AppyWay, the kerbside and traffic management technology company, has been awarded a contract with North Yorkshire Council to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end Digital Traffic Regulation Order (D-TRO) system.
The scale of the undertaking is striking: AppyWay will survey and map 5,000km of roads and kerbside across the region, a distance roughly equivalent to travelling from Scarborough to New York. The project will see the council’s existing traffic orders fully surveyed, captured and digitised, bringing North Yorkshire into compliance with the Department for Transport’s (DfT) upcoming D-TRO standards.
North Yorkshire is taking a holistic approach to its asset management, with AppyWay digitising the full spectrum of traffic orders across the region, including:
- Static restrictions: parking spaces, loading bays and yellow lines;
- Moving restrictions: speed limits, one-way systems and weight limits;
- Off-street management: car parks and estate management, brought into the same unified platform as on-street assets.
“This is a genuinely exciting project for us, the largest of its kind ever in the UK and possibly beyond,” said Mike Potter, Head of Commercial at AppyWay.
“Pairing our Traffic Suite with Cyclomedia’s survey capability gives North Yorkshire a level of insight into their kerb and road rules in a way that hasn’t been possible before. Traffic Suite will transform the largely paper-based Traffic Order process into a truly digitised process that delivers D-TRO compliance as standard. We’re grateful to the council for the confidence they’ve placed in us, and the whole team is looking forward to getting started.”
Central to the project is KurBi, AppyWay’s business intelligence module, which the council will use to visualise, analyse and report on its traffic order data. AppyWay describes KurBi as a “smartwatch tracker for the streets,” designed to simplify everyday processes such as Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, while giving officers a clearer picture of how the road network is structured and managed.
AppyWay’s open API integrations mean the newly digitised data will also sync directly with North Yorkshire’s existing software systems, including enforcement and GIS tools, so that all departments work from a single, accurate source of truth.
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