Yunex Traffic has launched Plus+ Advantage, a solution which it says allows complex signalised traffic intersection schemes to be delivered without the need for a separate temporary traffic management solution - reducing cost, carbon emissions, time and disruption to users, the firm insists.
Plus+ Advantage uses permanent signal equipment as temporary equipment during the scheme deployment phase, maintaining connectivity with UTC throughout a project.
The Plus+ controller is installed in its permanent location and temporary poles with the signal equipment are installed in temporary bases. As civil works are completed and new poles installed, the Plus+ signal equipment in the temporary locations can be transferred to the new permanent locations.
Less copper cabling is used, and the installation process is simplified - with no need for temporary traffic signals.
"The installation of a signalised traffic intersection requires civil engineering works, which in turn require lane closures and the installation of temporary signals," Yunex says.
"This adds cost and complexity to signal installations, extend project times and cause disruption to road users and pedestrians, with the resulting congestion impacting on air quality."
Wilke Reints, MD of Yunex Traffic in the UK, says Plus+ is now operating in projects across the UK.
"With low-level cycle heads also now in the Plus+ fold, as well as controllers with a smaller footprint, the system really is living up to its claim of revolutionising traffic signal control," Reints adds.
Plus+ Advantage uses a fully-compliant TR2500 traffic control system, Even in the construction stage, traffic signals can run under UTC / UTMC, SCOOT and MOVA control - with full integration of pedestrian and cycle movements.
