telent and Mott MacDonald help people 2 travel with ease in the West Midlands

telent plc, a leading provider of technology services, and the multi-disciplinary consultancy Mott MacDonald, today announced the launch of a redesigned, easy-to-use Help2Travel website for the travelling public in the West Midlands area. The redesigned website - www.help2travel.co.uk - provides the public with a comprehensive view of traffic and travel in the West Midlands region, which is drawn from the West Midlands Local Authority Traffic & Travel System - MATTISSE. Visitors to the website are able to view up-to-the-minute travel news on roadworks and incidents on the region's roads on one simple map, as well as real-time train and bus information, car parking, cycling and air quality information. The redesigned website was developed by the telent and Mott MacDonald Joint Venture, M3, who are responsible for the MATTISSE system as well as the Help2Travel website."MATTISSE uses innovative and flexible communications network interfaces to provide a wealth of travel information." said Peter Eccleson, General Manager of the Roads and Highways Division at telent. "Through the Help2Travel website, the information MATTISSE provides is easily accessible to the travelling public for up-to-the-minute travel information."Changes to the website include easier navigation tools and precise mapping, resulting in a more user-friendly interface.The MATTISSE service is a Real-Time Information System, which successfully manages traffic and travel information from eight UK regional authorities across the Midlands. It enables up to the minute traffic information to be exchanged more easily between Traffic Managers and travel information delivered more effectively to the general public, including via the Help2Travel website and mobile devices.The Help2Travel website can be found at www.help2travel.co.uk. About telent plc:telent plc supplies a broad range of communications support services to telecommunications operators, as well as to large enterprises and government agencies in the UK and Germany, leveraging its accumulated knowledge of customers' networks, its expert field force, its scale and reputation for quality.The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TLNT. Additional information about telent plc can be found at www.telent.comAbout Mott MacDonald:Mott MacDonald's US$1.5 billion employee-owned business spans 140 countries with over 11 000 staff working in all sectors from transport, energy, buildings, water and the environment to health and education, industry and communications.Mott MacDonald's breadth of skills, sectors, services and global reach makes it one of the world's top players in delivering management, engineering and development solutions for public and private sector customers. For more information about Mott MacDonald go to www.mottmac.com

Published 13th September 2007