China's Shenzhen transportation surveillance system exhibits how installations can leverage their analog cameras while creating a state-of-the-art intelligent transportation system.
Solution: Infinova cameras, matrix switchers, fiber optics and DVRs

In China, an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) is considered extremely important for building a nationwide national traffic system. Local city traffic surveillance, including traffic monitoring and traffic control, along with traffic information management are considered the first steps to creating a nationwide system. Cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, are already planning for it.

From the Chinese perspective, such systems go beyond simple monitoring. They understand that the implementation of a municipal traffic system in a major city, including traditional bus transportation, rapid bus transit (BRT), railway transportation, sea shipping, and city light rail system, produces a profound influence on a city's economic development while bringing a national traffic and transportation system one step closer. That's important but the vision doesn' t stop there. One system leads to another. While a local city street surveillance system, comprised of that city's traffic control, traffic monitoring, traffic information management, traffic police response system and comprehensive information transmission, produces the desired effects on a local level, it also can feed into a traffic bureau, which itself can ultimately become the national department for centralized traffic and transportation management, as well as a driver for ITS installation throughout the country.

How Shenzhen Created an ITS System
In Shenzhen, a migrant-rich city of 10 million rich with a strong economy, the city's traffic has been a major challenge. During a Municipal Party Committee meeting of Shenzhen, a program of "Five Changes" was created for developing a new Shenzhen traffic system.