Davenport, Iowa – MoboTrex has announced the merger with Ocean State Signal, a distributor of Traffic Control equipment providing support for the six New England states. With this merger, MoboTrex is now represented directly in 21 states as well as Washington D.C.

Ocean State Signal will become a division of MoboTrex but will remain as Ocean State Signal and continue to be a leading distributor across the New England region.

With the merger, Ocean State Signal now has access to MoboTrex’s resources, allowing it to focus more on the customer and provide stronger local support and service in the New England region.

“The merger with Ocean State Signal expands the MoboTrex geographic footprint into the very important and growing New England states, further expands our strategic relationships with our critical vendor partners and adds their strong leadership team with high technical skills to the larger entity.” Bob Clamp – CEO, MoboTrex

“We’re excited to join forces with MoboTrex, as we share similar values on providing customer solutions and providing great customer service. While we will continue to operate independently under the OSS brand, the combination with MoboTrex will provide us with greater resources to better serve our customers and empower our employees.” Lisa Rutherford – President, Ocean State Signal

Lisa Rutherford will continue to be the President of Ocean State Signal and the company will stay in its current location in Smithfield, RI.

About Ocean State Signal
Ocean State Signal located in Smithfield, Rhode Island has been proudly serving the New England traffic and ITS needs since 1990.

Guided by a commitment to outstanding service and a dedication to integrity, they have strived to build relationships with State and City agencies, utility departments, traffic engineering firms, electrical services contractors, and vendor partners. With over a 100 years of combined experience of hard work and dedication to providing excellent service, Ocean State Signal continues to grow and succeed in the New England Area. They are New England’s leading supplier and integrator of Traffic Control Equipment.

About MoboTrex
MoboTrex provides reliable and smart traffic control products to make intersections safe and efficient. The company has been committed to providing advanced traffic management solutions since its start serving the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) industry in 1969. As an innovator in intelligent mobility operations, MoboTrex manufactures traffic signals, traffic control cabinets, intersection control hardware and software, and specialty products.

MoboTrex is proud to be an American owned‐and‐operated manufacturer. These products are proudly manufactured in our Texas facility by over 100 United States employees.

Headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, MoboTrex also has locations in Pflugerville, Texas; Powhatan, Virginia; and Volo, Illinois, to better serve customers.

MoboTrex was recently recognized as one of the Quad Cities Fastest Growing Companies by the Quad Cities Regional Business Journal.

The Fastest Growing Companies awards identify and honor the region’s most dynamic companies that have made significant contributions to the strength of the local economy.  Honorees were ranked according to revenue growth over a two-year period with both dollar and percentage increases taken into account.

Headquartered in Davenport, IA, MoboTrex has been proud to be an American owned‐and‐operated manufacturer since 1969.

Have you considered the quality of your traffic cabinet or where your tax dollars are being used to manufacture cabinets?  Many municipalities and cities often do not realize their traffic cabinets are being outsourced and made in other countries.

You may see labels or hear from others saying their cabinets are “assembled in America”.  It is important to realize that is quite different from being completed “made in America” as MoboTrex is.  The quality of a traffic cabinet only “assembled in America” could potentially be significantly less.  Manufactures will completely make a cabinet outside of the United States and add one small finishing touch to portray it as assembled in America.

MoboTrex has a long history of designing innovative and quality American-made traffic products.  Highlighted by our 133,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Austin, TX, MoboTrex is proud to manufacture all of its cabinets by your neighbors here in the United States.

MoboTrex has all the products and strategic partnerships required to prepare your city’s intersections for future traffic and mobility needs.  We engineer and manufacture Eagle brand NEMA cabinets, CALTRANS cabinets and ATC cabinets, traffic signals and accessories featuring our flagship Eagle Traffic Control Systems.

In addition to the quality of our products, MoboTrex is renowned for its ingenuity. Need a custom enclosure? We can design it. Have a concept sketched out? We can make it reality.

For more information on traffic cabinets please contact your local MoboTrex sales representative or visit our products page.

Missouri DOT (MoDOT) had a problem. Their intersections were getting more complex, but their traffic-control cabinet hardware wasn’t able to support their changing needs. The existing cabinets couldn’t support more than 16 output channels to control the intricate phasing of their intersections. The solution? A 32-channel 350 ATC cabinet.

For a recent project in St. Louis, MoboTrex supplied MoDOT with a 350 ATC cabinet to handle the complex intersection at MO30/Gravois Avenue and Hampton Avenue/Germania Street. This intersection includes pedestrian signals, left and right turn lanes, dedicated bike lanes, and nearby access to a bus depot and several commercial businesses.

The ATC cabinet standard allows for control of up to 32 output channels with a single conflict monitor, so it was an ideal choice for this intersection.

MoDOT let a project to upgrade the intersection and signalize not just the Hampton/Germania and Gravois crossing, but the access point to the bus depot as well. With all these approaches and flashing yellow arrows included, MoDOT engineers were quickly running out of output channels to handle all the phases they wanted to control. MoboTrex helped MoDOT develop specifications for a new ATC cabinet that met their user needs and could handle both sets of signals in a single cabinet. The ATC cabinet standard allows for control of up to 32 output channels with a single conflict monitor, so it was an ideal choice for this intersection.

This was MoDOT’s first experience with an ATC cabinet, and they were able to evaluate its effectiveness in a live environment. This also provided their technicians with training and real-world experience with the new cabinet architecture, as most MoDOT cabinets currently adhere to the NEMA TS2 standard.

