INTERTRAFFIC AMSTERDAM
April 25, 2012
TDC Systems would like to thank all the visitors to our stand at Intertraffic Amsterdam for making it our most rewarding and successful exhibition to date.
TDC took the opportunity to demonstrate new technology that has been developed over the last 12 months including Air Quality Monitoring, Bus Priority Systems and the 2nd Edition HI-TRAC Blue®. Despite TDC’s market-leading innovation in journey time analysis, it was our weigh-in-motion solutions that proved to be the most popular product on offer.
If you missed the chance to visit TDC at...
TDC’S RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY
April 25, 2012
TDC Systems have recently undertaken extensive testing and development sessions with Professors from Bristol University in their anechoic chamber antenna testing facility.
Utilising multi plane rotation inside the chamber and complex mathematical analysis tools, Bristol University was able to provide full 3 dimensional polar plots not only of the individual antenna, but also the antenna inside its local environment of the enclosure.
The information provided by these sessions has confirmed that the current antenna theory used by TDC Systems is the best way of communicating with devices of an unknown...
6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEIGH-IN-MOTION IN DALLAS, USA
April 23, 2012
TDC Systems are proud to announce they are major sponsors of the 6th International Conference on Weigh-in-Motion in Dallas, USA running from June 4-7th. The conference is held roughly every 4 years and this year is being held in conjunction with the bi-annual NATMEC 2012 conference.
TDC will be exhibiting at this venue and will be show casing a number of products from their extensive portfolio at Booth number 212 so please come and visit us . In addition TDC will also be presenting a paper at the ICWIM6 conference.
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INTERTRAFFIC - TDC SYSTEMS 2012
March 22, 2012
Sustainable Transport Initiatives from TDC To Be Showcased at Intertraffic
For the last two decades TDC Systems has been a leading designer and manufacturer of a range of traffic monitoring technologies including weigh-in-motion systems and traffic counters and classifiers. With the current and future demands for sustainable transport initiatives, TDC has in recent years been engaging with its customers and developing solutions to meet the real-time needs of Intelligent Transport Systems.
One such example was the introduction of the TDC Systems HI-TRAC® BLUE...
TDC SYSTEMS AND SOLAGEN COMBINE FORCES TO DETER SPEEDING CYCLISTS
March 22, 2012
Bristol City Council had identified a problem caused by speeding cyclists on a dedicated cycle pedestrian lane approaching a cross roads near to a school.
Cyclist approaching were unable to have a clear line of sight of the cross roads and were unable to take evasive action when travelling at high speeds.
Using TDC’s ultra low powered CMU, cycle monitoring unit, to generate a speed activated trigger to a LED sign which is only activated when a cyclist is travelling in access of 18mph. The CMU uses established piezo-electric sensors...
DORSET LOW COST VEHICLE ACTIVATED SIGN
March 22, 2012
TDC Systems has recently developed a low cost vehicle activated sign for a temporary diversion route set up for bridge improvements works in collaboration with Joe Allen at Dorset County Council.
The requirement is for a system to stop long heavy vehicles entering a narrow section of road on a steep hill whilst a similar vehicle is climbing the hill. The system needs to be solar powered with very low power consumption as this installation is of a temporary nature with mains power being a costly option.
The system comprises...
AIR QUALITY MONITORING
March 22, 2012
Local authorities in the UK have statutory duties for managing local air quality under the Environment Act 1995 and in Northern Ireland, under the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002.
One of the biggest causes of air pollution in the UK is traffic pollution and TDC Systems Ltd take this issue seriously and have a number of products available to monitor vehicle emissions at the roadside.
Two recent projects TDC Systems have been involved in are with Stockport Metropolitan and Reading Borough Councils. Stockport have recently purchased over 30...
BUS PRIORITY TRIAL: A SUCCESS
March 22, 2012
The trial of TDC Systems HI-TRAC UTC-L (BP) designed in partnership with 2020 Liverpool has proven to be a success.
The system was installed in April 2011 on a 3 armed junction in Liverpool. A set of two detector loops were installed ahead of a bus stop and the associated bus profile units were installed within the traffic signal controller. The detector loops and profile units are set to detect buses and send an output to the traffic signal controller, which is programmed to extend the green signal...
TDC SYSTEMS WINS £1.8M CONTRACT FOR HIGH SPEED WEIGH-IN-MOTION IN KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
January 19, 2012
TDC Systems has won a major contract for the supply of 20 high speed Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) systems for overweight pre-selection and enforcement.
The Ministry of Transport for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is committed to improving road safety and for protecting Bridges and the Highways from the damage caused by overweight vehicles.
In support of these objectives, the TDC Systems weigh-in-motion system, which comprises the industry standard HI-TRAC® 100+, the HI-TRAC® Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera and the Kistler Lineas® quartz crystal WIM sensor, will be deployed...
TDC SYSTEMS AND CLOUD AMBER PARTNERSHIP WINS TENDER FOR TRAFFIC COUNTER CLASSIFIER SYSTEM
January 19, 2012
TDC are pleased to announce their recent tender success in Wrexham, replacing the existing network of traffic counters with the HI-TRAC® UTC L; TDC Systems latest low powered GPRS enabled counter classifier. This tender and interest from many Authorities have driven a partnership between TDC and Cloud Amber.
The Cloud Amber UTMC compliant common database provides an open standard data store to collect and disseminate traffic and transport information from existing or new UTMC sub systems. It also provides Traffic Managers with the ability to develop better, integrated traffic and transport...
HI-TRAC BLUE V2 - THE NEXT GENERATION
January 19, 2012
TDC Systems are proud to announce the release of HI-TRAC BLUE v2, Bluetooth® MAC Address Reader.
Following on from success of being the first to market a complete traffic specific Bluetooth Journey Time device in the UK, and being the only exhibitor of this technology at Traffex in March 2011 with the original HI-TRAC BLUE; TDC Systems have continued to develop on their cutting edge technology.
From customer feedback it became clear that customers were interested in deploying the same system in both permanent and temporary installations. Although...
TDC SYSTEMS LAUNCH NEW HI-TRAC® ANPR SOLUTION
January 19, 2012
TDC Systems HI-TRAC® ANPR solution is the latest innovation to combine Weigh In Motion (WIM) data with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) in one easy to use application with the end user in mind.
Using a TCP/IP network of ANPR cameras and HI-TRAC® 100+ WIM system with Contextual overview camera the HI-TRAC® ANPR software can simultaneously pair the WIM vehicle records with the ANPR information and overview image and display this information intuitively to the end user.
Having this information stored in a SQL database for easy interrogation also enables...
TDC AUSTRALIA
January 19, 2012
TDC Systems Limited is proud to announce the opening of the TDC Systems Pty Ltd office in Brisbane, Australia. The primary focus of the office will be to provide customer support for our existing customers in the Australasia region and seek new business opportunities. The office will also provide technical and development resources for new current and projects. Trading in Australia will continue through our Australian distributer, Trakblaze Pty Ltd.
TDC has a number of customers in the Australasia region. The high profile, West Gate Bridge, 8 lane weigh-in-motion project...