Software design company Azalient is helping drive the green revolution from its new base on Stirling University Innovation Park.
This specialist company is engaged in the global fight against climate change with its traffic management and road design technology.
Azalient Ltd software is already widely used in all of Australia’s major cities including Sydney where it was employed to design changes to the traffic flow across the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge. It has also helped avoid gridlock in a number of cities in North America.
One of the most recent projects has been to provide Dublin with a traffic control software system and follow-up training on its use.
Typically, in a city centre, a user of Azalient software would build a model of the streets controlled by traffic lights, and vary the time that each traffic light is set to green to find the best possible settings. A variation of a few seconds green time at one or two key junctions can make the difference between gridlock and smooth operation.
The software also has benefits for the environment: a good design will reduce the amount of idling traffic, and thus reduce the amount of pollution produced by traffic.
Gordon Duncan, Azalient’s Director and software engineer, said: “Pollution produced by a car going from A to B is inevitable. Pollution produced by a car going nowhere is not.”
Explaining the move to Stirling from Sydney, Gordon said: “I chose the Innovation Park because I believe it has the right image for the company and the location was good. I also believe the UK is one of the leading countries in the development of technology to combat climate change.”
Gordon is joined by Gary Millar, a transport planner and traffic engineer. They hope to add another two team members within the coming year.
Lynn Blaikie, SUIP’s Manager of Operations and Business Development, said: “The Innovation Park is set in one of the most beautiful campuses in Europe and not unnaturally one of our key objectives is to attract companies working at the cutting edge of environmental technology. Azalient is a perfect fit with our strategy, driving the development of technology to combat one of the major sources of CO2 pollution. I’m delighted to welcome them to Stirling.”
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