What did we do
Commencing in 2016, our Technology team collaborated with other experts from the Department for Transport, Transport for London, Highways England, Kent County Council, and their European counterparts.
The scheme deployed and evaluated new ITS and C-ITS technologies on the A2/M2 corridor from central London through to Dover. The systems interoperate with partner projects in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Our team was responsible for orchestrating the initial phase of the project and along with the Department for Transport, oversighting its progress and planning its evaluation, providing technical expertise across project management, technical support and project evaluation disciplines.
This work extends to liaising with, and working with peer road authorities in France, Belgium and the Netherlands where similar schemes are being deployed and Interoperability between the UK and European systems is being tested.
Solution
In its first phase, new C-ITS services in Road Works Warning, Probe Vehicle Data, In-Vehicle Signing and Green Light Optimised Speed Advisory were deployed and tested for their technical proficiency and impact.
This new set of communication standards and technologies enables seamless and borderless I2V, V2I and V2V communication, approved by ETSI, providing the foundations connected transport, across Europe and potentially the world.
The initial focus of this wider project has been to allow communications between vehicles and the roadside, using:
Communication channels were tested individually and in combination for technical competence in delivering real-time safety notifications directly into vehicles. This determined how a combined G5 and 4G (5G) communications service might offer the best overall solution in the near future.
Our pivotal role in this breakthrough project is set to define the future of connected transport.
The pilot results have been used to inform future business cases for wider investment in autonomous and connected vehicle technologies by highway authorities and operators.
Across the UK, our clients rely on us every day to de-risk, simplify, and un-complicate things. How? With the right team and the right solution – on time, and on budget.
Working with public and private sector organisations, we provide specialist project and cost management, engineering and design, health and safety, and environmental solutions. We do things differently, specialising in infrastructure – the physical networks which keep the country moving, as well as the social infrastructure which creates communities people want to be a part of – and in building solutions, from architectural innovation to sustainable and technologically advanced design and delivery.
Across the UK, our clients rely on us every day to de-risk, simplify, and un-complicate things. How? With the right team and the right solution – on time, and on budget.
Working with public and private sector organisations, we provide specialist project and cost management, engineering and design, health and safety, and environmental solutions. We do things differently, specialising in infrastructure – the physical networks which keep the country moving, as well as the social infrastructure which creates communities people want to be a part of – and in building solutions, from architectural innovation to sustainable and technologically advanced design and delivery.
