The Shikoku Regional Development Bureau established Shikoku Block Road Information Control Center to univocally control 1) the registration and updating of traffic regulation information for roads in the area (disasters, prior traffic regulations, construction works, etc.), and 2) the monitoring and operation of various information collecting systems, 24 hours a day, to correctly and rapidly control and utilize road information. The Center not only collects information on national highways, which are under direct control of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, but cooperates with public road corporations in the area, Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority, the governments of Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kochi Prefectures, police, and fire-fighting stations to collect wide ranges of information and to increase the efficiency in road management.
The establishment of the Shikoku Block Road Information Control Center enables univocal collection of real-time road information, integrated operation of road information boards, univocal control of information provision history, integrated information provision levels in offices, and collection of information of roads in a large area including those under the direct control of the Ministry and Land, Infrastructure and Transport, public road corporations, and Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority.
The Center is also providing road users with real-time information through the Internet website, mobile phones with Internet access, VICS, and other information provision devices. Due to its rapid information provision, the number of access from mobile phones is 180,000 per month on the average of all pages.
Shikoku Block Road Information Control Center
