Case Studies
Bristol Water Partners with Bentley System's Exor Software Team
Bristol Water has partnered with Bentley System's Exor software team to develop the Utility 'Executive Dashboard' reporting tool - a reporting pack under the Information Manager product, to better meet the needs of utility companies across the UK.
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Kansas Department of Transportation Utilizes Exor Technology to Improve Planning & Proactive Maintenance 
Before the economic crisis hit, Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) recognized the need to focus on a strategic approach to asset management and road mantenance. And as such KDOT has aligned its transportation programs to reflect the realities of funding streams.
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Gloucestershire's highways infrastructure
has been under the weather in recent years, but thankfully a proactive asset management strategy has kept
the roads open
Exor helps to manage the repair work from the initial report from the Safety Inspector or member of the public, the raising of the works order for the repair to be programmed and the record of the completion time and notes. This provides a clear audit trail from when the problem was reported to the repair which provides evidence in the defense of claims.
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Wiltshire County Council implements Exor System to Improve Management of Public Rights of Way
Exor Corporation announced the successful implementation of its Public Rights of Way (PROW) software into Wiltshire County Council. The Authority will use the solution to manage the County’s 6,162 km Public Rights of Way network in order to facilitate better management of public enquiries and help Rights of Way officers to operate more efficiently and effectively.
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Wales’ roads have never been easier to manage, thanks to a Shared Services highways management approach provided by the Welsh Assembly Government
Since deploying a centralised highways asset management system in 2004, the Welsh Assembly Government has transformed the nation’s road management activities, thanks to what is now a clean, rapid flow of information across local authority and organisational borders.
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Portsmouth City Council and Colas Pioneering Road Maintenance PFI – Five Years On
A pioneering Private Finance Initiative (PFI) for road maintenance between Portsmouth City Council and Colas has transformed the quality of the road network over the past five years. And Colas, by leveraging Exor’s Asset Management Software for Highways, has been able to prioritise a proactive £60m investment in Portsmouth’s highway network.
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Cornwall Council Chooses Exor Software to Ensure TMA Compliance 
When the latest phase of the Traffic Management Act 2004 was introduced last year, Highways Authorities were faced with making significant changes to the way they operated to ensure that roads were being managed effectively in line with TMA requirements. By implementing web-based TMA compliant software, Cornwall Highways, Maintenance and Construction (CORMAC) has been able to fulfil its Network Management Duties, minimising road congestion and disruption to vehicles and pedestrians. The software supplied by Exor Corporation enables CORMAC to comply with new Noticing requirements and ensures better works management and co-operation between traffic authorities and utilities.
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Exor System enables Northamptonshire to Become First Council to Successfully Collect on TMA Fixed Penalty Notices
The Traffic Management Act 2004 (TMA) has allowed Local Authorities the ability to issue Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN’s) to works promoters that fail to correctly inform the Authority of the status of any piece of work planned or being undertaken on any of the roads within the Authority’s area. Northamptonshire County Council has been a principle organisation at the forefront of TMA delivery in the UK and is the first Local Authority to successfully enforce an electronic FPN using specialist Street Works software from Exor Corporation.
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Highways Teams Join Together in UK First.
Dorset, Bournemouth & Poole Highway Authorities invest in shared services to improve road maintenance
Shared Service delivery is becoming an ever more high profile public sector issue, as Central Government continues to drive for significant cost savings across the board. Yet there is a clear divergence across the wider public sector about the extent of services that should be included within the shared services remit.
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Warwickshire County Council Demonstrates ROI of Public Spending on the Region’s Road Network Through Field Based Technology...
Over the past decade UK Local Authorities have faced increasing pressure to improve levels of service and deliver higher quality, safer roads and infrastructure to their citizens. However, with money from the public purse always at a premium, many Councils have focused on undertaking a very reactive approach to remedial and safety work.
Yet by approaching highway maintenance from a more strategic perspective and investing in the underlying business processes to increase timeliness and quality of the data, Local Authorities can significantly improve the return-on-investment on public spending to achieve greater gains in efficiency. Many, like Warwickshire County Council, have achieved this by the introduction of field based technology, which has resulted in an ROI of £140,000 efficiency savings in year one.
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Severn Trent Water – Permits: a utility perspective...
Since 2004 when Royal Assent was given for the Traffic Management Act (TMA), affected companies have invested heavily in upgrading their IT systems and implementing new business processes, in order to comply with the new regulations.
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Parity Between Utilities and Local Authority in East Sussex…
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) is taking a unique approach to the Traffic Management Act (TMA) and is imposing the same exacting financial penalties on its own street works notices as it does on utilities.
Under the TMA authorities in England and Wales are required to show parity for street works notices, but in January 2007 East Sussex took this a step further and ensured its term maintenance contractor, May Gurney, has a contractual obligation to pay financial penalties if they submit incorrect notices.
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Dorset County Council: Electronic Document and Record Management Systems (EDRMS) for recording and archiving ele ctronic documents
Over the past ten years Local Authorities and commercial organisations have faced genuine challenges in how they store, manage, retain and utilise the many forms of electronic data they accumulate. One of the strategies public sector organisations are adopting is corporate Electronic Document and Record Management Systems (EDRMS) for recording and archiving electronic documents such as plans and forms, in addition to electronic mail and scanned letters– this is the route Dorset County Council has adopted.
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South East Water: The Challenges of the Traffic Management Act for South East Water
South East Water one of the UK’s leading water suppliers saw the Traffic Management Act (TMA), and its new codes of conduct, having a significant impact on its business processes. As an organisation covering Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, Sussex and Surrey – a geographical area in excess of 3,000 square kilometres - it needed to up-grade its IT systems noticing capability, and fast.
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Mobile IT Solutions are at the forefront of delivering pioneering
communications... 
Worldwide all highways infrastructure maintenance service providers face common problems created by managing large, often remote areas and sizeable workforce teams that are reliant on depots for exchanges of information - via verbal and paper instructions. Mobile IT solutions are now at the forefront of delivering pioneering ways of communicating time sensitive information from field workers into centralized reporting and management operations.
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York – United Kingdom: Tourism at the heart of York’s IT Improvements for Street Scene Management…
City of York Council is using pioneering technology, from Exor, to manage their street scene activities to ensure the historical city’s unique charm and character is maintained; and more importantly improved. Street scene is the description of the roads, footways and verges that make up the environment we move around in, either on foot or in a vehicle.
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Egnatia Odos SA – Greece: A collision of history with the electronic 21st century…
The origin of a two thousand year old Roman road running the length of Greece is one of the world’s oldest and it is now amongst one of the most technically sophisticated and advanced in terms of its construction and maintenance systems.
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Main Roads Western Australia: World Leaders in Infrastructure Asset Management...
Today Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) is one of the world’s largest users of an integrated linear asset management system designed specifically to manage complex highway networks that cover expansive geographical areas. With its geography roughly equivalent to the size of Western Europe, it contains some of the planet’s most isolated roads and extreme conditions with temperatures ranging from below 0 to in excess of 50 degrees centigrade.
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Hampshire County Council – United Kingdom: The Dawn of Electronic Government – a partnership approach...
One of the most important factors for UK regional authorities is providing local businesses and the wider community with useful and informative public services. To that end Hampshire County Council is on course to deliver two thirds of all such services electronically in 2005 in line with ‘Modernizing Government Objectives.’
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