Colas will deploy its smart roads technology on its National Highways Area 9 motorway maintenance and response contract later this year, covering the West Midlands and surrounding counties.
Known as Anais, the technology uses traditional road monitoring methods and enhances them digitally to identify potentially hazardous zones based on on-board driving data. After analysing the data, teams at Colas make recommendations to the infrastructure managers on how to improve these zones.
This is the first time Colas has deployed Anais outside of France and also the first time on a motorway network. Colas will deploy it on Area 9 for a year from June.
Colas has the eight-year motorway maintenance and response contract for Area 9, which covers the West Midlands, plus Shropshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and part of north Gloucestershire.
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