TransCore and Sensys Networks Announce Alliance to
Integrate Arterial Travel Time System into TransSuite
TransCore continues to adopt latest emerging detection
technology
WASHINGTON D.C., June 1, 2009, Intelligent
Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting -- TransCore, which has provided intelligent
transportation system (ITS) products and services to 50 state departments of
transportation, and Berkeley, Calif.-based Sensys Networks announced they will
integrate the Sensys Arterial Travel Time System into TransCore’s TransSuite
advanced traffic management system, used by more than 40 state and local
governments.
Arterial
traffic accounts for more than half of all traffic today, offering a tremendous
opportunity for congestion reduction through the expansion of ITS systems. Yet,
compared to freeways or urban areas with prominent RFID tag populations
associated with electronic toll collection, there is limited data sources to
measure arterial travel times. Measuring arterial travel time is further
complicated due to traffic signal delays, cars switching lanes, and generally
much shorter and more diverse travel patterns.
The Sensys Networks Arterial
Travel Time System employs breakthrough technology called signature
re-identification to measure and report real-time travel data along a city
corridor. This is the first commercially available, infrastructure- based
system that provides real-time travel times. TransSuite can now deliver the
entire distribution of travel times along with a whole host of other real-time
performance parameters for urban arteries.
David Sparks, executive vice
president for TransCore’s ITS Group, explained, “By incorporating these key
performance parameters for arterial roadways, particularly in real-time,
traffic engineers can add a level of sophistication and responsiveness to
dynamic traffic conditions as they happen.”
This
alliance marks the first time an advanced traffic management system can provide
real-time arterial travel times, beyond the use of RFID. City transportation
engineers can utilize arterial travel time, along with speed, occupancy, and
volume measures to further manage and alleviate traffic congestion.
Amine Haoui, CEO of Sensys
Networks, continued, “We believe the integration of the Sensys Networks
Arterial Travel Time Systems into the TransSuite family of ITS products will
provide customers with key arterial performance parameters that have
never been available until now. We are very pleased to be working with
TransCore to bring this new capability to the market.”
By
collaborating together the two companies will reduce long development and
integration cycles and provide an off-the-shelf product that provides real
time, arterial travel times along corridors. TransSuite currently provides
users with software modules for ITS devices including traffic signal
controllers, freeway management data collection, ramp metering, dynamic message
signs, CCTV controls and display management, incident management and response,
and center-to-center interfaces.
About Sensys
Networks
Sensys Networks is the world’s leading
provider of wireless traffic detection and integrated traffic data systems. We
provide a universal platform that delivers the most dependable, flexible and
cost-effective solutions on the market today. Our patented, wireless magnetic
sensors install in a fraction of the time with far less disruption to highways
and intersections than traditional detection technologies. The Sensys Wireless
Vehicle Detection System is deployed in more than 30
For more information, visit www.sensysnetworks.com.
About
TransCore
TransCore’s 70-year heritage supporting the
transportation industry spans a range of offerings for the toll, traffic
management, airport, parking, access control, rail, intermodal, trucking, and
homeland security markets. With products
and installations in 46 countries, more than 100 patents worldwide, and
pioneering applications of RFID and satellite communications technologies,
TransCore's expertise is unparalleled in the markets it serves. TransCore has
more than 2,000 employees in 80 locations throughout the world.
TransCore operates as a unit
of Roper Industries. Roper Industries is
a market-driven, diversified growth company with trailing twelve month revenues
of $2.3 billion, and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s S&P
Mid-Cap 400, Fortune 1000, and Russell 1000 Indexes. Roper provides engineered
products and solutions for global niche markets, including water, energy, radio
frequency, and research/medical applications.
For more information, visit www.transcore.com.