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25/08/2020
Amey Receives Additional Funding To Design Improvised Protection Vehicle
Highways England has awarded Amey £759,000 in additional funding to design an Impact Protection Vehicle (IPV).
The vehicle will protect roadworkers from harm when putting out traffic management on live carriageways.
Amey has been working with Highways England and suppliers such as HW Martin, King Highway Products, Rennicks UK, HIAB and HORIBA MIRA as well as Coventry University and the Manufacturing and Technology Centre, and other industry bodies through the Safety Supply Chain Leadership Group, to combine their expertise to develop the IPV.
The deployment of traffic management is currently a manual operation, requiring both operatives on the ground and manned Traffic Management IPVs. Since Amey received funding for phase one of this project back in November 2018, a number of iterations and concepts have been tested. Risk assessments have been completed and elements such as development of the electronic messaging signs, lifting technology and the use of virtual reality for the deployment of the electronic messaging signs have been approved.
Highways England Regional Director Catherine Brookes said: "Our ultimate aim at Highways England is to ensure nobody working or travelling on our network is harmed. Investing in innovations such as the new Impact Protection Vehicle is one of the paths we are taking to help meet this goal.
"While we are doing all we can to change driver behaviour and prevent traffic management incursions, we cannot eliminate all risk. But measures such as this new type of IPV could protect the lives of our workers and road users and we look forward to seeing its further development."
James Haluch, Managing Director for Highways and Waste Collections at Amey, said: "Since the end of 2018, our teams have been researching, trialling the latest technology and working in collaboration with suppliers, to create an impact protection vehicle that will protect our workforce whilst working on a live network.
"This latest round of funding will enable the team to progress to phase two of the project to complete the detailed design of a prototype. We have made great strides in the project to date, completing collision simulation modelling, exploring the use of virtual reality technology to operate the crane and sign deployment as well as reviewing and modifying the deployment mechanisms of the crash cushions."
The vehicle will protect roadworkers from harm when putting out traffic management on live carriageways.
Amey has been working with Highways England and suppliers such as HW Martin, King Highway Products, Rennicks UK, HIAB and HORIBA MIRA as well as Coventry University and the Manufacturing and Technology Centre, and other industry bodies through the Safety Supply Chain Leadership Group, to combine their expertise to develop the IPV.
The deployment of traffic management is currently a manual operation, requiring both operatives on the ground and manned Traffic Management IPVs. Since Amey received funding for phase one of this project back in November 2018, a number of iterations and concepts have been tested. Risk assessments have been completed and elements such as development of the electronic messaging signs, lifting technology and the use of virtual reality for the deployment of the electronic messaging signs have been approved.
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Highways England Regional Director Catherine Brookes said: "Our ultimate aim at Highways England is to ensure nobody working or travelling on our network is harmed. Investing in innovations such as the new Impact Protection Vehicle is one of the paths we are taking to help meet this goal.
"While we are doing all we can to change driver behaviour and prevent traffic management incursions, we cannot eliminate all risk. But measures such as this new type of IPV could protect the lives of our workers and road users and we look forward to seeing its further development."
James Haluch, Managing Director for Highways and Waste Collections at Amey, said: "Since the end of 2018, our teams have been researching, trialling the latest technology and working in collaboration with suppliers, to create an impact protection vehicle that will protect our workforce whilst working on a live network.
"This latest round of funding will enable the team to progress to phase two of the project to complete the detailed design of a prototype. We have made great strides in the project to date, completing collision simulation modelling, exploring the use of virtual reality technology to operate the crane and sign deployment as well as reviewing and modifying the deployment mechanisms of the crash cushions."
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