Moving forward with Motus Traffic

Date: 29/3/2011

TRL announce tie up with Motus Traffic for MOVA 7 integration.

TRL has recently shipped MOVA 7 to the signal companies, who are now busy integrating MOVA into their controllers and product portfolio for onwards shipment to their customers late summer. With over 300 junctions going live with MOVA every year and close to 4000 junctions now under MOVA control, TRL has decided that now is the time for an additional route to market.

As a result, Motus Traffic will now develop MOVA units to be supplied with the MOTUS TM150 Traffic Signal Controllers, which have recently been granted approval by the Secretary of State as being TR2500 compliant, and as a standalone unit to be integrated on existing sites with third party manufacturers' traffic signal controllers.

Motus will join the MOVA Development Group which consists of the signal companies, Siemens, Peek and Telent. The Development Group works with TRL to ensure that their needs are taken into consideration when developing future Kernels.

Gavin Jackman, Head of Software at TRL, said: "In discussions with Motus Traffic we realised that they were passionate about MOVA and wanted to work with us to drive further innovation in the product to their customers. We did not hesitate and are now pleased to announce this distribution agreement."

Jim Booth, Managing Director of Motus Traffic, said: "Integration of MOVA is our next step in our expansion strategy and demonstrates our commitment to serve our customers at the highest level."

You can visit TRL on stand C30 or Motus Traffic on stand J42 at Traffex, NEC, to find out more.

Notes for Editors

About TRL

TRL is an internationally recognised centre of excellence, recognised world-wide for over 75 years for evidential research and consultancy covering transport issues. Based in Crowthorne, Berkshire, TRL's expertise encompasses network performance, intelligent transport systems and technologies, traffic management, including the monitoring of congestion, traffic data analysis and forecasting, safety technology, public transport systems and sustainable mobility.

TRL Software provides a comprehensive range of software products and services, offering the full spectrum of off-the-shelf junction design software and micro-simulation linking tools, to bespoke software design.

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About Motus Traffic Ltd

Motus Traffic Limited was formed in early 2007 from the two traffic equipment and installation companies of Techmiracle Limited and USCO Traffic Limited. Both of these founding companies had been traffic equipment and installation providers in the traffic control industry for over ten years.

During the past four years Motus Traffic has developed and grown within the traffic signals manufacture, supply, installation and maintenance market and are now the company of choice for traffic signal maintenance by three local authorities and one Management Agent Contractor (MAC) for the Highways Agency. Motus Traffic was recently selected by Community Lighting Partnership (CLP) as the traffic signal maintenance contractor on the Blackpool Private finance initiative (PFI) contract for street lighting and traffic signals, which was the first such contract in the UK to include traffic signals. This contract, which commenced January 2010 and runs for 25 years, requires the contractor to replace all traffic signal sites, as well as the current urban Traffic Control System (UTC) with a new Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) compliant system, operating with a full wireless mesh communications system, together with the Motus Remote Monitoring System (RMS).

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