The asset inventory information will be used to bring Hillingdon’s Exor computerised asset management system up to date. When the Borough’s new highways maintenance budget is confirmed and available, Yotta DCL will extract further inventory from the video survey to add additional detail to the network.

Yotta DCL’s video survey captures high-resolution street-level images of highways assets – for example, carriageways, footways, verges, cycle tracks, road signs, street name plates, bollards, road markings, verges, footway, lampposts, etc – using bespoke inventory capture vehicles. The vehicles are specially adapted vans equipped with high-grade inertia tracking and differential GPS software that can cover approximately 75km of road network per day. Yotta DCL can extract detailed inventory datasets from the images and supply them geo-referenced for loading into the customer’s software package or for using with its own Horizons Visualised Asset Management software.

Leamington Spa, 06 March 2012 – Yotta DCL has released a new version of its UKPMS (UK Pavement Management System) software. MARCHpms version 4.4 is part of the Yotta DCL Horizons “visualized asset management platform” and is used by highways departments to improve road network asset management. The officially compliant and health-checked software provides important new features, including network map editing improvements, HAMFIG (Highway Asset Management Financial Information Group) report updates and Performance Indicator report updates.

With MARCHpms, highways departments can process visual and machine survey data according to UKPMS rules. They can easily define a UKPMS network, compile an inventory of highway items and input condition surveys. The software’s automatic processing enables rating, treatment selection and prioritisation by condition, estimating and budgeting giving Local Authorities a clearer understanding of the condition of their road networks and aiding them with prioritizing their maintenance schemes.

“MARCHpms leads the market in performance for loading, processing and reporting pavement condition surveys. We are committed to the development and improvement of the UKPMS and we see it as a crucial part of the vision we have for the Horizons platform of highway asset management solutions,” said Nick Smee, Managing Director, Yotta DCL.

MARCHpms also features online help, password protection for managing access rights, a user-friendly rules and parameters interface and priority list reports. MARCHpms users include Southampton City Council, Norfolk County Council, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, West Sussex County Council, Hampshire County Council and Walsall Council.

Leamington Spa, 28 February 2012 – UK highway surveying company Yotta DCL has signed a four-year contract worth around £2.27 million with the Highways Agency. Over the life of the agreement, Yotta DCL will survey and monitor approximately 140,000km of individual lanes on motorways and other major roads across England.

As part of the agreement, Yotta DCL will perform a Traffic Speed Condition Survey (TRACS) to determine the condition of the road surface, assess the areas in particular need of repair and determine where immediate action needs to be taken.

During the bid process, Yotta DCL was awarded the highest score on the overall qualitative criteria used to select the successful bidder. Yotta DCL will use its new state-of-the-art Tempest highways data capture vehicles to carry out the survey and will also participate in the development of new algorithms to produce more accurate modeling of the road surface deterioration.

“This is a great start to 2012 for Yotta DCL and we are delighted to be awarded this significant contract with the Highways Agency. At the time of our preliminary results, we highlighted the potential for our new Tempest vans. That potential has today become clear and this contract win is testament to Yotta DCL’s technical superiority and progress,” said Nick Smee, Managing Director, Yotta DCL.

9 September 2011, Leamington Spa, UK: Yotta DCL, the UK’s leading highways surveying company, today announced it has signed a contract for 2011/2012 with Wakefield Council to carry out a video inventory survey of Wakefield’s A, B and C roads and a DVI survey. Yotta DCL has been providing inventory surveys to Wakefield since 2010 and is delighted to be strengthening this relationship.

The video survey will be carried out using one of Yotta DCL’s bespoke video capture vehicles which survey the roads at normal traffic speeds of up to 70mph and takes street level images. Video-based inventory surveys provide a number of benefits for Local Authorities including the fact they are fast, safe and cost effective and provide a visual record of the network. This allows Local Authorities to maximize the life of their assets, understand trends and better target their maintenance budget and schedule.

Yotta DCL has been conducting Visual Inspections for Local Authorities for over 15 years and operates a fleet of survey vehicles. Condition data is collected using our UKMPS accredited software and all our surveyors are UKPMS accredited. CVI surveys are a cost-effective tool for Local Authorities to highlight areas of the network that need further investigation and to carry out carriageway valuation in asset management on Unclassified roads.

Nick Smee, Managing Director at Yotta DCL said: “Yotta DCL currently holds the contract for Wigan’s CVI surveys so we are pleased that our existing customers keep coming back to us year after year and we are delighted that Wigan has extended the contract this year to include SCRIM surveys.”

15 August 2011, Leamington Spa, UK: Yotta DCL, one of the UK’s leading highways surveying company, today announced it has signed a contract for 2011/2012 with Consulting and Business Services Group, Mouchel, who are acting on behalf of Shropshire Council to carry out a CVI survey of over 500kms of Shropshire’s U roads.

Managing Director, Nick Smee, commented: “Yotta DCL have been providing visual surveys to Local Authorities for over 15 years. CVI surveys represent an easy way to collect condition data across large distances of road in a cost effective and timely manner and our experienced team of CVI surveyors are all accredited under the UKPMS scheme.”