PIPS Technology has supplied ANPR (Automatic
Number Plate Recognition) cameras for use in an Over-height Vehicle
Detection system for London's Blackwall Tunnel. The project was
coordinated by VMS Limited and completed on behalf of Transport for
London via Serco.
The Blackwall Tunnel is a free tunnel which runs
under the River Thames in the UK, from Blackwall Point in East
Greenwich, to East India Dock Road in Poplar. At the time of
opening, the Blackwall Tunnel was the longest running underwater
tunnel in the world.
Traffic has increased vastly since the tunnel opened and
improvements have needed to be made, including the opening of a
second lane in 1967. In recent times, vehicles can be too high to
pass under the tunnel resulting in increased congestion. The
Over-height Vehicle Detection system, which PIPS has been involved
in, is making this issue a thing of the past. > more
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