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week prior to the weekend outage. Halmar’s use of this approach on the Post Avenue Bridge Replacement project was a win-win for all concerned including the LIRR, the local community, the traveling public and for the Design-Build Team as well. The bridge was able to be built off site in a controlled environment, resulting in better accuracy of the structure compared with field erection, resulting in better alignment and fit in the field. The LIRR got a superior end product installed in one weekend outage, on-time and ready for their critical high volume

mainline service, the local community did not have to deal with the noise and interruption of typically long construction schedules, and the traveling public that depends on the railroad for their weekday commute, probably returned Monday morning without ever knowing what had taken place over the weekend. This project represented the first component of the much larger LIRR Third Track project which was awarded to the 3rd Track Constructors (a Dragados, Picone, Halmar JV) in January of 2018.

TECHNOLOGY

SINELEC

One of the most progressive branches of the Gavio family is Sinelec the Gavio group technology company. Sinelec gathers together the technological expertise of the group in the fields of transportation technology, telecommunications and IT solutions. The experience gained in more than 20 years in developing, installing and maintaining technological equipment in the highway sector makes Sinelec one of the top players in the design and supply of future digital transportation infrastructure. Since their inception, they have been working with large domestic and international companies, both public and private, helping them to achieve the most ambitious of goals while respecting the highest standards of quality and staying within agreed upon budgets and timeframes. Their technologies can be found, for example, operating along Italy’s principal motorways, where they have long been making it possible to manage multiple toll collection services and automatically monitor traffic conditions and relay that information to customers in real time, while providing lines of communication between technicians and personnel and video surveillance and support in emergency situations. New Challenges in the European Marketplace

A single device built into cars, motorcycles and heavy goods vehicles that would allow them to traverse the entire European toll-road network, paying what they owe based on the route they actually travel.

This is the ambitious project launched by the European Union under the name European Electronic Toll Service (EETS), a system that would allow for the interoperability of the electronic road toll systems on the motorways of the various European states and which, by introducing the “actual route” concept, will allow users to pay a fee that corresponds to the number of kilometres actually travelled. It is a true revolution in the world of transport, which will streamline every journey, whether it be for business or pleasure. Innovative technologies for toll collection

One of Sinelec’s strategic sectors of operation is the study and implementation of new toll collection technologies. Thanks to several years of research and experimentation, they have developed an innovative digital ecosystem capable of satisfying the needs of the market and the requirements of European interoperability directives. Their systems represent an important step forwards in comparison to the standards present on the market today. They combine the most recent equipment with the most advanced software to create versatile and scalable platforms, designed based on our Customers’ needs. High degrees of efficiency

The use of multiple cutting-edge components (from the antennas to the controllers, from the cameras to the VoIP communications devices, from OCR number plate recognition devices to the detection of OBU devices in vehicles), all completely integrated with each other and with the central management system, allows for

degrees of efficiency that, even in the most complex of situations, are on average higher than 95% (one of the highest standards on the market). They are also fully compliant with the European Standards in force. However, we do not operate only on motorways. The versatility of our technologies allows us to design tailored manual and electronic payment systems and vehicle classification and tracking systems applicable across a wide and diverse variety of sectors.

Big things are coming:

Predictive traffic flow management modeling of the operating conditions technological development of smart roads -interconnected vehicles cooperative Solutions and autonomous cars -V2V and V2I communications

At Sinelec they believe that tomorrow begins today…

“Our work requires us to “look towards the future” in order to understand each coming change and development and be able to recommend to our Customers the technological solutions that will allow them to face future challenges in an efficient and effective manner.”

NEWSWORTHY MATT KATKOCIN

Construction News and The Construction Industry Council (CIC) puts together a monthly section that features profiles on industry professionals that they consider to be the next generation. In June of last year they reached out to our own Matt Katkocin to put together a piece about the things, that in his childhood, influenced his career choices and the path his choices have taken him. It also included things like his favorite projects and future goals.

Resources: http://caiwestchester.org/news/next-gen-kids-monthly-profiles-of-the-industrys-new-generation/matt-katkocin-p-e/