The main settlements of South Yorkshire (UK) grew up around the old industries of mining (coal) and steel manufacturing. With the decline and fall of these industries in the 1980s and 1990s, unemployment in the region rose sharply, catapulting South Yorkshire onto the list of the least prosperous areas in western Europe. Regeneration was an absolute must and an improvement of the existing transport network a key pillar of the economic regeneration action plans. As part of the transport scheme, the disparate systems and outdated tools used to monitor traffic would be replaced by innovative, sophisticated technology, bundled together in a brand-new Traffic Control Centre.

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