Surrey eases the traffic with SCOOT
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• Surrey County Council is spending £605,000 on a new computerised traffic management system for the Guildford area known as SCOOT — Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique — which involves a computercontrolled system of measuring traffic flows and automatically altering traffic signals to keep traffic moving.
Preliminary work will start this week and the complete SCOOT system should be operational by the middle of 1988. It will cover Guildford town centre, extending to Woodbridge and Stoughton in the north west and a corridor along the A25/A426 as far as Merrow in the east.
In addition to its normal traffic management function, SCOOT will also have two 'green wave' routes built in, to give emergency vehicles priority at traffic lights, says the Council. • Goods vehicle registrations for vehicles above 1,525kg unladen weight increased by 22% in June compared with the same month last year, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Transport. New registrations of maximum-weight artics were up by 40% over the same period.
Over the 12 months to June new registrations of all goods vehicles were up 4% on the previous year, while registrations of maximumweight artics were up by 18%.
• TIR drivers who regularly travel through Austria are being warned by the International Road Transport Union that Austrian police are now authorised to check tachograph discs on both coaches and HGVs for speed traces. If there is evidence that the speed limit has been exceeded during the two hours preceding the chart, the police may use the disc as evidence to fine a driver.