The ATC cabinet standard was developed by a joint committee of NEMA, AASHTO, and ITE with a working group comprised of public and private sector members. The working group used a systems engineering process to collect feedback from the public sector members and then developed these needs into a national standard. User needs were prioritized, including technician and public safety, ease of maintenance, increasing value to end users, flexibility for innovative designs, and higher density components.

The new national ATC standard (ITE designation ATC 5301 v02) allows cabinet manufacturers more room for innovation than ever before. The result is a cabinet architecture that includes these key design features:

• High density components – more functionality in a smaller space
• Modular assemblies – simple to expand for more inputs or outputs when needed
• Fail-safer technology – improved safety for motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians
• Enhanced troubleshooting and diagnostic tools – find the problem and fix it quickly
• Improved technician safety – remove 120VAC wherever possible and protect maintenance personnel from shock hazards
• Increase monitoring functionality – control and monitor up to 32 output channels in a single cabinet
• Offer standard 48VDC output option

The ATC standard was intended to capture the best of all worlds, including features from the NEMA TS2, Caltrans, and ITS v1 standards and combining them with more modern technology to bring the traffic cabinet into the 21st century.

As intersections become more complex, the ATC cabinet is an innovative and valuable tool that will fit well in any traffic engineer’s toolbox for future projects.

Brent Katauskas, P.E., Channel Sales Director

(512) 521-3081

bkatauskas@MoboTrex.com

Everyone loves a classic. It’s the reason people still revere the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the ’63 Corvette and the original Star Wars trilogy. Classics are timeless. Familiar. Comfortable. But advances in modern technology can push these classics to the side in favor of new trends. Which means the classics have to be updated occasionally.

The Beatles’ original recordings were remastered to improve the sound fidelity. The Corvette still puts out 650 horsepower of American muscle, but includes improved safety and comfort features, such as hands-free calling, an advanced stereo system and automatic climate control. The classics you love are still relevant in 2017. That’s why the experts at MoboTrex designed the Brilliant P ATC cabinet.

The Brilliant P takes the familiar, classic form of a NEMA “P” cabinet, but upgrades the functionality with the advanced features of the new Advanced Transportation Controller Cabinet (ATCC) standard. The benefits include simplified troubleshooting, upgraded diagnostic tools and plenty of space for peripheral equipment. The Brilliant P also includes improved safety for technicians and motorists, easily expandable or replaceable modular subassemblies and the ability to handle even the most complicated intersection in a single cabinet.

When adding modern equipment like battery backup, video detection, networking devices and Connected Vehicle/Automated Vehicle communication to a NEMA TS1 or TS2 cabinet, it can easily become too crowded to service or create a need for additional cabinets in the area. So we innovated some expert ways to house everything you’ll need in the Brilliant P.

Better Use of Space

The power supply, auxiliary display unit, AC power strip and pull-out drawer are mounted under the shelves to save shelf space for your additional devices. The ATCC components are smaller than their predecessors and take up less space. The load switches are now double-density, to take up less space in the cabinet, and designed specifically for LED signals, to improve the efficiency of each device.

Troubleshooting and Upgrades

Troubleshooting and repairing the cabinet has been simplified with several new and upgraded diagnostic tools. The Auxiliary Display Unit (ADU) for the conflict monitor now includes an LCD display to share more information than ever before – voltage and current data for each channel, fault displays and event logs, and even a HELP button to point you directly to the problem causing the cabinet to go to flash. The new load switches have LED indicators to easily pinpoint issues with specific channels. The CMU programming is done on a memory device instead of a program board, eliminating the tedious task of soldering and cutting jumpers to set your permissives. Now it’s done through a simple, easy-to-use software program that allows you to save your work and create templates for use throughout your city.

Safety Features

The cabinet includes several new safety features, such as current monitoring, voltage monitoring, flasher monitoring and alarms, and a CMU override to prevent dual indications during flashing operation. This helps keep motorists safe during a conflict condition. We removed most of the 120VAC from the cabinet to keep technicians safe. All the remaining 120VAC is hidden behind a panel or Lexan cover to eliminate shock hazards in the cabinet.

A brand new feature is the ability to replace many of the assemblies, including the output assembly, while keeping the cabinet in flashing operation so the intersection won’t go dark and create an unsafe condition for drivers. We even have an option to upgrade the cabinet to a 48VDC version and send a 48VDC output to the signal heads while removing many potential shock hazards in the case of a downed pole or mast arm.

Intersection Efficiency

The Brilliant P packs a powerful punch for your intersection’s safety and efficiency. The new conflict monitor can handle up to 32 output channels to run even the most complicated intersection. The cabinet is easily expandable to handle up to 120 detector channels, and only requires adding the new assemblies and plugging into the convenient AC or DC power buses located in the cabinet. The subassemblies are modular and pluggable to make expansion or replacement simple and quick.

At MoboTrex, we call ourselves mobility and traffic experts for a reason. We’re always finding new ways to deliver innovative products that keep people safe, move traffic smoothly and protect the environment. We recognize that many agencies are interested in the new ATCC features, but are hesitant to move to the rack-mount cabinets that have made their way into the market recently. The Brilliant P is our solution. If you’re ready for an upgrade, but not interested in changing the look and layout of your typical cabinet, contact us today so we can help you upgrade your classic.

Brent Katauskas, P.E., Dealer Development Manager

(512) 521-3081

bkatauskas@MoboTrex.com