Kapsch TrafficCom has received a contract to install a new high-tech intelligent transport system on the UK’s motorways and major A roads to help modernise and consolidate traffic management.

Awarded by Highways England, the £30m contract requires the Austria-based firm to install the system at its regional control centre in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, which will then be rolled out to the rest of the country.

Highways England services procurement team leader Neil Widdop said: "The new system will allow us to improve our operational efficiencies through the use of a modern, national, integrated system.

"As we improve our operational efficiency, we can expect road users to benefit from quicker responses to incidents leading to improved safety and greater convenience for drivers."

"The new system will allow us to improve our operational efficiencies through the use of a modern, national, integrated system."

Expected to integrate a wide range of functions, the system will manage the existing large quantity of different roadside devices, and is also designed to be future proof by being able to incorporate new technologies.

Kapsch will deliver and install its Dynac advanced traffic management system as part of the collaborative programme CHARM, between Highways England and the Dutch national roads authority, Rijkswaterstaat.

Apart from the UK, one system will also be deployed at a traffic management centre in the Netherlands within 26 months.

Dynac helps improve safety of road users and facilitates quicker response to real-time events, helping operators work more efficiently, and is able to function at lower maintenance costs.

Following implementation in the first traffic management centres, the system will be deployed at seven regional and one national centre of Highways England, and five regional and one national centre of Rijkswaterstaat.

The total contract value for Dynac installation in the two countries totals €60m, including the provision of product-level support services for a period of up to 13 years post-installation.