Tennessee Department of Transportation Celebrates SmartWay Grand
Opening in Memphis
TransCore Provides Construction and Integration Services for SmartWay
Expansion
NEW YORK (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 17, 2008 --
With the press of a button, Tennessee Department of Transportation
Commissioner Gerald Nicely launched TDOT SmartWay, the Memphis area's
new intelligent transportation system. Controlled from a
state-of-the-art transportation management center (TMC), the new system
continually monitors 85 miles of interstate and is expected to make
highway travel in the region safer and more user-friendly. Anyone can
access the traffic camera images by visiting the TDOT
SmartWay website. In addition, Memphis television stations now also
have access to live feeds from the TDOT SmartWay cameras.
TransCore,
a leading supplier of ITS infrastructure, serves as the prime
contractor, providing comprehensive installation, integration, and
maintenance of 85 miles of ITS instrumentation, 65 miles of fiber optic
communication infrastructure, a wireless field communication network, a
long-haul licensed wireless communication link to the TDOT Regional
Headquarters, and video display and control equipment at the Memphis
Regional Traffic Management Center.
“The Memphis SmartWay expansion serves as a
model for using intelligent transportation systems technology to
increase a roadway’s capacity without
requiring additional lanes or conventional infrastructure,”
said John
Simler, president of TransCore’s Intelligent
Transportation Systems Group.
The new Memphis TDOT SmartWay system includes 115 traffic cameras,
42 dynamic message signs, more than 350 speed/congestion monitoring
stations to spot traffic flow interruptions, and a city-wide highway
advisory radio station broadcasting on AM 1660.
The system helps keep Memphis motorists informed about road conditions
by providing up-to-the-minute traffic information to help drivers avoid
problems on the road. The new system also helps TDOT officials monitor
traffic flow and respond quickly to problems on the roadway. TDOT
SmartWay has the potential to add 15 percent capacity to the interstate
system without widening the roadway. The total contract cost for
installation of the ITS components on the project is $32 million, orders
of magnitude less than the cost of building additional lanes.
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. In 2008, Engineering
News-Record (ENR) ranked TransCore No. 98 out of the Top 500
Design Firms. TransCore has more than 2,000 employees in 80
locations throughout the world.
TransCore operates as a unit of Roper
Industries (NYSE: ROP). 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
or www.roperind.com.
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