LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SWITCHES TO VIDEALERT’S HOSTED PLATFORM TO ENFORCE BUS LANES

April 07, 2020

 

 

 

LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SWITCHES TO VIDEALERT’S HOSTED PLATFORM TO ENFORCE BUS LANES

 

 

 

PINNER, MIDDLESEX, 7 APRIL 2020 – Lancashire County Council has switched to Videalert systems for the enforcement of bus lanes throughout the county.  The decision to standardise on Videalert’s hosted CCTV enforcement platform was taken to provide the council with the ability to manage multiple contravention types using a single platform.  Marston Holdings group companies Videalert and NSL were selected to deliver a new enforcement solution that offers 99% uptime with increased productivity.

 

Peter Bell, parking and regulation manager at Lancashire County Council, said: “The singleplatform approach coupled with significant uptime demands meant our old cameras wereseriously impacting on the effectiveness of our bus lane and ongoing parking enforcement strategy.  Bus lanes improve travel times for people using public transport, and the Videalert system enables us to meet our compliance objectives by delivering a consistently higher level of performance, as well as providing the highest availability.  The platform also delivers better value as future-proofing is built-in and additional camera assets and enforcement applications can be cost effectively added as required.”

 

The council has initially installed Videalert bus lane cameras in 15 locations in Preston, Burnleyand Lancaster.  The ONVIF-compliant, digital HD cameras went ‘live’ before the end of December 2019 and capture high quality images to minimise discard-rates, increase productivity and help reduce the number of appeals.

 

County Councillor Keith Iddon, cabinet member for highways and transport, commented: “The bus lanes are there to give priority for buses, and enforcing them helps to ensure that everyone follows the rules, and the system works as it should.  I hope that we don’t make a penny from penalty notices once the cameras are working, as it will mean that people aren’t abusing the bus lanes.”

The council already has a strategy to roll out the new system to the other locations.  It is also considering other applications, including red routes and Mobile Enforcement Vehicles, to add to Videalert’s digital video platform, which can simultaneously support multiple traffic management and enforcement applications, such as clean air and low emission zones using the same infrastructure.

 

According to Mark Hoskin, Business Development Director at Marston Holdings Ltd: “The award of this contract demonstrates how Videalert and NSL can jointly deliver complete solutions that streamline every aspect of the traffic and parking management process from enforcement and PCN processing through to collections.  This unique, integrated approach helps increase efficiency and maximise compliance in short timeframes.”

 

Captured evidence packs are stored on Videalert’s hosted digital video platform where they can be accessed and reviewed securely over the internet.  Validated evidence packs are sent to the council’s back office system to issue penalty charge notices (PCN).  Videalert’s flexible hosted platform makes it a quick and cost effective process to deploy enforcement as it does not require the installation of any IT at the council’s offices.

 

Tim Daniels, Sales and Marketing Director at Videalert, added:  “This is a continuation of a general trend whereby Videalert’s enhanced performance and functionality is causing local authorities to re-evaluate what represents best value.  As a result, we are currently replacing an increasing number of legacy systems and enabling enforcement to be extended to further improve compliance without incurring major additional capital expenditure.”

 

About Videalert

Videalert is part of Marston Holdings, the UK’s largest transportation and enforcement services group.  It is also one of the UK’s leading suppliers of intelligent traffic management and enforcement solutions.  Videalert is the only company able to provide its own suite of attended, unattended, and Mobile Vehicle CCTV enforcement solutions using the same intelligent digital video software platform.  The platform supports the widest range of traffic management andenforcement applications as well as clean air and low emission zones using the same infrastructure.  This unique, future-proofed solution combines sophisticated video analytics with ANPR and offers a full range of deployment options including wired LAN, Wi-Fi LAN and 4G WAN as well as supporting all analogue and ONVIF compliant digital megapixel cameras.   For further information, please visit www.videalert.com