Siemens Mobility has been awarded a 10-year contract by Renfrewshire Council to upgrade and expand the Scottish council area’s traffic control system.
Covering 66 controlled sites across Renfrewshire, which includes both Paisley and the Braehead shopping and entertainment complex, the contract will see Siemens Mobility replace Renfrewshire Council’s existing, locally hosted urban traffic control (UTC) system with the company’s latest cloud hosted UTC-UX solution.
The company will also upgrade the outdated analogue communication links to the on-street traffic controller infrastructure across the region.
Connected to Renfrewshire Council’s traffic signals at junctions and crossings, the system will collect traffic data from on-street detectors and provide an accessible, reliable and efficient urban traffic control system to optimise the flow of traffic at controlled junctions and reduce delays to drivers, said Siemens Mobility.
The new system will support real-time adaptive traffic control using SCOOT (Split, Cycle, Offset Optimisation Technique) at 30 junctions.
What’s more, throughout the migration to the new hosted solution, there will be no break in availability at sites currently operating under SCOOT control.
As part of the upgrade Siemens Mobility will design, supply and install a new digital internet protocol based communications network, installing the company’s latest Stratos Outstation Units.
This will enable Renfrewshire Council to use its hosted Stratos traffic management system with the Stratos Traffic Signals Module to monitor 66 locations.
Wilke Reints, managing director of Siemens Mobility’s ITS business in the UK, said: “With the introduction new and innovative systems, we are enabling organisations like Renfrewshire Council to get the most from their operations, adding intelligence to their existing infrastructure and ultimately delivering an enhanced and more predictable experience to road users.”
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