Aberdeen Digital Data Deployment (DDD) Project

April 4, 2023


Project Overview

The Aberdeen Digital Data Deployment (DDD) initiative is a Smart Infrastructure project using sensors and video analytics to collate high quality data along strategic travel corridors.

Data is used across city services to enhance operation of the transport network using an ‘Internet of Things’ approach, enabling autonomous intervention to live traffic events. Interaction between datasets, such as air quality and street lighting levels, contributes to public information to influence behavioural change.

Aberdeen City Council (ACC) installed almost 40 IPCCTV cameras with feeds to a central server and control room, enabling full monitoring and review of traffic related issues; this enables enhanced understanding of live and historic traffic information to strategically operate and further develop the transport network and appraise network issues retrospectively.

Why is this Needed?

In developing projects for the 8th City programme Aberdeen City Council (ACC) identified the need for smart infrastructure at key sites across the city to generate data to improve the transport network and reduce traffic congestion.

Other needs and requirements linked to the DDD project were as follows:

  • Deliver and inter-connect data sets for influencing behavioural change.
  • Improve quality of data.
  • Improve transport safety and mobility.
  • Reduce carbon emissions.
  • Support a more reliable public transport system.
  • Increase city productivity.
  • Increase cross service and regional provision.

Impact and Benefits

  • Operators and managers have seen a vast increase in the ability to manage the transport network more efficiently.
  • Data is being utilised to manage the transport network more efficiently through live interventions on congestion and delays.
  • Carbon emissions, safety and productivity were all positively impacted.
  • Aberdeen City Council (ACC) has several strategic priorities which this project corresponds to, notably the Strategic Infrastructure Plan, City Centre Master Plan, Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, and the Single Outcome Agreement.
  • The Digital Data Development project has enabled ACC to deliver data sets available for innovation, including: Air Quality; Journey Time information; and Incident information.

Contact details and further info: 8th_City_PMO@glasgow.gov.uk