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ARTiSAN Studio Chosen By Serco to Develop and Maintain Advanced Traffic Management System

Posted on: Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 09:09 CDT

CHELTENHAM, England, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ARTiSAN Software Tools, a global leader for UML 2.0 and SysML-based real-time systems and software modeling tools, has announced that Serco Integrated Transport has chosen ARTiSAN Studio as the system modeling environment to create a new control system the company has been contracted to develop and maintain for an advanced traffic management project.

"What appealed to us the most about ARTiSAN Studio is its concurrent modeling environment that allowed our analysts to work collaboratively to quickly build the System Model," said Chris Bax, Senior Project Manager.

The system is being designed to make the best possible use of existing road space and help control congestion. It aims to increase the reliability of journey times, provide an improved travel environment and improve the quality and availability of information to motorists.

Real time data will be collected by equipment such as monitoring loops within the road surface and CCTV cameras, which constantly monitor road and traffic conditions and feed into a control system. The system will then automatically implement and control overhead lane-specific signals and variable message signs to control road traffic through variable speed limits and designate lane availability. This will include the use of the hard shoulder during an incident or heavily congested conditions. The system will generate a historical log of activities for later analysis and review.

The control system has been future-proofed to allow for expansion, both in terms of additional functionality such as access management, and full-scale national deployment, dependent upon requirements.

"Serco's traffic management project adds to our rapidly expanding transportation client portfolio which covers automotive electronics, railway signaling and control, and now road traffic management," said Jeremy Goulding, President and CEO of ARTiSAN Software Tools. "Our growing reputation and success in the transportation market is due, by and large, to our extensive commitment to, and experience of, safety critical systems development."

About Serco

Serco is an international task management contractor to government and industry, providing comprehensive engineering and support services across a wide range of applications. Serco runs a number of road, rail and aviation networks around the world and has contracts ranging from systems development and maintenance support tasks to £multi-million road traffic management operations, on-line information services, light and heavy rail operations and maintenance, and air traffic services and operations.

Serco has a unique capability that combines the expertise from these operations, to fund and deliver fully integrated transport solutions in partnership with Government, aimed at improving modal balance, quality and safety of travel.

Serco Integrated Transport, a division of Serco, specializes in the development and integration of complex monitoring and control systems for road transport projects. It is recognized as the leading UK developer of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and maintains, operates and supplies traffic management systems on more than 18,000km of roads worldwide. This includes national systems for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and New South Wales in Australia as well as systems in Stockholm, Hong Kong and Auckland.

About ARTiSAN Software Tools

ARTiSAN Software Tools is the leading supplier of collaborative modeling tools for requirements analysis, specification, design and development of complex applications. The company provides standards-based, multi-user tool support from architectural frameworks through systems design to software implementation. ARTiSAN offers products, services and a process for systems and software modeling to accelerate the development of next-generation real- time systems while ensuring that they always meet requirements. ARTiSAN enables engineering teams to visualize, design and validate systems before building them, and simplifies implementation with code generation and software reuse. Winner of the 2005 SD Times 100 award in the Modeling category for bringing UML and SysML to real-time embedded systems, ARTiSAN offers the most advanced tools for complex applications development. Founded in March 1997, ARTiSAN is privately held with headquarters in Cheltenham, United Kingdom. The company has regional sales offices and distributors throughout the world. For more information, call +44 (0)1242 229300 internationally, or 1(888)511-7975 from the US; or visit http://www.artisansw.com/.

Statements in this news release looking forward in time are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including market acceptance and demand for our new products, our dependencies on our silicon wafer suppliers, the impact of competitive products and pricing, technological and product development risks and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Actual results may differ materially from forward-looking statements.

Please send reader enquiries to: Emma Allen ARTiSAN Software Tools Suite 701, Eagle Tower, Montpellier Drive, Cheltenham, GL50 1TA, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1242 229300 Email: emma.allen@artisansw.com

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Source: PRNewswire

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