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Cambridge County Council have secured a RouteMapper survey.

The purpose of the video survey is to create an asset inventory of the road side infrastructure throughout the county. Initially the project was only to cover the A and B road network, however, it has now been expanded to cover the C road network throughout the county as well.

In total the coverage of the survey is 1290km.

The RouteMapper Desktop browser will be used to digitise the inventory for all the roads. The database has been configured exactly to match the inventory schema devised by Cambridge County Council.

The project started in November 2011.

RouteMapper and our parent company IBI Group will be exhibiting at the Road Expo 2011 conference in Edinburgh, 7th – 8th November.

Scotland’s largest roads, traffic management and construction exhibition… 

Road Expo Scotland is the ultimate destination north of the border for road and construction professionals looking to source the latest products and services and understand the implications of legislative changes. Whether you are a manufacturer, supplier, contractor or client this is the perfect place to do business face to face.

Come and see us on stand F9.

In November 2011 Transport Scotland will award two 4th Generation (4G) Term Contracts. Under the conditions of the contracts, Transport Scotland is committed to providing the Operating Companies with an inventory of Trunk Road infrastructure items.

To ensure that the current inventory is comprehensive, accurate and up-to date, Transport Scotland are undertaking a review and/or update of the road inventory currently held.

IBI Group has been commissioned to carry out a comprehensive review and potential update of the asset inventory held within the SERIS RMMS module in 3 stages.

The stages are to include:

• Video survey of entire Transport Scotland Trunk Road Network in both directions including Exit/Entry slip roads, Roundabouts and Ox Bow lay-bys.
• Gap analysis and detailed report on the accuracy and completeness of the asset inventory based on a 5% random sample of current datasets
• Update of Inventory held with SERIS

The total length of the survey is 6,205 Lane Km.

RouteMapper have been successful in securing a project for South Gloucestershire Council to provide a spatial video survey for a number of routes on their network.

The network length to survey is 440 lane km consisting of both single lane one/two carriageway and dual carriageway sections.
The aim of the survey is to provide South Gloucestershire Council with a clear, unequivocal visual record of the current state of the roads within their network. An inventory of signs, safety fences, kerbs, etc, along with their respective condition is to be carried out as part of the contract.

This new commission builds upon our previous work in the South West of England, notably Gloucestershire and North Somerset.

The survey is expected to be completed in spring 2011.

On 29th September 2010, RouteMapper exhibited our Digital video with positioning data at the UK Road Strategy Conference which was held at the QEII Conference Centre.

The conference was a huge success. We were able to talk with many of the delegates, some of whom we have previously worked with, but also we were able to discuss potential opportunities with interested people, many from areas outside the

usual Asset Management channels.

The overall feeling of the day was that although spending cuts are inevitable, it is imperative that the road networks are maintained correctly and that both government and suppliers have to be a great deal smarter when providing services/products.

As you can see from the photographs, the stand was very busy!

On Tuesday 13th July 2010, we will be exhibiting at  Development In Pavement Assesment conference organised by Fugro Aperio. 

The conference will be held at Austin Court in Birmingham.

We will be displaying our RouteMapper Video Surveying System. This is a crucial system for ensuring that our existing road networks are efficiently managed. By using Spatially Encoded Video Systems, we can ensure that operating costs are reduced whilst improving the safety of your staff.

Come and see us at stand 5!

We hope to see you there.

IBI Group in collaboration with Atkins succeeds in securing another local authority project.

North Somerset County Council has commissioned a RouteMapper video survey of their entire road network including all A, B, C and Un-Classified Roads. In total 1,225km of road network will be surveyed, a high proportion of which are contained within busy urban environments.

Urban networks provide unique challenges in terms of traffic and maintaining accurate positioning due to inadequate GPS. However, the RouteMapper team has extensive experience in these environments, utilising high end inertial navigation systems, ensuring the highest quality imagery and positioning is retained.

The aim of the commission is to provide North Somerset County Council with an accurate and efficient method of populating the Council’s Pavement Management System (PMS), Pitney Bowes Confirm™, with a maintainable inventory of highway related assets obtained from the video.

In Partnership with Atkins Asset Management Team North Yorkshire County Council has commissioned IBI Group to carry out a RouteMapper video survey of their road network including all A, B, C and Unclassified roads.

In total 8,400km of road network will be surveyed. To our knowledge tthis is the largest video survey commission that has ever been undertaken in the UK!

Such a large survey, gives rise to many unique challenges for the team in terms of network complexity and management of data, which we are tackling with the professionalism and dedication our clients have come to expect from us.

The aim of the commission is to populate the Council’s Pavement Management System (PMS) Symology’s INSIGHT™ with a maintainable inventory of highway related assets obtained from the video. Thus enabling the Council’s Transport Asset Management Plan (TAMP) objectives to be achieved in the area of asset valuation.

Atkins forethought in utilising the RouteMapper system video in conjunction our RouteMapper Version 4.0 desktop software will enable them too efficiently and effectively digitise the required highway assets within record time!

Not withstanding the inventory, North Yorkshire County Council’s further use of the network video provides a clear, unequivocal visual record of the network enabling many other maintenance related activities to be performed over the coming years.

RouteMapper are to exhibit at Highway Maintenance 2010 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. The conference and exhibition will take place on Tuesday 22nd June 2010.

We will be displaying our RouteMapper Video Surveying System. This is a crucial system for ensuring that our existing road networks are efficiently managed. By using Spatially Encoded Video Systems, we can ensure that operating costs are reduced whilst improving the safety of your staff.

Come and see us at stand 25 to get more information on our services.

Once again, RouteMapper are to exhibit at HSC10, Our Changing World. It will take place on 12th and 13th May 2010 at Cardiff International Arena.

We will be displaying our RouteMapper Video Surveying System. This is a crucial system for ensuring that our existing road networks are efficiently managed. By using Spatially Encoded Video Systems, we can ensure that operating costs are reduced whilst improving the safety of your staff.

Come and see us at stand 14 to get more information on our services.

We hope to see you there.