The MATIS project Steering Committee visited the Grupo Brisa Control Centre in Portugal, exploring the systems behind large-scale motorway operations.
Three presentations on infrastructure management
The visit opened in the control centre’s auditorium with presentations by Ana Silvia Santos, Jorge Lopes and Helder Curado. They covered key topics such as operations, innovation and the challenges of managing a national motorway network.
Each session gave MATIS partners direct insight into how an operator of Brisa’s scale structures its decision-making, anticipates disruptions, and integrates new technologies into daily operations.
A control room at network scale
The centrepiece of the visit was the control room itself. The main screen notable for its size visualises live traffic data across the entire Brisa network, making the complexity of real-time coordination immediately tangible.
For MATIS partners, seeing this infrastructure in operation clarified what coordination at scale actually requires: not just technology, but the human organisation built around it.
Cooperation at the heart of innovation
This experience perfectly illustrates the power of European cooperation and knowledge-sharing in driving innovation within the transport sector. Through MATIS, these collaborative moments strengthen synergies between key players and help build mobility solutions that are smarter, more sustainable, and better connected.
