Bangkok--16 Mar--Siemens
The Industrial Solutions & Services Group (I&S) of Siemens Ltd. together with its consortium partner Siemens AG from Germany have received an order from the Expressway & Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand to install a complete systems for toll collection and traffic management for the Ramindra-Outer Ring Road. The order is worth Bt 274 million, and the completion of the project is expected by the end of 2008.
To improve the flow of traffic and thus to reduce traffic congestion, Siemens will provide a comprehensive toll collection and traffic control system for Ramindra-Outer Ring Project. The project includes the latest generation SIEMENS Central Traffic Management System for Highways, variable message signs and CCTV plus all associated infrastructure. An innovated communication system will transmit the traffic data to the central traffic computer for analysis. Information on the traffic situation will then be generated and passed on to car drivers with variable message signs and information panels.
“We are very delighted and honored that ETA has trusted us to be the system supplier for the Ramindra-Outer Ring Expressway Project. With our state-of-the-art technology we will make our contribution to ETAs efforts in continuing to make traffic safer and relieve congestion. I am particularly proud that we will be delivering our latest generation Central System incorporating our experience from many of our traffic projects around the globe - from Munich over Moscow to Hong Kong. It is a highly modular system and could be extended with many functionalities in the future”, stated Mr. Michal Peter, Executive Vice President and Head of Industrial Solutions & Services Group of Siemens Ltd.,Thailand.
“The Ramindra-Outer Ring Project is the first project ETA awarded to Siemens. This is a good start to create a new quality to the good relationship between Siemens and ETA,” added Mr. Michael Peter.
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is the integrator of systems and solutions for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation, operation and the entire life cycle. I&S uses its own products and systems and process technologies in order to enhance productivity and improve competitiveness of companies in the sectors of metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In fiscal 2006 (to September 30) I&S employed a total of 36,200 people worldwide and achieved
total sales of EUR 8.819 billion.
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