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Traffweb
Organising and managing data on traffic orders, signs, parking and more
Making and managing
traffic orders
(TROs & TMOs)
ParkMap
Map-based management of on-street parking controls

MovingOrdersMap
Speed limits and other moving traffic orders
Road collision
analysis
AccsMap
Map-based road casualty recording and analysis
Traffic sign and road marking design and recording
SignPlot
The UK's leading traffic sign design system

SignLoad
The UK's leading package for post and foundation design

SignMap
Map-based sign inventory & scheme design

LineMap
Fast and accurate road marking design
Routing, street inventory mapping
RouteMap
Map-based road network visualisation and analysis

InvMap
Purpose-designed street inventory mapping system

HighwayMap
Comprehensive recording of the status and extent of all highway boundaries

SurveyMap
Storage, analysis and assessment of parking survey data

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Buchanan Computing: leaders in IT for traffic and highways

A full range of products and services for traffic and highways

Buchanan Computing – experts in traffic signs and road markings

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AccsMap is the UK's most comprehensive collision analysis and case processing software

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NEWS

IHE Traffic Signs Conference

16 Nov 2022

Great to see you Traffex/Parkex 2022

We had a very successful 3 days!

New Signs for Scotland

Buchanan Computing helps Transport Scotland with TSRGD changes

Another SignPlot upgrade

Announcing SignPlot v3.75: the second major upgrade this year.

SignPlot at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

We have used our software to create designs for the examples of British traffic signs now on display at this prestigious venue.

2021 IHE Sign Structures Guide

Buchanan Computing edits and facilitates a major revision of the UK’s definitive guide to traffic sign posts and foundations

SignPlot and SignLoad 3.70

A major update, primarily to follow the revised foundation design methodology in the 2021 Sign Structures Guide that we edited for IHE and Highways England.

New supports in SignLoad & SignPlot

Adding and updating support sections and their properties from FSP and Mallatite.

We help Design Museum celebrate the work of Margaret Calvert

Royal British Legion Industries and Buchanan Computing have again given their services for the Design Museum’s celebration of the work of leading graphic designer, Margaret Calvert OBE, renowned for the UK’s road signage system, signing for the rail network and airports, and for the typeface used on the government website, gov.uk

EVENTS + TRAINING

13 June 2023

LATEST

SignLoad Professional 3.77

SignLoad now creates PDF output and has many new proprietary support options.

SignLoad Professional 3.77 is now ready for registered users to download (from here).

As well a single and multi-page PDF output and display, the other big improvements are:

New and renamed sections from Hydro, ATP, ALC and Mallatite.

Messages relating to National Highways standard CG 300 may be shown on printouts and schedules. These may be needed by those working to DMRB for trunk roads.

An option to show foundation capacity used (or spare) on the printout.

An option to change the correction for planted footings on slopes.

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