History

Through its award-winning Astucia and Golden River brands, Clearview Traffic Group Ltd have been a leading manufacturer of intelligent transport systems for over 50 years combined, and we pride ourselves on working closely with our customers (be they local authorities, government agencies or the private sector) to provide them with a range of product and/or service based solutions that cost effectively meet their needs. Our solutions are responsible for detecting and recording over 250 million vehicles every day and radically improving driver behaviour, reducing night time accidents in key black spots by as much as 70%.

To understand more of our history please view the interactive timeline below:

 

  • 1974

    Golden River Traffic is established and develops 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 achieves 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.


     

  • 1988

    Count On Us founded by Andrew Burton

  • 1990

    Golden River brings 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.

  • 1992

    Astucia (UK) Limited was founded by Martin Dicks to provide intelligent Traffic Management Systems, best known for its intelligent solar and mains powered LED road stud products.

  • 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 first Astucia solar powered road studs were installed in the road.

  • 1996

    The IMPACTS Video Processor system introduced to monitor traffic detection, queue length and incident detection.

  • 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

    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.

  • 2003

    The MIDAS GP, the first ever IU-19" single-board 20-loop detection system with Ethernet, NTCIP and TCP/IP compatibility.

  • 2003

    John Madejski OBE DL acquires Astucia Ltd

  • 2004

    Golden River Traffic becomes part of the Astucia Group

  • 2005

    Astucia acquires Count On Us Limited

  • 2006

    Astucia Group evolves into Clearview Traffic Group Ltd and new Identity for all group companies launched at the Intertraffic exhibition in April 2006.

  • 2007

    Astucia launch the new Mk4 SolarLite Flush Road Stud

  • 2007

    Golden River launch the new M680 and the M720 rack mountable vehicle count and classifiers 

  • 2009

    Golden River launch M100 Wireless Vehicle Detection product

  • 2010

    Golden River launch the M210 logging stud to provide a low cost, easy to install volumetric counting product for temporary and permanent applications

  • 2011

    Astucia launch the IRS2 hardwired intelligent road stud

  • 2012

    Clearview Traffic Group reaches the milestone of 150 Golden River M100 wireless vehicle detector installations

  • 2012

    Golden River launch the M830 Bluetooth traffic monitoring system

  • 2012

    Clearview Traffic Group merge their Count On Us business with Sky High Plc