History
Over 30 years of technical innovation and industry setting standards.
Golden River has been involved in traffic monitoring products for over 30 years (since 1974) when the MK2 Marksman traffic classifiers were developed. For 10 years the company grew steadily, supplying traffic counters and classifiers to UK local authorities and overseas distributors. Then in 1981, the company introduced the world’s first microprocessor-based, loop-detector and traffic classifier.
The company’s system integration experience commenced in 1984, when the UK Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) commissioned a pilot incident-detection system for the M1 motorway. The project involved 12 outstations linked to an In-station over an RS485 “multi-drop” network, with the purpose to evaluate the potential effectiveness of a networked system for national motorway incident management. This work led to Golden River being awarded the contract to develop production systems to the MIDAS specification using the Marksman 700 product line. The first MIDAS equipment went live on the M25 motorway near Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest section of motorway in 1995. Since then, about 200 kilometres of UK motorway have been installed with Golden River MIDAS systems and the Highways Agency has stated that it wishes to see MIDAS deployed throughout the national network.
In 1992 Golden River introduced the Marksman 660 to replace the MK2 and MK3 product lines. Increased computing power meant that vehicle “weigh-in-motion” could be introduced, opening worldwide markets. The Marksman 660 may be configurable both as a simple counter or as part of a complex “ITS” system.
Every single day of the year, Golden River equipment detects and records over 250 million vehicles in almost every country around the world. Every night Golden River collects vehicle classification data from hundreds of DBFO PFI sites on the UK motorway network and over half a million number plates for journey time studies. The UK Highways Agency and other national and regional traffic authorities uses thousands of Golden River Outstations to continuously provide input to their real-time traffic control systems throughout the world.
Historical Highlights
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1974. Golden River Traffic develop the first fully electronic traffic counter, the Marksman Mk2 Traffic Classifier to enable direct data transfer to a computer.
1981. The company introduce the world’s first microprocessor-based, loop-detector and traffic classifier, the Marksman Mk3 series.
1983. Golden River achieve a dominant share of both the European and American markets.
1984. The company’s system integration experience commenced with a pilot scheme introduced by The UK Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) to provide an incident-detection system for the M1 motorway. The project involved 12 outstations linked to an In-station over an RS485 “multi-drop” network, with the purpose to evaluate the potential effectiveness of a networked system for national motorway incident management.
1990. Golden River bring the benefits of computer technology to manual data collection with the HC8, a unit offering new levels of accuracy and efficiency.
1992. The new Showman Plus software utilises the Microsoft Windows platform to bring detailed analysis and presentation to the desktop.
1992. The launch of the Marksman 660 brings new levels of versatility to traffic monitoring providing any combination of count, classification, weigh-in-motion and pollution data from a variety of input methods. The M660 is still used globally as the workhorse for many monitoring applications.
1995. The development of the innovative Marksman 400, the world's lowest powered, fully featured, vehicle classifier. Ten weeks continuous operation from just two alkaline batteries!
1995. The growth of real-time data applications. The Marksman 700 becomes the first roadside processor to be installed in MIDAS applications and goes live on the M25 motorway near Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest section of motorway.
1996. The IMPACTS Video Processor system introduced to monitor traffic detection, queue length and incident detection.
1996. The low cost, flexible Marksman Central Station further enhances the suite of products available for control room data consolidation, interface and control.
1999. The tPole equipment housing solar panel sub-system, designed to blend with any environment, provides an economical, low power, easy-to- install option for real-time monitoring applications.
2001. Golden River launch new website to provide customers industry current news and information.
2002. A world-first concept of sunlight producing real-time traffic data. The solar powered TCC Outstation and tPole delivers real-time traffic data every five minutes via GPRS or the internet.
2003. The MIDAS GP, the first ever IU-19" single-board 20-loop detection system with Ethernet, NTCIP and TCP/IP compatibility.
2003. Launch of the Marksman 810 Emissions Detective. Accurate pollution detection system which provides photographic and ANPR evidence to initiate an enforcement programme.
2003. Golden River evolve a low cost, effective roadside light pollution system that builds upon existing traffic monitoring and street lighting control systems and allows controlling agencies and local authorities to manage lighting on the motorway and trunk road networks.
2004. Golden River Traffic hand over the final delivery of a 1600 outstation order destined for the English highway network operated by the Highways Agency.
2005. Golden River Traffic becomes part of the Astucia Group
2006. Astucia Group evolves into Clearview Traffic Traffic Group and new Identity for all group companies launched at the Intertraffic exhibition in April 2006
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