Southend-on-Sea

The UK’s Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (SOSBC) has awarded a contract to Siemens to provide a new hosted traffic management service operating real-time Urban Traffic Control (UTC), including SCOOT adaptive control.

As part of the new seven-year contract, the existing system will be migrated to a new hosted Stratos solution to control traffic signal equipment located at 50 junctions and pedestrian crossings across the town.

Siemens Consultancy Services head Martin Andrews said: "As principal contractor, Siemens provides a management service and full operational support on a day-to-day basis to Southend-on-Sea."

With hosted UTC-SCOOT in place, which brings benefits of scale, improved security and system resilience, while local authorities can be relieved from maintaining their own office-based hardware.

"As principal contractor, Siemens provides a management service and full operational support on a day-to-day basis to Southend-on-Sea."

The technology company will offer assistance in the analysis of UTC operations as part of the new service, and contribute to the development of strategic operational plans, as well as remotely analyse and rectify system faults.

SOSBC team leader of major projects Richard Backhouse said: "Siemens supports SOSBC’s UTC operational objectives by performing the services and provision of support and assistance as required, including a design and consultancy service for all aspects of UTC."

The UTC solution can be operated from any location through a Siemens hosted system.

Year-on-year revenue savings can be achieved by consolidating traffic control infrastructure, which also provides engineers full access to all traffic signal systems.

Siemens will feature its cloud-based Stratos traffic management solution at Traffex 2015 in NEC, Birmingham, taking place from 21 to 23 April.

Image: Siemens will provide traffic management services to SOSBC. Photo: courtesy of Siemens.