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MMDA Metrobase Traffic Command Centre & Public Traffic Feed

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Operators watch 403 cameras and retime Metro Manila's signals around the clock. The cost of the congestion they manage is still quoted from a 2017 survey, because nobody measured whether any of it helped.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📰 Mediagrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byMetropolitan Manila Development Authority
Scale🗺️ Regional
Cost≈PHP300m (2023 command centre)

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 9 more in Manila · 🚦 Traffic management guide · 🚲 Mobility projects

The MMDA runs Metro Manila's traffic from Metrobase, a round-the-clock control room that Indra rebuilt in 2014 around its Hermes signal system, then expanded in July 2023 into a 300-million-peso command centre watching 403 cameras over 899 km of agency-owned fibre. Operators retime signals remotely, and in June 2025 the MMDA stripped countdown timers from 96 intersections in favour of sensor-actuated ones. It broadcasts conditions as a colour-coded map, but publishes no machine-readable data. JICA priced Metro Manila's congestion at 3.5 billion pesos a day in a 2017 survey.

Live 📅 since 2014

🎓 Lesson

A command centre buys visibility, not capacity. The MMDA can see and retime the network in real time, yet the cost of Metro Manila's congestion is still quoted from a 2017 survey, and no newer measurement has been published.

🚲 MobilityTraffic managementSensors & IoTSafety & security

Sources

↗ JICA — record of discussions on intelligent transportation systems with the MMDAJICA's own wording for the congestion cost: 3.5 billion pesos per day based on a survey conducted in 2017, projected to reach 5.4 billion pesos per day by 2035 without intervention. Also dates the comprehensive traffic management plan and the three-year technical cooperation signed 21 February 2025.
↗ Indra Group — the traffic management system now used in Metro ManilaSupplier account of Metrobase version 2.0 and the Hermes system: awarded 2013, inaugurated 2014, 85 key intersections in the first phase with capacity for more than 500, centralised adaptive signal control and a round-the-clock command and control centre.
↗ Philippine News Agency — the MMDA inaugurates a 300-million-peso command centreState news agency report of the 12 July 2023 inauguration: 300 million pesos, 403 CCTV cameras, 899 km of agency-owned fibre optic network and radio dispatch. Site returns 503 to automated fetching; the same figures are carried by three other outlets.
↗ GMA News — the MMDA installs sensor-based traffic lights and removes countdown timersJune 2025: 96 countdown timers removed from signalised intersections and replaced by sensor-actuated signals, with the MMDA chairman explaining that green time is shortened and reallocated by measured volume. Establishes that the signals are adaptive rather than fixed-time.
↗ Rappler fact check — AI programs are not yet integrated into the new command centreSupports the decision not to tag this entry as AI: the 2023 command centre was launched without the AI analytics it was popularly credited with.
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↗ mmda-traffic-api — a third-party wrapperEvidence that there is no official traffic API: developers built unofficial wrappers around the broadcaster-hosted traffic monitoring feed to obtain segment-level data.
Show your work What this page rests on and what it can’t tell you · all 11 claims with their sources · the forensic record

