Marseille

Marseille, the oldest city in France, was founded in 600 BC by Greeks from Phocaea. Today, with a population of more than 1.6 million, Marseille is France’s second largest city and forms the third largest metropolitan area after Paris and Lyon. It is a regional centre of culture and entertainment with an important opera house, historical and maritime museums, five art galleries and numerous cinemas, clubs, bars and restaurants.

RTM

RTM (Régie des Transports de Marseille) is a public transport network, functioning 364 days a year and used daily by one in five Marseille inhabitants. RTM’s vehicles cover almost 100,000 kilometres a day: the equivalent of twice the Earth’s circumference.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

Extension of the urban lanes, as well as underground lines, is essential in a city with a high rate of growth and a constrained geography. The Allied Urban Community and RTM together embarked on a major project to extend existing lines and modernise the metro’s video surveillance systems – comprising a network of 700 subway cameras. This major installation project was to start during the summer of 2005.

UTCFS’s solution

UTCFS offered RTM the perfect solution to its needs. By the end of 2009, a video network of 700 cameras will be completed, together with fifteen surveillance sites where the massive input of images can be monitored. The transfer of all this data onto a single system is made possible using UTCFS’s VisioWave system, which is capable of accommodating a virtually unlimited number of cameras. The video surveillance network at RTM remains one of the largest installations of this type undertaken by UTCFS’s local partner, Digisys. With this advanced networked solution, RTM is able to offer a safer environment for its personnel and travellers.