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Intellitag® provides cost savings and reduction in carbon emissions on the A509 Milton Keynes East diversion route.

The installation of HRS’ Intellitag® has resulted in a significant cost saving following a reduction in the amount of maintenance checks, labour requirements and carbon emissions.

The Challenge

The A509 road closure, focuses on the redevelopment of the existing road network, the building of 5000 new homes and a multitude of commercial developments in the area.
The closure has a 13-mile diversion route which was being manually checked 12 times a day.

Our Solution

The HRS team evaluated the suitability of using Intellitags along the diversion, knowing that we could demonstrate an overall cost, resource and carbon saving to the client, providing digital evidence of the required maintenance checks whilst remaining fully compliant.
Moving the client towards an event-based approach to site maintenance.

Outcome

The existing requirement of 4 operatives on site 24/7 was removed, meaning they could be deployed elsewhere. The client moved from manual checks every 2 hours to 100% event-based within 1 month and found the reduction in risk exposure to the workforce a huge benefit as they only needed to be deployed when the system alerted that there was a problem with a sign along the diversion route. The client could log into the HRS online portal from anywhere and at any time to monitor the diversion route. The reduced visits to site resulted in lower vehicle use meaning less diesel being used and therefore a reduction in carbon emissions.

The scheme is expected to complete in May 2025, since the installation of Intellitag® in May 2024, the monthly saving on site is currently:

  • 900-man hours
  • 4680 miles
  • 615 litres of diesel
  • 1.65 tonnes of carbon

This demonstrates a significant cost saving over the projected duration of the project.

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“The Intellitags are absolute lifesavers across the board really. We have gone from 4 operatives on site over a 24-hour period, 7 days a week to none. The savings that come with only having to perform reactive maintenance activities are vast. We have made huge weekly savings across the board on both fuel and wages.
The Intellitags also hugely reduce risk, we no longer need to place operatives on sites, being able to effectively perform full site-maintenance from the office gives you a huge advantage against decreasing incidents as well. We can now easily reduce working-hours, travelling time, fuel spend and risk across the board. We will definitely use these on future projects where possible.”
Steve Day, Go Traffic Management (Depot Manager, London & Southeast)