Evidence Passport · public beta 11 addressable claims, 6 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-88bf892e5429ea28 descriptive
The MMDA runs Metro Manila's traffic from Metrobase, a round-the-clock control room
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The supplier account names the facility and its operating pattern: the project included the construction of "a modern 24/7 Command Control and Communications Center (also known as Metrobase v2.0)", built for the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, which "has inaugurated the new urban traffic signal system of Metro Manila".
Caveat
Supplier self-description. Indra documents the centre it built and staffs the claim of 24/7 operation; no independent source in this entry confirms current staffing levels.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Indra Group — the traffic management system now used in Metro Manila
Claim 2 clm-c837c8331e957cda quantitative
Indra rebuilt in 2014 around its Hermes signal system
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What the mapping says
Indra states "Its core is comprised by the Hermes smart traffic management system, developed by the multinational consulting and technology firm", and that the €5.5 million project "was awarded in 2013 to Indra". The announcement of the inauguration carries a 20 February 2014 dateline, which is where the 2014 date comes from.
Caveat
2013 is the award year and 2014 the inauguration; the page dates itself rather than stating an inauguration date in the body text.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Indra Group — the traffic management system now used in Metro Manila
Claim 3 clm-dba862ef0ca27e87 quantitative
expanded in July 2023 into a 300-million-peso command centre
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What the mapping says
The state news agency reports the July 2023 inauguration of the 300-million-peso Communications and Command Center in Pasig City; the Rappler fact check independently refers to "the MMDA's P300-million command center, inaugurated last July 12". Both pages hard-block automated fetching (HTTP 403 to both a browser user agent and curl), so the figures were confirmed through search result summaries of the same two pages rather than by reading them directly.
Caveat
Reports differ on the exact day of the inauguration (7, 12 and 13 July 2023 all appear across outlets); the entry states only the month, so the discrepancy does not touch the claim.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Philippine News Agency — the MMDA inaugurates a 300-million-peso command centre
  2. Rappler fact check — AI programs are not yet integrated into the new command centre
Claim 4 clm-57f9f4586a6f5b91 quantitative
watching 403 cameras over 899 km of agency-owned fibre
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The state news agency report gives both figures: 403 CCTV cameras feeding the centre, connected over 899 kilometres of fibre optic network described as the largest government-agency-owned fibre network in the National Capital Region. The page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, so both numbers were confirmed via a search result summary of that same article rather than read on the page.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Philippine News Agency — the MMDA inaugurates a 300-million-peso command centre
Claim 5 clm-5ebe0616c6fa2938 descriptive
Operators retime signals remotely
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Indra describes the physical basis: "traffic controllers and traffic light regulators for 85 key intersections, all integrated in a control centre at the Metrobase v2.0 via the Hermes system". The Philippine News Agency report adds that the MMDA can remotely control the traffic lights through the command centre's Intelligent Traffic Signalization System.
Caveat
Indra's figure of 85 intersections is the 2014 first phase, with stated capacity for more than 500; neither source states how many intersections are remotely retimed today.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Indra Group — the traffic management system now used in Metro Manila
  2. Philippine News Agency — the MMDA inaugurates a 300-million-peso command centre
Claim 6 clm-2eae4924b6071987 quantitative
in June 2025 the MMDA stripped countdown timers from 96 intersections in favour of sensor-actuated ones
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
GMA, published 28 June 2025, reports that the MMDA "had replaced their 96 countdown timers in signalized intersections with sensor-based traffic lights that determine when vehicles are supposed to cross". MMDA Chairperson Romando Artes explains that green time measured as unused on an empty lane is cut short and reallocated to the lane with volume.
Caveat
The same report has the MMDA calling this part of an adaptive signalling system "initially implemented in 2012", so June 2025 dates the removal of the timers rather than the start of sensor actuation.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. GMA News — the MMDA installs sensor-based traffic lights and removes countdown timers
Claim 7 clm-ee8411f06287b784 descriptive
It broadcasts conditions as a colour-coded map
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The wrapper documents the feed behind the public display: it is "An API wrapper for TV5-MMDA's Traffic Monitoring API", exposing highways and segments whose traffic status is graded on five levels (L: Light, ML: Light to Moderate, M: Moderate, MH: Moderate to Heavy, H: Heavy) per direction — the segment-severity data that the public map renders as colours.
Caveat
The README documents the severity grades and the broadcaster-hosted feed, but never describes the colour rendering itself; no source listed on this entry describes the public map's appearance.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mmda-traffic-api — a third-party wrapper
Claim 8 clm-c00b5873c9f0670b descriptive
publishes no machine-readable data
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The absence of an official feed is shown by what a developer had to build instead: a third-party wrapper around the broadcaster-hosted TV5-MMDA monitoring feed, "Built to add more useful endpoints", supplying the highway, segment and per-segment traffic endpoints and the direction and status filters that the MMDA itself does not publish.
Caveat
Indirect evidence. The repository demonstrates that developers wrapped a broadcaster feed; it does not itself state that the MMDA publishes no official API.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mmda-traffic-api — a third-party wrapper
Claim 9 clm-6152ab5ac21df071 quantitative
JICA priced Metro Manila's congestion at 3.5 billion pesos a day in a 2017 survey
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
JICA's own wording: "According to a frequently cited JICA survey, because of the traffic congestion, transport costs in Metro Manila alone was estimated to be PHP3.5 billion per day based on the survey conducted in 2017 and was projected to increase to PHP5.4 billion per day by 2035 if no intervention was done."
Caveat
The figure is transport costs attributed to congestion, as estimated by JICA itself and quoted back in its own later release.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. JICA — record of discussions on intelligent transportation systems with the MMDA
Claim 10 clm-3d382772339d2e29 descriptive
The MMDA can see and retime the network in real time
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Indra states the centre yields "more accurate and real-time information accessed at the centre", with signal controllers for the equipped intersections integrated into it via Hermes; the Philippine News Agency report adds the 403 cameras feeding the centre and remote control of the traffic lights through the Intelligent Traffic Signalization System.
Caveat
Both sources describe capability — the supplier's and the agency's own account. Neither measures how much of the network is actually retimed in a given period.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Indra Group — the traffic management system now used in Metro Manila
  2. Philippine News Agency — the MMDA inaugurates a 300-million-peso command centre
Claim 11 clm-694ff5bedaa639c3 quantitative
the cost of Metro Manila's congestion is still quoted from a 2017 survey
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The evidence is the date of the document doing the quoting: JICA's release accompanying the technical cooperation signed 21 February 2025 still reaches for the 2017 figure, calling it "a frequently cited JICA survey" and repeating "based on the survey conducted in 2017" — eleven years after the entry's start year and eight after the survey.
Caveat
This shows the 2017 figure still in current use by JICA and the MMDA; it is not itself a statement that no newer measurement exists.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. JICA — record of discussions on intelligent transportation systems with the MMDA
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
Actor types
regional-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
≈PHP300m (2023 command centre)
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

