Holman Engineering developed a Passenger Information & Display System for Olympic Park Railway Station (The venue for the Sydney 2000 Olympics). This project involved the development of a complete system which would inform passengers of when and where the trains were going. This is no small task when you consider that during the 1998 Easter Show period (12 days) there were over 1.8 million passenger movements at Olympic Park Station.

Holman Engineering had 15 weeks to design, prototype, procure components, manufacture, assemble, install and commission a complete system (The total project was successfully completed in the time allowed). The system contains 4 main components:

1. Sixteen electronic signs which are capable of displaying text or graphics (These collectively contain over 300,000 LED’s). The photograph shows the signs out the front of the station which are double sided signs. All our signs automatically adjust the intensity of the signs depending on the ambient light. They use high viewing angle, high intensity (3,000 mcd), amber LED’s.
2. A digital voice annunciator (DVA 2000): which is a computerised voice announcement system which generates and sends automated (CD Quality) voice announcements out to the eleven public address zones of the railway station. This system is tightly integrated with the PA so as to ensure that DVA and manual announcements don’t go out over the top of each other. The one DVA can send different announcements out to different PA zones at the same time.2.
3. A control computer system (hardware and our custom software) which drives all of the signs, gathers information from the SRA’s train con trol system, drives the clocks (analogue and digital) and triggers all announcements through the DVA.
4. A user interface (called Station 2000), which allows multiple users to view (and change if necessary) what is happening. All four of these major components were developed locally by Holman Engineering.