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VOSA; the UK Vehicle & Operator Services Agency, along with its partners (Civica and Applied Traffic) have won the Intelligent Transport Society (ITS) Technology Award for Excellence for their VIPER traffic intelligence solution.
The award was made at the recent ITS World Congress held in London's Excel Conference Centre on 12 October and was presented by the former Transport Minister Steven Norris.
A pilot scheme utilising Civica's ANPR technology and TDC Systems Ltd HI-TRAC 100 high speed weigh-in-motion (HSWIM) technology which was supplied by their agents; Applied Traffic, operated on a stretch of the M6 motorway near Birmingham and achieved a 700% improvement in identifying and prohibiting overweight vehicles.
The joint programme by VOSA; the Highway Agency (HA), the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Central Motorway Police group (CMPG), the pilot scheme operated between June 2004 and December 2005. The results were impressive with over 95% of overweight vehicles identified and stopped leading to a prohibition being issued and the vehicle taken off the road.
The system is a unique innovative solution that is a combination of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) technologies that enables the automatic recording and detection of overloaded vehicles at the roadside.
Stephen Tetlow, VOSA's chief executive, said "Using this technology gives us the ability to target unsafe vehicles accurately and consistently, which not only improves road safety but also reduces the burden on law-abiding operators. Winning this award reflects the hard work of the VOSA team and our partners in introducing the new system."
Mr Malcolm Jones of VOSA (left) and Mr Mark Phillips; MD TDC Systems Ltd (right), with the ITS Award
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