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Key facts
- Buyer
- National Highways · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Ove Arup & Partners Ltd - SPaTS
- Value
- £100,000
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Research & development · Development consultancy services (CPV 73220000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Jan 2025
- Published5 Feb 2025Published 6 days after the contract date
Description
National Highways is committed to reducing injuries resulting from Road Traffic Collisions (RTC). Early in 2015 Task 352 facilitated initial trials at an off-road facility to identify whether sensor technology could be developed to measure the frequency of - and enforce - close following offences. At the time, four of the six systems showed potential. Subsequently Task 520 subjected the promising prototype systems to further, and more complex, off-road trials. These additional trials provided the system suppliers with important testing and development time at an off-road facility. Trials were conducted using a greater number of vehicles, various vehicle types (including motorbikes) and more scenarios. All four prototype systems involved in Task 520 were believed to be capable of supporting the on-road trials to gather data to understand the extent of the close following problem on the network. SPATS Task 1-022 took the first equipment to a live roadside site and analysed the performan…
About the supplier
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