Feature
Traffic control centers - organization and role in traffic risk and incident reduction
Authors
Athanasios Saramourtsis Electrical Engineer
Athanasios Tsantsanoglou Civil/Transportation Engineer
Evangelos Viskos Civil/Transportation Engineer, EGNATIA ODOS S.A.
Ioannis Benekos Greece's representative of the World Road Association TC 1.5 on Risk Management
"Egnatia Odos" motorway is located in northern Greece and belongs to the core Trans-European Road Network (TERN 1). It is a four-lane motorway route of 658 km in total, starting from the Igoumenitsa Port which provides links by boat to Italy and ending in the Greek-Turkish borders (illustration 1), with a cross section width of 22 m, two traffic lanes and a hard shoulder per direction and a new jersey separating the two directions. It includes 73 twin bore tunnels, with 31 being longer than 500 m mainly located to the western part of the motorway.