprehensive ITS system to be implemented in the country and will improve the management, maintenance and flow of the EPE traffic.

For a period of four years and five months, the consortium comprised by Viapass (Cobro Electrónico de Peaje, SA de CV) and SICE will be responsible for the management of the electronic toll collection subject to performance standards in the highway network granted to Mexico’s National Infrastructure Fund (Fonadin).

SICE has been awarded its first contract in Stockholm, Sweden, to deploy traffic systems along 55km of the tunnels currently being built by the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket).

As a company that develops and implements integrated solutions for managing and controlling Smart transportation systems, SICE has provided infrastructure with Smart Systems in over 346km of tunnels.

SICE manages more than 2,500km of roads and 346km of tunnels with SIDERA, SICE’s Tunnel Management Software.

The first field test, which was carried out on 20 February at the A-8 in the presence of the Director-General of Traffic Mr Gregorio Serrano López, demonstrated the system effectiveness.

With a larger exhibition area than in previous years, Intertraffic Amsterdam remains one of the largest and most influential events worldwide concerning smart mobility, infrastructure, traffic management, road safety and parking.

The ITS lighting, signalisation and signing works, required in these projects will be added to those already carried out since the company was established more than ten years ago.

SICE has signed a new maintenance contract with Southampton City Council to maintain the Itchen Bridge Tolling System. This agreement binds both parties for a period of three years, until December 2020.

The New Zealand (NZ) Government claims the 2.5km tunnel, the New Zealand’s longest, will be the biggest change to Auckland’s traffic since the Harbour Bridge was opened.

One of Australia’s largest tollways, EastLink, has successfully switched over to a new state-of-the-art tolling back office system and customer website, provided by SICE, the global intelligent transport systems provider.

This work, together with the agreement signed with Prince for the I-95 project and the last awarding in Orlando, strengthen SICE’s presence in the US within the ITS and toll sectors.

SICE has won an ITS contract to provide lighting, traffic lights and vertical signalling systems to the I-95 highway in Miami.

SICE has strengthened its presence in Central Florida with two new intelligent transportation system (ITS) projects in Orlando.

On 20 April, President of the Republic of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, accompanied by the Minister of Transport, Natalia Abello and Vice President, Germán Vargas, inaugurated the Crespo Ring Road in Cartagena.

CPB Contractors Samsung John Holland Joint Venture has awarded SICE with the contract to the design, construction, installation and commissioning of SICE's proprietary Operation Management Control System (OMCS) SIDERA for WestConnex, Stage 1 in Sydney.

SICE is to exhibit its intelligent signalling system and LIDA devices at this year's Intertraffic Amsterdam exhibition from 5-8 April.

SICE Canada has completed the installation of the Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) along the Rt. Hon. Herb Gray Parkway corridor and the remaining section of Highway 401 (3km), which was opened on 21 November 2015.

Last 30th July, the traffic general director, Ms. María Seguí, opened the new traffic management centre 'Pirineos-Valle del Ebro' at the business park expo Zaragoza, the most modern of the statewide network, capable of controlling more than 2,685km, and 2,000 cameras across the country.

The Well-Connected Alliance have decided to self-perform the delivery of the Tunnel and Traffic Management and Control System (TTMCS) through SICE.

SICE hands over their Smart City Project to the municipality of "Pozuelo de Alarcón" (Madrid-Spain), deploying a "Smart City Management Platform" to integrate several systems, such as management of parking systems, energy efficiency in municipal buildings, intelligent irrigation systems and light sensors.

As a partner in the firm Salam Sice Tech Solutions (SSTS), SICE has been awarded the ‘ATMS on Salwa and Dukhan Highways’ project by Ashgal, Qatar’s Public Works Authority.

On 28 May, SICE and ConnectEast signed an agreement for the development, delivery and maintenance of a new tolling back office system, SICE Billing and Invoicing System (BIS).

SICE has been awarded the contract to deliver the ITS system for the I-75 Express segment E in Miami. Segment E represents one of five Design-Build Projects that together extend from NW 170th Street in Miami-Dade County to I-595 in Broward County.

The South African city of Tshwane has trusted SICE to provide its inhabitants with the benefit of cutting edge technology in the field of advanced urban traffic systems.

SICE has been awarded a specialist sub-contract package for the Operation and Management Control System (OMCS) to be delivered for the M5 West Widening Project.

The Humber Bridge Board (HBB) has recently selected SICE for the complete renovation of the existing Tolling System. SICE will replace the current toll plaza introducing a combination of ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) and ORT (Open Road Tolling) lanes enabling those vehicles equipped with a dsrc transponder (tag) to circulate through the toll plaza without stopping or reducing the speed.

The Port of Miami Tunnel and Access Improvement Project is a major infrastructure project that will provide direct highway access to the Port of Miami whilst supporting its growth and competitiveness. The Port of Miami is currently one of world's busiest cruise ports, also considered a strategic cargo hub for the region and the second largest economic generator for Miami-Dade County.

SICE Inc., a subsidiary of SICE in the USA, has been honoured by the mayor of Miami-Dade County with the Key of the County, as well as with a plaque by the City of Coral Gables. The event took place on December 11th, organized by the Beacon Council, the official organization of economical development of Miami-Dade, and it was a recognition of the expansion of the operations of SICE in the Miami-Dade County along the year 2012.

SICE has been awarded a specialist sub-contract package for the Operation and Management Control System (OMCS) to be delivered for the Tintenbar to Ewingsdale Pacific Highway upgrade.

SICE, in partnership with Mexican OCACSA, has been awarded the agreement to carry out the operation of the highway Atlacomulco-Maravatío, including toll collection, acquisition, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of buildings, facilities, tolling system, electronic tolling, ITS and communications as well as emergency care, right of way management and user services of the highway in compliance with performance standards.