Morrison Water Services looks to put Yorkshire traffic management into the fast lane

Morrison Water Services, has teamed up with a traffic management technology specialist, to reduce the risk of customer disruption through repeated street works in its work on behalf of Yorkshire Water.

In a partnership with one.network, Morison has developed a cloud-based traffic management platform to enable its water services’ repair and maintenance teams to plan, manage and communicate information on streetworks though a “virtual survey” of operational sites. The platform, Morrison claimed, offers “full visibility of risk factors” and acts as “a central repository of traffic management plans that can be accessed on the ground and out-of-hours.”

Morrison Water Services head of streetworks, noticing and permitting for the Yorkshire Water contract, Andrew Bailey, said “Creating a traffic management plan would have previously taken a week but can now be done in under 12 minutes. Our initial aim for the Yorkshire Water contract was to deliver 30-40% of our traffic management plans via the platform within the first 12 months, but we are now delivering approximately 80%.”