For the past several years, Barco has been working hand-in-hand with major transportation and traffic management agencies to improve inroads to Rio de Janeiro and connection with surrounding cities. With millions of visitors expected in August, the city has worked hard to upgrade its infrastructure to meet the demand for increased travel.

With proven expertise in advanced visualization solution for 24/7 control rooms focused on monitoring traffic and managing public transit systems, Barco has successfully completed many projects to help agencies enhance situational awareness to keep vehicles moving smoothly and safely:

CCR AutoBAn ensures the road safety and management of two major highways north of São Paulo, Brazil. Since 1998, the company has invested heavily in the Anhanguera-Bandeirantes road system, with a special focus on safety and security. Both highways combined handle on average 850,000 vehicles per day. In order to monitor traffic in the most efficient way, CCR AutoBAn replaced its outdated visualization tool in the control center with a 7 x 2 70' OV-708 video wall. Thanks to Barco´s video-streaming decoding expertise, the company can now display a larger amount of images simultaneously, without losing any details or image quality.

SuperVia CCO, the operator of Rio de Janeiro's railroad service, transports around 540,000 people on a day-to-day basis. To ensure the quality and safety of the railroad network, the company monitors the traffic and stations from its Operational Control Center (CCO). To stay on top and ahead of the game, SuperVia profoundly redesigned its CCO in 2011, making use of Barco knowledge and technology. The new CCO features a video wall composed of 7 x 1 80'' OVL-815 modules. In addition, a wall with NSL-4621 tiles was set up in the crisis room, and the Control Center of Energy was equipped with a 4 x 1 80'' OV-D2 wall for power visualization control.

Concessionaria Auto Raposo Tavares (CART) has been managing and maintaining a critical part of the 2 million km network of Brazilian highways, the fourth largest system in the world: the 444-km Brazilian Raposo Tavares highway southwest of São Paulo. Committed to delivering the best possible highway services, CART has invested heavily in the road system, with a special focus on ensuring road safety and security. Barco's video wall solutions help CART provide excellent safety services: at the Operational Control Center (CCO), operators monitor the highway on a giant LED-lit Barco wall, while in the Security control room, all the CART facilities are visualized on an NSL wall.

Arteris With a staggering 3,250 km of highways under its supervision, Arteris S. A. is one of Brazil's largest toll road concession holders. Through its nine concessionaires, the public services company manages highways located in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná and Santa Catarina. Arteris operates nine Operational Control Centers (CCO) that monitor all the highways 24/7. When Arteris started deploying Intelligent Transportation System - ITS - technology in the five CCOs of its federal concessionaries, it negotiated high-end Barco video walls to support traffic monitoring. The devices help Arteris fulfill its mission of assisting in ensuring efficient and safe traffic flows.

About Barco Brazil

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