Previously Siemens Traffic Controls, the business became part of the Siemens Mobility Division in the UK on 1st October 2008, which contains four other businesses covering the rail, baggage handling and postal sorting sectors. Our business has changed its name to reflect the new structure and will now be known as Siemens Mobility, Traffic Solutions. For more information about the Mobility Division, please click here.

About us

Siemens designs, markets, manufactures, installs, operates and maintains an unrivalled portfolio of traffic management products. Our experience ranges from major projects such as the design, build and operation of the London congestion charging scheme down to the smallest local traffic control projects. 

With over 30 years experience in microprocessor-based traffic controller design, Siemens provides proven controllers with innovative features. Our product range includes intelligent urban traffic control systems, variable message signs, public transport priority, vehicle and pedestrian detection and strategic guidance systems. We also provide solutions that enhance road safety and improve the traffic flow in congested urban and inter-urban areas.

We are committed to innovation and sustainable solutions. We re-invented the traffic light with Extra Low Voltage (ELV) technology and have developed new approaches to traffic management such as the PC SCOOT adaptive traffic control system which now operates in over 200 cities around the world.  Our innovative work on low-energy LEDs in traffic lights was recognised in 2009, when Siemens won the Energy and Environment i-award, the first award of its kind to be backed by the Government.

The company employs over 800 people throughout the UK, with its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Poole, Dorset. The UK manufacturing facility was recognised as “Factory of the Year” at the prestigious 2010 Best Factory Awards, organised by Cranfield School of Management.

Our engineers, technicians and consultants are all experts in their field and passionate about their work. In the UK, Siemens has several hundred skilled installation and maintenance engineers and a fully equipped training school with full time lecturers. Siemens is proud to maintain over half of all the Traffic Signals in the UK. Operating from a number of regional depots, our Field Service engineers work to install and maintain traffic control systems, both from Siemens and other manufacturers and are supported 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by a team of dedicated customer service representatives in our Contact Centre.

In addition to developing and maintaining innovative Traffic products, Siemens also has a growing consultancy service team. A team of experts based across the UK provide a range of services from junction design to modeling and simulation. Comprehensive and expert support can be provided, from design of equipment configuration to on street validation and asset management.

The Siemens product portfolio extends to the growing export market too. The largest Urban Traffic Control (UTC) system from Siemens is installed in Santiago, Chile. Based on PC SCOOT technology, it manages traffic at over 2,500 intersections in a city of 6 million people. Siemens has also successfully designed, manufactured and installed traffic management solutions in Asia and Africa.​