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Traffic guidance systems: the route to dynamic traffic management

Background
Infrastructure operation and management are two core tasks of government. The costs of carrying out these tasks must be socially justifiable. An integrated approach is increasingly being taken to infrastructural problems. Infrastructure capacity is increasingly assessed in terms of effectiveness and efficiency, with traffic flow management becoming the focus of infrastructure operation. The Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat, RWS) wishes to use the network as efficiently as possible with the help of dynamic traffic management. Traffic signalling, as a component of mobility-based intelligent networks, is an element of this concept. Customised information must result in more effective use of the road and rail transport infrastructure.

SGS INTRON
SGS INTRON played a role in the development of the first generation of traffic signalling devices for the Dutch motorways. Since the late 1980s, SGS INTRON has been involved in drafting the requirements and tests for traffic signalling devices. Since then SGS INTRON, as an independent research institute, has been involved in the development of more than 800 traffic signalling devices and in the testing of the mechanical and physical loads on these devices. The aspects tested included penetration by dust and water, stresses caused by vibration and wind, and resistance to temperature fluctuations, frost, salt and ultraviolet radiation. Both the initial type tests and the production checks were included in our total testing programme.

See the accompanying document for more information about our know-how, test facilities and references.

Your contact at SGS INTRON:
Wil Ubachs (tel.: +31(0)46-4204204)