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TransCore Facts
CORPORATE:
- TransCore operates as a unit of Roper Industries (NYSE: ROP). Roper Industries is a diversified growth company with an enterprise value of more than $6 billion, and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s S&P Mid-Cap 400, Fortune 1000, and Russell 1000 Indexes. Roper provides engineered products and solutions for global niche markets, including water, energy, radio frequency and research/medical applications. Additional information about Roper Industries is available on the company's website at www.roperind.com
- In 2008, Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked TransCore No. 98 out of the Top 500 Design Firms.
- TransCore has more than 31 million tags and 53,000 readers deployed worldwide in systems for electronic toll collection; traffic management; rail, truck, container, barge and intermodal tracking and monitoring; border control, airport ground transportation and parking; and secure vehicle access control.
- TransCore’s GlobalWave satellite communications has three ground control stations providing service to five continents. The GlobalWave network supports customers worldwide including more than 600 commercial fleets throughout North America, the U.S. Department of Defense, and powers TransCore’s 3sixty fleet management services. Today, TransCore’s trailer tracking and communications units have reached distribution milestones exceeding 174,000 satellite communications transceivers worldwide.
- In 2007, TransCore was once again selected by Inbound Logistics Magazine as one of the Top 100 Logistics providers.
- In October 2007, TransCore was awarded the 2007 International Customer Management Institute’s (ICMI) prestigious Global Call Center of the Year Award in the small-to-medium size category.
- Also in October 2007, The European Space Agency (ESA) selected TransCore, which provides satellite asset tracking on three continents through its GlobalWave technology, and Novacom Services, a subsidiary of Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), to lead the development of an asset tracking prototype that will provide continuous visibility of intermodal containers and eliminate the line-of-sight complication that hinders global tracking of containers while in transit.
- In May 2007 – TransCore, a primary supplier for Florida’s SunPass® electronic toll collection system, received the 2007 Transportation and Expressway Authority Membership of Florida (TEAMFL) Chairman’s Award for the most innovative transportation project of the year, designing and installing the tolling solution for the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority reversible express lanes. This project is the world’s first reversible lane, open road tolling system in the world.
- TransCore has:
- Installations in 46 countries
- More than 2,000 employees
- More than 31 million RFID tags and 53,000 readers worldwide in transportation applications
Market Specific -- TOLL:
- TransCore supports or services:
- More than 60 percent of all toll lanes in the United States
- 6,200 toll lanes installed worldwide
- 22 toll customer service centers
Market Specific -- LOGISTICS:
- In 1990, TransCore’s RFID technology was established as the standard for the Association of American Railroads and the China Ministry of Railways AEI (automatic equipment identification) asset tracking.
- Almost 100 percent of all rail cars in North America have two of TransCore’s Amtech RFID tags
- Operates North America’s largest freight matching network, which supports the movement of more than $40 billion worth of freight annually
- Load monitors in 1,200 truck stops nationwide
- Facilitates 3.5 million loads per month
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