P. Ducker Systems Ltd have a wealth of expertise in the implementation of Transportation Infrastructure Projects including road and rail tunnel control systems, lighting, ventilation and traffic monitoring system spanning the last 18 years - providing turnkey Control, Monitoring and System Integration Solutions. This has been achieved by adopting a professional, engineering lead approach and building close and responsive client relationships to identify the most appropriate solutions within strict programme and cost constraints.
Our primary expertise is in the implementation of Transportation Infrastructure projects for Tunnels and Road networks and Metro, Rail and Airport operators. These range from stand alone Control Systems to fully Integrated Solutions covering lighting, ventilation, traffic control and monitoring and including CCTV, PA, telephones, radio, fire and security sub-systems.We thrive on technical challenge and complex system architecture and where intuitive user interfaces and unified data handling are critical to ensuring safe and effective infrastructure operation and maintenance.
PDS is a privately owned and highly motivated company employing dedicated and enthusiastic professionals.
PDS have extensive expertise in the implementation of tunnel control and system integration projects, with a world-wide reputation for providing highly integrated solutions, combining and managing the interfaces from many sub-systems.
Tunnel Control Systems from PDS can be provided with architectures to meet the project needs for both new installations and upgrades or refurbishments. Using highly secure and reliable systems, and supported by our extensive project experience, we can bring an in-depth understanding of system requirements, providing solutions to retrieve and manage data for the unified display and control of the road tunnel environment, traffic and plant.
We have successfully implemented control and monitoring projects and fully integrated Plant, Environmental and Traffic Control & Monitoring Systems for tunnels throughout the UK, Ireland and the USA
In support of our mission critical tunnel and infrastructure control systems, we also provide 24-hr call-out support and maintenance services to most of our major clients, including 20 road and infrastructure tunnels in the UK and Ireland.
PDS experience and proven capability in providing integrated infrastructure projects enables us to offer overall project solutions combining the separate PMS, ITS, communication and radio systems elements into a fully integrated system, thus realising specific and unique project benefits.
Overall system integration enables the efficient generation of dynamic Active Traffic Management, and effective presentation of Dynamic Driver Information such as “Road Condition” and “Time in Transit”.
The majority of our project solutions generally require at least one and often many special interfaces, using a range of data protocols and formats. PDS has a software engineering team to provide this capability together with the ability to provide specialist software and product development (e.g. SCANLIGHT and the Tyne Toll PERMIT system).We believe that this integration capability sets PDS apart from many system suppliers.
Solutions are available to interface with MIDAS, COBS, UTMS (Urban Traffic Management Systems) via such as NMCSII and IP Ethernet technology.
PDS are active in the area of automatic road toll systems, having developed from scratch the PERMIT automatic tolls and cash management system for Tyne Tunnel, a solution based on automatic tag based vehicle identification facilities.
PDS capability to interface and coordinate the specialist sub systems means that such as Automatic Vehicle Classification, CCTV/Queue monitoring, cash collection via Automated Coin Machines, and the associated road signage can all be coordinated and provided through one source in a coherent and low risk project solution.
The overall project approach by PDS presents opportunities to combine and coordinate traffic data from the Toll Collection System with the separate PMS, ITS, communication and radio road systems elements into a fully integrated system. This presents many potential benefits, including open system design approach, reduced overall project cost, improved end-user operating facilities, open software, fully coordinated traffic plans and integrated data, shorter commissioning timescales on site, and reduced overall project risk.
PDS ability to provide integrated infrastructure brings with it the opportunity for seamless project solutions for a wide range of Car parks users for example vehicle identification sytems; from secure areas needing access restricted to preauthorised personnel only, through to facilities available for the general public where driver information and efficient use of local authority amenities is the objective.
With Access Control configurations based on such as vehicle based TAG solutions or visual CCTV / surveillance enabling Automated Vehicle Identification System or Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) with access authority verified through reference to a secure database, through to simple vehicle presence systems using Induction Loops, PDS can provide optimum solutions for a range of Car Park access control facilities.
Taking integrated data from the coordinated sub-systems yields dynamic real time information for effective facility management, which supported by PDS ability to interface with and provide status indication and control for Plant equipment like Lifts, Ventilation and Lighting systems (see SCANLIGHT) PDS have the capability to present a low risk integrated solution for your project, wherever it may be.
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