Highway & Network Management

In the UK, Highways England is replacing its legacy National Traffic Information Service monitoring kits. Existing traffic monitoring units (TMU) and Traffic Appraisal Modelling and Economics (TAME) kits can now be replaced with new Clearview Intelligence TMU2 traffic monitoring units which provide improved system and data availability.

Traffic control technology from Swarco Traffic has been installed at the University of Cambridge in England during major construction work on campus. Swarco’s ITC-3 system control heavy vehicle and plant traffic movements while a major two-year building project at the university’s Civil Engineering Department is being undertaken by a local construction firm.

Ver-Mac has launched the WZMC-1000, a fully-automated cloud-based work zone camera system. It comes with an integrated GPS, as well as integrated wifi, a proximity sensor to start-stop recording and voice feedback. The Canadian company, based in Quebec City, says that the easy-to-use low-cost high-definition system allows contractors and agencies a tool to document their projects with very minimal management. It provides high-quality videos along with automatic video transfer and cloud-based storage.

Two SafeZone average speed schemes installed by Siemens in Brighton and Hastings, UK, are recording almost 100% speed compliance. The cameras have been deployed along the seafronts at Brighton and Hastings. The schemes use a combination of visible and invisible infrared lighting which is more sensitive to the effects on local residents and the environment. It’s the first time such schemes have been installed in the county. “Using a collection of cameras along Brighton seafront on Marine Parade and a furt

Good, readable analysis of road surfaces to ensure sufficient maintenance funding is an essential part of asset management. The technical side of ensuring a good road surface is integral to maintaining safe, superior highway infrastructure. But securing sufficient government funding for such work – repairs and new-build – based on the current road surface is also essential. To evaluate road conditions and structure for such a business case, one UK local council turned to software provider Yotta.

Sapphire Utility Solutions, working in collaboration with JHL, has launched the compact Urban Recycler, or CityRECycler 206, for roadside gully cleaning duty. The Urban Recycler has a positive impact on the environment, due to a reduction in both clean water usage and the amount of waste to landfill, according to Colin Kelly, managing director of Sapphire Utility Solutions. The usual approach to cleaning gullies is the deployment of traditional jet-vac units, with limited flexibility and up to 20% of the

Siemens has launched Sicore ll, its next generation ANPR – automatic number plate recognition - camera platform. The launch took place during Traffex 2017 at the NEC exhibition centre in Birmingham, UK, last month. Siemens said that Sicore ll - based on more the company’s 30 years' experience in vision detection and analytics – is robust, reliable and built to last. Sicore ll is for average speed control and enforcement, low emission or clean air zones and access control. “The new Sicore ll platform is

Avery Dennison’s TrafficJet digital print system now includes the CMSpot6 ink configuration. TrafficJet is a complete inkjet printing system for traffic safety and reflective sign producers as well as government agencies that produce signage. The CMSpot6 replaces standard process yellow and black in a CMYK ink set with more durable spot yellow and black inks, according to the company. It provides more durability and eliminates design compromise sometimes seen with using standard highway colours. Tradition

Videalert has added a facility to their hosted digital video platform to identify vehicles by their noxious emissions ratings to help enforce low-emission zone management. Videalert, a UK supplier of traffic enforcement and management solutions, said the addition comes as more UK cities are looking at better enforcement of what is called a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) and Low Emission Zone (LEZ). “While London, Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Nottingham and Southampton now have the powers to begin tackling this issue