TACTICS is a modular, full-featured traffic control system that complies with industry standards delivering a reliable, powerful and, yet, easy to use traffic management system. TACTICS is designed to grow with you, scalable to customer needs.

 

TACTICS is designed around making traffic management and control better than ever before. By combining the features you demand with an attractive, customizable interface TACTICS offers unparalleled traffic management capabilities.

 

TACTICS provides an easy-to-use, secure interface. Loaded with options to support features such as Quick Response, Transit Signal Priority and Map recording and playback as well as ITS devices such as DMS, CCTV and Tempo Ramp Meters. TACTICS offers a full-feature set customizable to fit individual customer needs.

Some of the key features for TACTICS are: easier to use enhanced graphics, customized reporting, advanced engineering tools, enhnaced once-per-second communicatinos, faster start-up and operation, expanded NTCIP operations, Transit Priority for light rail, and multilingual support. TACTICS offers all the modes of traffic control you have come to expect from central systems, and more: time of day, time-based, manual, flash, preemptive/priority and traffic responsive. Siemens has been setting the standard in traffic responsive algorithms.

TACTICS wealth of proven options and advanced features out-performs any other system available on the market.

	TACTICS	Econolite Centracs	Naztec Streetwise	TransCore TransSuite	Kimley-Horn KITS	Peek IQCentral
Map Recording & Playback	x	-	-	-	-	-
Enhanced Quick Response	x	-	-	-	-	-
Compare multiple controller databases	x	-	-	-	-	-
Tempo Ramp Meter support	x	-	-	-	-	-
Parameter History & Rollback	x	-	-	-	-	-
User-defined Favorites	x	x	-	-	-	-
Hyperlinks	x	-	-	-	-	x
Manual Remote Control	x	-	-	x	-	-
Multiple communication protocol support	x	x	-	x	x	-
Traffic Responsive	x	x	x	x	-	-
Center-to-Center	x	x	x	-	x	-
GIS Based Mapping	x	x	x	x	x	x
Multi-Jurisdictional Security	x	x	x	x	x	x
NTCIP Compliant	x	x	x	x	x	x

 

For many traffic management system users the question that arises when a new system is introduced to the market is "why should I upgrade?" The benefits of upgrading versus the cost of implementing a new system can be difficult for many municipalities to calculate.

 

What is TACTICS?

TACTICS is a modular, full-featured traffic control system that complies with undustry standards delivering a reliable, powerful and easy to use traffic management system. TACTICS is designed to grow with you, scalable to your needs. Designed as an upgrade path from the ACTRA Advanced Transportation Management System, TACTICS offers all of the features ACTRA users depend on as well as a rich feature set not available in the ACTRA series.

 

TACTICS Offerings

TACTICS is available in several option packages designed to fit the needs of cities and rural areas. With packages aimed at providing unique traffic control from closed-loop systems, controller database editors and full-fledged central control packages, TACTICS becomes the ideal solution regardless of the size of the system needs.

 

Benefits of TACTICS Features

Feature	Benefit
Customizable User Interface	Easier to use and reduces user fatigue
Enhanced System Status Reporting	Easier to detect and correct system problems
Compare Different Controllers and Upload/Download from Controller to Controller	Reduction of redundant data entry
User defined groups	Users can easily and more quickly locate specific devices
Favorites lists	Quickly access commonly used screens and operations
Quick commands	Quickly access frequently used commands
Parameter History / Reconstruction	Reduction of redundant data entry. Easily correct programming errors.
Configurable Logging levels	Quickly diagnose and resolve system issues
Map Recording & Playback	Verify system operations through recording and review of map graphics
Enhanced Quick Response Operation	Automatically respond to traffic events
Weekday/ Weekend Schedules	Operate in most effective and efficient manner
Hyperlinks	Easily access external documents such as photographs and plans

 

 

For a full list of feature differences see Why Upgrade from ACTRA?