[January 2008]
ARS SE Celebrates 7 years - Since it's inception in January, 2001, ARS SE has traversed an eventful path and scaled ambitious heights. What other fitting occasion than this to pause and reflect on the growth milestones, the achievements and challenges, the lessons learnt and dreams fulfilled! From a handful of employees to its size today, ARS SE has growth from strength to strength and is now a name to reckon with.

[December 2006]
Veolia - ARS has won the subcontract for the supply of the Dynamic Bus Stop Display technology tendered by Veolia, Dutch branch of the French International Veolia (www.veolia.com). The Dynamic Bus Stop Display project is the largest of its kind in The Netherlands and probably in Europe, Veolia recently acquired a 10 year concession for the exploitation of public transport by bus and train in Limburg (Southern province in the Netherlands). The concession has started on 10 December 2006. The total number of bus stops is 3,500. All bus stops will be equipped with a new type of bus stop signs of which 1,000 will be equipped with dynamic information on the departure times of buses.

[December 2006]
PRAV Officially Approved - ARS has completed the electronic surveying to determine the optimum count of vehicles carrying hazardous substances, on state-, provincial and municipal roads in Netherlands. This Project is part of the Ministry of Water and State (RWS) strengthening program to carry out the external security policy in 2004-2009.

[October 2006]
PNB Officially Accepted - PNB (Provincie Noord Brabant) Telpunten brings automation to the real time processing, visualization and data delivery from 5 major counting/classification points in the Province of North Brabant. Governing council of North Brabant (the second largest province in The Netherlands) has officially accepted the system developed by ARS.

[September 2006]
Melinda 2006 Modules into Production - Through its web site, the Dutch government informs the public about (scheduled) road works. The road works that are active within that date range are shown in the map. 3 to 5 different users work on Melinda simultaneously. They monitor the Dutch roads 24*7, so the entire team of operators is about 25 people. In the off-peak hours they handle conflicts and import errors in Melinda. (During peak hours obviously their effort goes to other systems, handling traffic jams and accidents.)

[August 2006]
ARS SE achieves CMMI Level 3 - ARS Software Engineering joins the ranks of 300 organizations worldwide to have achieved CMMI Level 3.

The appraisal conducted by Mr. Kris Puthucode, Lead Appraiser, Software Quality Center LLC, USA, is a thrust to ARS SE’s commitment to provide unmatched business value to it’s customer through sustained process excellence initiatives.
CMMI, developed by the Software Engineering Institute, of the Carnegie Mellon University, provides an integrated approach to strengthening not only the software engineering processes, but also risk management and structured decision making leading to enhanced Quality, Predictability & Customer Focus.

[July 2006]
Metro wins national award - Metro (West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive) has won a prestigious national award for technology innovation that uses a system developed by MVA Consultancy and ARS Traffic & Transport Technology. The announcement of Metro's success was made at the National Transport Awards, run by the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen's Centre for Transport Policy, on July 18. Metro received this award for the Streamlined Production of Road Side Displays and Interchange Passenger Information.

[December 2005]
Utilization test - The conducted pre-research by SWINGH in 2004 was to settle up a test to get insight in the working of the financial price incentives for the use of road in peak hour, the so called ‘Rewarding Test’ and will have a follow up, namely the ‘Utilization Test’. The Utilization Test is a part of a scientific research to the manner at which the price policy, besides the existing steering instruments, can contribute to improve the traffic flow and utilization of the road network. Significant part of the utilization test is the practical test.

Rabobank, ARS T&TT, the innovation program ‘Wegen naar de Toekomst’ of Ministry of Waterways and Public Works, RDW, TU Delft, UU and VU are at the moment preparing the practical test. Main objective is to research, with a scientific approach, if the positive incentives can contribute to the change of the drivers’ attitude, such as choosing another route, public transportation at departure time. The aim is to execute this test in 2006. Test area will be on the A12 between Zoetermeer and The Hague. Participants will receive a positive incentive in money or other way when avoiding the A12 during peak hours. Participation is on voluntary basis

[September 2005]
M&I Upgrade - ARS T&TT has obtained an assignment to renew the traffic measure points of Bureau Traffic Enforcement of the Public Prosecution Service in 2005. A significant part of the assignment is to maintain the technology, by which the automatized data can be read out. The power supply will be obtained from a sonar panel.

[August 2005]
Utilization test - ARS T&TT will execute a project, in cooperation with Rabobank and the Universities of Amsterdam and Delft. This project involves a research towards the financial factors, which influence the traffic behaviour. This research will take place on the basis of a study of an economic/traffic model and related to this, a practical test with approximately 1500 home-work travellers will be executed. In view of the research’s outcome, it can be determined which type of price policy will be most suitable for a specific region; which technology will be used and what the consequences for specific target groups will be.

[July 2005]
Traffic management in the vehicle - ARS T&TT will be working on a European project, in cooperation with road operators from other European countries. This European project involves a research to find out the possibilities, to apply traffic management solutions in vehicle systems. Examples of traffic management solutions for the vehicle are traffic signs and traffic diversions. But also within a few centimetres accurate position determination based on Galileo. Due to this it can be fixed whether vehicles are driving on a dangerous course, which has consequences for other road users. A part of this project contains a test on the corridor between Rotterdam and Antwerp.

[June 2005]
M&I Services - ARS T&TT has obtained an assignment from Bureau Traffic Enforcement of the Public Prosecution Service. As of October 2005, ARS T&TT will be managing the network of approximately 400 traffic detection points in The Netherlands. The network will be used for developments in using the road, type of traffic and also to register speed violation. The agreement’s duration stands with a minimum of two years.

[May 2005]
Section control A12 Lunetten - ARS T&TT has obtained an assignment for the supply of a section control system on the A12 at Lunetten. This assignment is originating from Bureau Traffic Enforcement of the Public Prosecution Service. Section control is relatively a new method to measure speeds and to fine offenders. The Section Control on the A12 runs from junction Lunetten until junction Oudenrijn and refers to the main and parallel roads in both directions. Maximum speed on the main roads will be reduced to 100 km/u and to 80 km/u on the parallel roads.

[May 2005]
Section control A12 Utrechtsebaan - ARS T&TT has obtained an assignment for the supply of a section control system on the A12 at the Utrechtsebaan. This assignment is originating from Bureau Traffic Enforcement of the Public Prosecution Service. The section control is located between the Utrechtsebaan and Voorburg, in both directions. Maximum speed will be reduced to 80 km/u. In general, it is to be expected, that the input of the section control, which purpose is to improve the traffic safety and the exploitation of the road network, will increase in the upcoming years.

[December 2004]
Dutch Minister of Trade Mrs. Karien van Gennip has started the operation of the Stockholm Travel Times system at the Stockholm traffic information centre. The services were developed and are run by ARS T&TT. The services use 130 camera's and provide actual travel times in the urban environment.