009048 - Back Office Traffic Management System

Description

The Tyne and Wear UTMC facility operate a large network of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras on behalf of the North East Combined Authority (NECA). The ANPR back-office system is used to derive journey times and car park occupancy, the system as of April 2025 currently: • Accepts data from over 478 ANPR Cameras • Calculates travel times for over 466 Journey Time Links • Calculates occupancy for over 21 Car Parks & Park and Ride locations Data for camera faults, journey time links and car park occupancy are outputted on a user interface and to the UTMC Common Database to help alert staff of faults, inform users of live travel times, change traffic signal timings and set variable message signs. The data transfer is currently sent to UTMC via outdated CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) adapters. Several reporting tools in the back-office system are used by the UTMC and Car Parking Services teams, for example, to determine when a vehicle entered/exited a car park including duration of stay. The current network of ANPR cameras communicate to the back-office over: • 2.5G (GPRS) • 4G (LTE/LTE Advanced) • 5G (NR-SA/NR-NSA) Communications are via a private APN using fixed IP addresses from Mobius Vodafone/Telenor or via Northumbria Police O2 contract. All data that is sent to the server conforms to standard UTMC protocols for ANPR data objects. The current ANPR back-office system, Cortex, was developed and installed in 2013. The current system is hosted at Northumbria Police on behalf of UTMC. Cortex as a system is still functional. Unfortunately, the system no longer supports the functions that the UTMC require, several features have also ceased to function correctly. The system is also no longer supported due to the current supplier ceasing trading and does not conform to latest web security standards. UTMC are looking to procure a next generation ANPR back-office system that provides the same current functionality, but with the following improvements: • A secure, maintainable and supported system conforming to the latest software and security standards. • Re-enable functions which have ceased working. • Added functionality and flexibility to support additional cameras, car parks and journey time links. • Potential for future development of the system such as detailed Origin and Destination reporting platform. ANPR back-office system is preferred to be hosted on servers at a Northumbria Police facility on behalf of the UTMC. The servers and software must be able to cope with existing and future demands as the system expands and keep up to date with current and evolving data security requirements. The supplier would be required to provide maintenance and support of the back-office system. We are interested in understanding more about the market with regards to this requirement. If you feel you