Swarco Traffic appoints new UK MD

Swarco Traffic, the traffic technology specialist, has appointed John Pickworth, an experienced Chartered Engineer with proven Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) expertise, as its new Managing Director. Mr Pickworth, who has worked at a senior level in the industry for almost 20 years, joins the business from the engineering consultancy Pell Frischmann, where he was responsible […]

SWARCO Traffic launches new fund to support local businesses and charities

SWARCO Traffic has launched the SWARCO Traffic Ltd Business Fund, a new initiative created to support local businesses and charitable organisations experiencing financial hardship caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Following an application period, SWARCO has selected three organisations – Food for Thought Darlington, Toddington Childcare and Forest School and The Wild Hare Café – […]

SWARCO delivers fuel price VMS solution on M5

Bespoke motorway variable message signage has been installed to provide drivers with live fuel prices at Frankley Services on the M5 near Birmingham. Service station operator Moto wanted to trial a reduction in fuel prices “to deliver value to motorists during these difficult economic times”. It therefore needed a new signage solution to clearly display live […]

Podcast talks “immobility as a service”

The latest Inside Intertraffic podcast has been published focussing on parking, as three experts from SWARCO, White Willow Consulting and Etelätär Innovation explain different aspects around making the process of parking more efficient through connectivity, payment processing, equipment and an innovative new crowdsourcing solution. Leading Intelligent Transport Systems consultant Andy Graham from White Willow Consulting […]

SWARCO delivers new car park system for Warwick University

Parking technology provider SWARCO has installed a complete parking and traffic management solution at Warwick University to reduce congestion across the whole campus. The University’s upgraded its transport plans to cope with an expected 40 per cent rise in student numbers over the next ten years. It needed to fix traffic because drivers were struggling […]

SWARCO launches customisable traffic management platform

Traffic technology group SWARCO is offering local authorities a new flexible modular software platform to help traffic managers “improve mobility for citizens”. MyCity includes traditional traffic management functionality such as traffic signal monitoring and control, car park guidance and VMS management and journey time monitoring whilst enabling the plug-in of new features such as EV […]