Southampton City Council is introducing CCTV enforcement of bus lanes in key areas of the city using Videalert’s DfT Manufacturer Certified hosted product. The new fixed bus lane cameras will go ‘live’ on June 20.
According to Paul Walker, Travel and Transport Manager at Southampton City Council: “This project will enable us to reduce the incidence of vehicles misusing bus lanes. Automating the enforcement of these contraventions will improve driver compliance, allow our public transport services to achieve faster, more reliable journey times and improve access to services for vulnerable road users.”
The Videalert product was procured through Balfour Beatty Living Places (BBLP) which has a ten-year contract to manage all highway infrastructure assets on behalf of the city council. Brian Hammersley, Contract Manager at BBLP, said: “This is our first experience of working with Videalert and we have been impressed with the speed with which the solution can be deployed. In our role as highways contractor for Southampton, we also liked the ability of the Videalert platform to support other potential CCTV activities that the council may consider using.”
Videalert’s hosted platform does not require any hardware or software to be installed on customer premises and allows for unattended traffic enforcement services. Under this contract, Southampton will deploy cameras and processing units at locations with particular driver non-compliance. Evidence packs will be automatically retrieved via a cellular 3G/4G connection for access and review by council operators for sending confirmed offences to the back office processing, for the issuance of PCNs (fines). Videalert is providing Southampton with a dedicated virtual server for security and integrity with cloud storage used for back-up.
Tim Daniels, Sales and Marketing Director of Videalert, said: “This innovative hosted enforcement solution allows councils to respond faster to operational and strategic requests for deployments over both the short and long-term. It also provides councils with greater flexibility and future investment protection by simultaneously supporting multiple civil traffic enforcement, traffic management and community safety applications from the same infrastructure.”