6 source dossiers

JICA — record of discussions on intelligent transportation systems with the MMDA jica.go.jp · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-4a289462d925cb84
Publisher
Name not classified · jica.go.jp
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web-page · language not classified
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-21
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No archived copy linked
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Open the recorded source note

JICA's own wording for the congestion cost: 3.5 billion pesos per day based on a survey conducted in 2017, projected to reach 5.4 billion pesos per day by 2035 without intervention. Also dates the comprehensive traffic management plan and the three-year technical cooperation signed 21 February 2025.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Indra Group — the traffic management system now used in Metro Manila indragroup.com · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

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src-47343e7884190f95
Publisher
Name not classified · indragroup.com
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-21
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No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
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Open the recorded source note

Supplier account of Metrobase version 2.0 and the Hermes system: awarded 2013, inaugurated 2014, 85 key intersections in the first phase with capacity for more than 500, centralised adaptive signal control and a round-the-clock command and control centre.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Philippine News Agency — the MMDA inaugurates a 300-million-peso command centre pna.gov.ph · 4 linked claims

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src-e42717fc92bdfa26
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Name not classified · pna.gov.ph
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web-page · language not classified
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No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-21
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No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
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Open the recorded source note

State news agency report of the 12 July 2023 inauguration: 300 million pesos, 403 CCTV cameras, 899 km of agency-owned fibre optic network and radio dispatch. Site returns 503 to automated fetching; the same figures are carried by three other outlets.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
GMA News — the MMDA installs sensor-based traffic lights and removes countdown timers gmanetwork.com · 1 linked claim

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src-cedeea9bb84d471c
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Name not classified · gmanetwork.com
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web-page · language not classified
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No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-21
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

June 2025: 96 countdown timers removed from signalised intersections and replaced by sensor-actuated signals, with the MMDA chairman explaining that green time is shortened and reallocated by measured volume. Establishes that the signals are adaptive rather than fixed-time.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Rappler fact check — AI programs are not yet integrated into the new command centre rappler.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-af83fb3672ae54dd
Publisher
Name not classified · rappler.com
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web-page · language not classified
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No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-21
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No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
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Open the recorded source note

Supports the decision not to tag this entry as AI: the 2023 command centre was launched without the AI analytics it was popularly credited with.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
mmda-traffic-api — a third-party wrapper github.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-7ffc33ed054e401e
Publisher
Name not classified · github.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-21
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Evidence that there is no official traffic API: developers built unofficial wrappers around the broadcaster-hosted traffic monitoring feed to obtain segment-level data.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “MMDA Metrobase Traffic Command Centre & Public Traffic Feed” — Manila, Philippines. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/manila-mmda-traffic-command/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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