UK infrastructure services provider 6110 Amey, which works in partnership with Birmingham City Council to run the highways maintenance service in the city, has placed an order with 189 Siemens for an upgrade to the latest PC Scoot urban traffic control (UTC) system. The existing analogue data transmission system will be replaced with the latest UTMC compliant UG405 outstations installed in tandem with a new internet protocol (IP) communications network on behalf of Amey as part of their UTMC upgrade project in Birmingham, in the UK.
According to John Sunderland, Amey business director, “The Siemens technical proposal offers Amey the most cost effective solution to help us deliver a fully compliant UTMC system as part of our highways maintenance and management service contract with the city of Birmingham.”
Siemens’ product sales manager, Gary Cox, says the project will provide Birmingham with a long term and sustainable intelligent traffic solution that will significantly reduce the on-going cost of operating the system.
Siemens PC Scoot will provide adaptive traffic control at more than 300 locations across the city’s network. As part of the contract, the company will supply and install the latest UG405 data transmission units in both new and existing traffic signal sites at the same time as wireless communications equipment at traffic signal, sign and CCTV locations as part of the UTMC upgrade project.
The introduction of the Siemens UTMC OTUs and associated instation components will offer improved network management and provide flexibility in communications options through the use of lower-cost IP communications links or sharing existing IP communications infrastructure. Additional system benefits include an enhanced web-based user-friendly interface enabling easy access to all OTU features from the instation and full integration of four Mova 6 streams which may be activated either manually or automatically from the UTC instation.
The Birmingham highways maintenance and management service contract to manage and maintain the city’s roads over the next 25 years began in June 2010. The contract will see a huge investment into the city’s road network and Amey is working in partnership with Birmingham City Council to deliver the contract. The works include refurbishment and improvement of the city’s roads, footways, bridges, tunnels, street lighting and traffic control systems. Across the city, this includes 2,500km of road network, 100,000 street lights, 76,000 trees, 850 highway structures and bridges.
According to John Sunderland, Amey business director, “The Siemens technical proposal offers Amey the most cost effective solution to help us deliver a fully compliant UTMC system as part of our highways maintenance and management service contract with the city of Birmingham.”
Siemens’ product sales manager, Gary Cox, says the project will provide Birmingham with a long term and sustainable intelligent traffic solution that will significantly reduce the on-going cost of operating the system.
Siemens PC Scoot will provide adaptive traffic control at more than 300 locations across the city’s network. As part of the contract, the company will supply and install the latest UG405 data transmission units in both new and existing traffic signal sites at the same time as wireless communications equipment at traffic signal, sign and CCTV locations as part of the UTMC upgrade project.
The introduction of the Siemens UTMC OTUs and associated instation components will offer improved network management and provide flexibility in communications options through the use of lower-cost IP communications links or sharing existing IP communications infrastructure. Additional system benefits include an enhanced web-based user-friendly interface enabling easy access to all OTU features from the instation and full integration of four Mova 6 streams which may be activated either manually or automatically from the UTC instation.
The Birmingham highways maintenance and management service contract to manage and maintain the city’s roads over the next 25 years began in June 2010. The contract will see a huge investment into the city’s road network and Amey is working in partnership with Birmingham City Council to deliver the contract. The works include refurbishment and improvement of the city’s roads, footways, bridges, tunnels, street lighting and traffic control systems. Across the city, this includes 2,500km of road network, 100,000 street lights, 76,000 trees, 850 highway structures and bridges.
