Q-Free has secured the first US contracts for its Kinetic Mobility advanced traffic management system.
The company, a provider of mobility solutions for smart city infrastructure, said the contracts cover three major metropolitan areas. One is with Transurban’s 95, 395 and Capital Beltway (495) Express Lanes near Washington, DC.
Another is the E-470 Public Highway Authority’s toll road on the eastern perimeter of Denver city in Colorado. The third is Cintra’s Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Express and North Tarrant Express Lanes in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth region in Texas.
Q-Free says it’s Kinetic Mobility is the first scalable advanced traffic management system (ATMS) platform that integrates all ITS devices into a single decision-making dashboard across freeways, toll roads and arterial roads. This eliminates the need for patchwork solutions. Fully customisable, it offers a selection of mix-and-match traffic management modules to give tolling operators the ultimate flexibility to create the perfect managed-lane system for their needs.
The Transurban deployment on the 95, 395 and Capital Beltway (495) Express Lanes near Washington, DC, is currently underway and will be the first deployment of Kinetic Mobility on a toll road in the US. The 95/395 Express Lanes are the longest reversible roads in the country and need intense traffic management to maintain safety.
The Transurban contract award is for 12 years and includes deployment and maintenance of Kinetic Mobility, covering just over 105km (65 miles) of roads with 298 gates, 22 gantries and 349 detection points. Q-Free said that the partnership is especially meaningful because it builds on its long-standing collaboration with tolling provider Transurban on multiple projects in Australia.
Q-Free’s contract for the E-470 Public Highway Authority’s toll road in Denver covers 75km (47 miles) of toll road and more than 130 ITS devices and equipment. The project, if the Authority exercises contract options, will last through 2030. The partnership could allow for enhanced traffic incident management coordination with both the Authority and the Colorado Department of Transportation using the same ATMS.
Q-Free’s work with tolling operator Cintra is to replace their existing ATMS with Kinetic Mobility on the Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Express and North Tarrant Express lanes that serve major thoroughfares along two of the busiest highway corridors in northern Texas. The contract includes initial deployment and five years of operations and maintenance covering around 87km (54 miles) of toll roads.
