Siemens to modernise Northamptonshire traffic systems

An extensive programme to upgrade Northampton County Council's current traffic systems is about to get underway. Siemens will initially provide Northamptonshire in the UK with the latest PC SCOOT UTC system and replace the existing Prefect system with the company’s recently launched InView hosted fault management solution. Subsequent phases will see the swapping out of all existing analogue TC12 outstations for the latest Siemens UTMC compliant UG405 outstations and ultimately the migration to a new hosted
August 23, 2012 Read time: 1 min
An extensive programme to upgrade Northampton County Council's current traffic systems is about to get underway. 189 Siemens will initially provide Northamptonshire in the UK with the latest PC SCOOT UTC system and replace the existing Prefect system with the company’s recently launched InView hosted fault management solution. Subsequent phases will see the swapping out of all existing analogue TC12 outstations for the latest Siemens UTMC compliant UG405 outstations and ultimately the migration to a new hosted Traffic Management Service solution.

In addition to upgrading to IP communications using ADSL circuits, the contract also covers the maintenance of traffic equipment at approximately 150 junctions and 230 pedestrian crossings for the next four years.
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