Highways Agency awards maintenance contracts to telent

Technology services company telent has won three prestigious five year contracts worth over US$25.4 million with the UK Highways Agency to maintain critical roadside technology across the east, south-east and M25 regions' motorways and trunk roads. telent now manages all routine and reactive maintenance for over 12,000 technology assets, such as emergency roadside telephones, message signs, traffic signal sites, the Highways Agency weather stations, CCTV cameras, tunnels and many more. The company’
June 18, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
Technology services company 525 Telent has won three prestigious five year contracts worth over US$25.4 million with the 1841 UK Highways Agency to maintain critical roadside technology across the east, south-east and M25 regions' motorways and trunk roads.

Telent now manages all routine and reactive maintenance for over 12,000 technology assets, such as emergency roadside telephones, message signs, traffic signal sites, the Highways Agency weather stations, CCTV cameras, tunnels and many more.  

The company’s scope includes developing new ways of working to maintain the technology such as infrared CCTV, implemented as part of the new generation of smart motorways now open on the M25. This, combined with the use of the hard shoulder as a permanent running lane, aims to reduce congestion, ease traffic flow and improve the reliability of journeys.

"We're delighted to be working with the Highways Agency to help keep traffic moving across the East, South East and M25," said Chris Metcalfe, managing director Technology Solutions at Telent.  The M25 alone is 117 miles long and is the second longest city bypass in Europe, with the busiest section already carrying 200,000 vehicles a day. Therefore, it's crucial that a targeted, analytical and cost-effective service is delivered in order to manage a project of this magnitude, and we're proud that we've been able to start this so successfully."
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