On this week’s Highways Voices, Paul Campion of TRL discusses the best way to manage traffic in towns and cities using a refresh of what we’ve always known as SCOOT and MOVA traffic management in what is now called Unified Traffic Control.
“It’s incredibly important for the cities to have the confidence that their massive installed base of equipment can continue to be used,” he explains. “No one wants to dig up the roads in order to put in some new software. So we have to respect that legacy, respect the fact that all these cities, and their citizens depend on this software and have been doing for many years, but take it forward in quite a different and we think, very valuable way.”
The conversation also talks about how funding such upgrades could be justified if both the environmental and road safety aspects were considered holistically. “That’s quite difficult to do in governmental budgeting, but you know what the challenges like decarbonisation challenges like levelling up, I think are going to require us to do some of these things, which is simultaneously creative, innovative, look like they’re really difficult and the same time common bloomin’ sense,” he adds.
In the podcast you will also hear news from podcasts partners LCRIG, ADEPT, ITS (UK) and the Transport Technology Forum.
You can listen to the podcast on the Highways News website here.