Swarco scoops city centre signage contracts

Swarco Traffic has signed new contracts with three UK City Councils, Bradford, Durham and Coventry, to install a variety of full matrix and variable message signs (VMS) to manage and control vehicle flows within city centres. Bradford is using a mix of full matrix signs and traditional parking guidance signs; Durham is installing a first tranche of nine full matrix signs to provide driver information to drivers approaching the city; and Coventry has chosen various Swarco technologies to support new park
September 25, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
129 Swarco Traffic has signed new contracts with three UK City Councils, Bradford, Durham and Coventry, to install a variety of full matrix and variable message signs (VMS) to manage and control vehicle flows within city centres.

Bradford is using a mix of full matrix signs and traditional parking guidance signs; Durham is installing a first tranche of nine full matrix signs to provide driver information to drivers approaching the city; and Coventry has chosen various Swarco technologies to support new parking guidance, strategic route and driver information around the city.  

Carl Dyer, technical director for Swarco Traffic, says that the latter is a particularly impressive contract, involving significant design expertise, with the installation of 16 full matrix information signs around the ring road and a further four extremely large full matrix signs on strategic approaches.  In addition there will be 12 parking guidance signs nearer the centre that feature the first use of RGB panels in the UK that permit the use of colours and numbers to indicate car park occupancy.

Installation on all three contracts is already underway or planned for later this year.
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