East Sussex County Council benefits from the Rennicks Virtual Journey Time System during planned works on the A22 London Road – a very busy strategic route which sees an estimated 20,000 vehicle movements per day.
In 2016, Jacobs formed a Joint Venture with Costain to deliver an end to end Highways Service for East Sussex County Council. This 7-year project includes maintenance of all aspects of the Highway. One of their most recent projects was remedial works on the A22 and Rennicks UK provided their Virtual Journey Time technology to assist motorists during this time.
The pavement structure on the A22 London Road, a strategic route running through East Sussex, showed signs of an underlying problem within the subbase layer / subgrade. As a result, the decision was made to reconstruct the pavement using the insitu-recycling process, which required a night road closure for the works to be completed, with a diversion of approximately 20 miles. With the reconstruction works taking place on a road which sees an estimated 20,000 vehicle movements per day, it was important to communicate effectively with road users so they were aware of the impact the diversions would have on their journey. This is where traffic technology company Rennicks UK came in, with their innovative journey time technology.
The Rennicks Virtual Journey Time System (RVJTS) makes use of crowd sourced journey time data to provide live, accurate information to road users to help improve the experience for motorists and to minimise disruption. Two months prior to the start of the works, the East Sussex Highways Joint Venture used the Rennicks Virtual Journey Time System to monitor the traffic flows before the works started. This provided a clearer understanding of the route and the impact the diversions would have on journey time for the motorists.
Using an Advantage 4280 mobile VMS, East Sussex Highways were able to display live journey time messages on the road network, easily read from a distance by oncoming traffic. The ability to programme the VMS remotely provided them with up-to-date, accurate journey times, and the position of the VMS units allowed drivers to use this information and seek alternative routes should they wish.
By collaborating with their chosen Traffic Management company, Rennicks also helped East Sussex County Council to identify significant savings on the traffic management of this project and reduce the amount of complaints received from the general public, who had been informed of the delays and road closures throughout the period of this scheme.
A very successful Traffic Management effort managed and supported throughout by all involved, utilising the Rennicks Virtual Journey Time System.
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The Rennicks Virtual Journey Time System (RVJTS) is a first of its kind solution to the issue of journey time. RVJTS is live, flexible and reactive and perfect for incident management, events and large infrastructure schemes.