Southampton City Council has taken delivery of a new mobile enforcement vehicle. Described as a multi-purpose vehicle, it supports traffic enforcement and community safety applications at once and will be used with Videalert’s hosted Digital Video Platform. That was recently installed to introduce CCTV enforcement of bus lanes in key areas of the city.
John Harvey, Highway Manager at Southampton City Council, says: “This new vehicle is easy and cost effective to deploy as it integrates with our existing Videalert enforcement infrastructure. It will be used strategically across the city to enforce a range of parking contraventions and to enhance community safety.”
The vehicle will patrol the city targeting vehicles that stop unlawfully on the keep clears outside schools in response to complaints raised by parents and teachers whose children are being put at risk by parking outside schools. It will also be used to enforce illegal parking at bus stops which delays other road users.
The enforcement vehicle has been procured through Balfour Beatty Living Places which has a ten-year contract to manage highway infrastructure assets on behalf of the city council. According to Brian Hammersley, Contract Manager at Balfour Beatty Living Places: “This innovative mobile solution shows how quick and easy it is to expand Southampton’s existing enforcement activities using Videalert’s Digital Video Platform.”
The vehicle, pictured, features a roof-mounted Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera and two roof mounted cameras that provide ANPR and colour images. Evidence packs will be downloaded from a USB for access and review by council operators for sending confirmed offences to the back office processing system for issuance of fixed penalty notices.
Videalert says its products provide a three click process to review evidence packs and produce PCNs. The packs are automatically created including still images and video footage comprising contextual information and close-ups of signage in the vicinity of the offence. Operators just have to validate number plates before exporting complete evidence packs to the back office PCN processing system.
Tim Daniels, Sales and Marketing Director of Videalert said: “Videalert’s hosted Digital Video Platform shows that it can deliver significant benefits to councils by enabling them to quickly extend enforcement to other areas without having to make further investment in IT infrastructure. This enables councils to achieve the highest productivity and the lowest operating cost to derive maximum benefit from available budgets. With the introduction of this new vehicle, Videalert is now the UK’s only supplier with the ability to provide the full suite of CCTV traffic and parking enforcement solutions comprising attended, unattended and mobile using the same intelligent platform.”
Videalert products are also in use by councils in Portsmouth, Leeds and London, to name three: visit http://videalert.com/about-us/customers/.
