RSS1134 Siemens has announced that Surrey County Council in the UK is continuing to upgrade urban traffic control (UTC) with modern digital communications equipment following the deployment of the company’s latest UTMC-compliant outstation transmission units (OTUs) at a further 25 analogue sites. Working closely with Surrey’s traffic engineers to commission the new Siemens technology, the full programme to upgrade all 100 UTC sites is planned for completion in the coming weeks.
According to Surrey’s senior engineer for the network management team, Tim Brown, investment in the new technology will reduce communications costs for the authority and improve reliability. “With a number of analogue sites controlled by UTC showing signs of ageing and proving increasingly unreliable, we recognised that a shift to digital communications from Siemens would deliver improvements and savings to the county’s traffic control operation,” he said.
According to Surrey’s senior engineer for the network management team, Tim Brown, investment in the new technology will reduce communications costs for the authority and improve reliability. “With a number of analogue sites controlled by UTC showing signs of ageing and proving increasingly unreliable, we recognised that a shift to digital communications from Siemens would deliver improvements and savings to the county’s traffic control operation,” he said.
