Ticketer products - Road Restriction Alerts
Ticketer’s Road Restriction Alerts (RRA) solution is on hand to help your fleet steer clear of roads with restricted access, be it due to height and width restrictions, navigational restrictions, or more temporal ones such as adverse weather conditions affecting routes.
Within the Ticketer Portal, operators can select from a series of navigational restrictions, e.g. “no-left turn”, “no right turn”, as well as set fully customisable hazard restrictions, e.g. “flooded road – drive carefully”. The ETM can then detect when the bus is approaching any restricted roads and warn the driver via an audio and visible alert which appears on the ETM ‘s screen.
Height and width restrictions for routes are also easily set using the latest dataset of restricted roads across the UK together with dimensions of the vehicles.
“Ticketer’s enhanced driver alert functionality improves our drivers’ access to critical information. The seamless implementation of this customer-focused technology will allow us to introduce the update at pace and with ease, right across our UK-wide fleet. We look forward to working with Ticketer over the coming months to integrate learnings from the pilot and support the wider rollout of this important ETM update.”
Simon Pearson, Commercial Director at First Bus
SIMPLE INTEGRATION TO EXISTING TICKETER ETMs
Road Restriction Alerts are set-up on the Ticketer Portal and published to your Ticketer ETMs, so there’s no costly hardware or installation requirements and you can be up and running in no time!
Navigational and hazardous restrictions
Set navigational restrictions, (“no left-turn”, “no right-turn”) as well as more customisable hazardous restrictions which can be used for anything you require, (e.g. “flooded road”, “temporary roadworks”).
ON-SCREEN AND AUDIO ALERT
When in the vicinity of a road with restricted access, an audio and on-screen alert will show on your ETM. Different icons will be shown on screen to help visually communicate the type of restriction, making it easily identifiable for drivers. There’s also the option to provide extra text to your alert, should you wish to provide more context on the restriction.
Customisable geofences
The geofences used for height and width restrictions can be edited and modified to amend their radius, heading, dimension or even removing them from being sent to the ETMs to eliminate unnecessary false positives.
OPTIONAL TIMEFRAME
To reduce administration, you can set a predicted time frame on your restriction so it automatically lifts at the end date provided on the Ticketer Portal.
Road restriction functionality
Operators can edit the vehicle attributes to ensure that restricted access is only alerted when necessary. For example, a low bridge alert may not need to be signalled when a single decker is approaching a low bridge.
ALERTS ARE ISSUED TO BACK OFFICE
Whenever an ETM displays an alert to the driver, the event is captured by the ETM and issued to the back office for audit purposes.
REGULAR UPDATES
The National Gazetteer is maintained through regular updates ensuring the list of restricted roads are synchronised with any local edits made.
