Flintshire opts for data collection from Yotta DCL

05 February 2008, 12:58pm

Oxford, UK - Yotta DCL's cutting edge automatic inventory surveying service has proven successful for Flintshire County Council's highways department. A trail of Yotta DCL's intelligent highway data collection service on 100km of Flintshire's B-class roads has resulted in the Council issuing a further order for surveying the remainder of the entire 1200km network. This will give Flintshire County Council an accurate comprehensive inventory map of its assets, which will assist it with developing and deploying its Highway Asset Management Programme.

“We identified gaps in our inventory and needed to fill these before we could progress to the next stage of improving the efficiency of our network management. We were made aware of Yotta DCL's innovative approach and took up several references from other authorities that proved highly satisfactory. The price for the digital survey was also attractive, being more cost-effective to alternative services. We agreed to a 100km trial on our B roads so that we could ascertain how easily the data output from Yotta DCL's Nano software would integrate with our Mayrise highways system,” says Mark Middleton, Network Asset Manager, Flintshire County Council.

“With Mayrise, each road is given an unique street reference number that we needed to link to inventory captured by Yotta DCL. We are very pleased to say that Yotta DCL was able to do this and hence we will now survey the rest of the network. This will give us a complete view of 5 types of inventory for all A, B, C and unclassified roads: regulatory, advisory and mandatory traffic signs; gulleys and road name plates,” continues Mark Middleton.

Yotta DCL uses a specially designed and developed vehicle equipped with six high definition cameras that provide a full street-level view of the highway. The cameras take an image every 2 metres as the vehicle drives along, with the precise position of each image calculated by combining GPS, Inertial and Optical tracking systems with advanced algorithms. These images are processed by Yotta DCL's proprietary software which analyses them pixel-by-pixel to give a highly accurate position and detailed information of each inventory item seen by the cameras on the journey.

Mark Middleton and his team are confident that they will get the results they are looking for from the extended survey and have already entered a bid for funding to capture additional assets from the original inventory capture photography.

In the photo: From left to right Mark Middleton, Network Asset Manager; David Collyer, Chief Highways & Transport Engineer (Works); and Gareth Williams, Executive Member for Environment & Regeneration and Deputy Leader of Flintshire County Council.

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