Navtech Radar, the British manufacturer of radar-based Automatic Incident Detection (AID) solutions for traffic management applications, has announced that it has expanded sales into North America, South America, Korea and China.
As traffic volumes continue to increase, the traditional option has been to build new roads or extra lanes. Cost or planning restrictions may make this approach unfeasible. Operators want to reduce running costs while maximising capacity. An increasingly favoured option is to optimise the use of existing roads by making them “smarter”.
Smarter roads require a real-time understanding of what is happening, which necessitates the use of sensors. Navtech Radar says that it has been developing sensors and analytics for optimising the throughput on our surface roads, tunnels and bridges. The software allows for individual rule setting and the ClearWay product, pictured, has the lowest false alarm rate in comparison to any other technology in the market, the firm claims.
Ryan Hood, Sales & Marketing Director of Navtech Radar, says: “Our radar-based AID solution has now been adopted as a de facto standard in many countries. Several of the AID projects on which our technology is implemented include all-lane running schemes on strategic roads with no hard shoulder, so fast, reliable and accurate detection is a must. Increasingly, we also see more and more requests to use the radar data for secondary benefits, such as traffic data and driver behaviour monitoring. For AID, ClearWay gives very low numbers of false alarms – typically one per 1 km per 24 hours – and is widely used in geographical regions where inclement weather, such as rain, fog, snow, sand and dust, is common. There simply is no other technology that would be effective for this kind of application.”
Some of the most recent projects completed using Navtech’s ClearWay AID includes several stretches on roads in the UK and Sweden, Mastrafjord and Byfjord subsea tunnels in Norway, and Bolte Bridge in Melbourne, Australia.
Meanwhile Navtech are attending the Intertraffic exhibition in Istanbul, from May 27 to 29, 2015. Visit: www.navtechradar.com.
