How it all began?

In the beginning of 2007 we have created ZIR Group, which concentrated entities responsible for the execution of the consecutive stages of designing and constructing of traffic lights.

It enabled us to establish absolute control and improved the coordination of the entire manufacturing process – from the conceptual analysis, through production and the delivery of traffic safety devices, to the construction and maintenance of traffic lights.

The companies, the Group is composed of, are involved in the process of traffic lights come into being. Zakład Inzynierii Ruchu (Traffic Engineering Company) is responsible for building, equipping and maintaining traffic lights, ZIR – Systemy Sterowania Ruchem (ZIR Traffic Management Systems) is accountable for delivery and programing of traffic controller, while ZIR Systemy Projektowe (ZIR Design Systems) deals with designing both simple junctions as well as complex traffic actuated traffic lights.

Due to the division of responsibilities, our customers have access to the best experts at every stage of the designing and manufacturing of traffic lights, and the ready made product is elaborated on in minute detail and customized to the requirements of a given order.

Zaklad Inzynierii Ruchu (Traffic Engineering Company)

The company was founded in 1989 in Bytom. Since the beginning we it has specialized in the designing, manufacturing and maintenance of traffic lights. We have proved our expertise on densely populated Silesia region and  extended our activity on the entire national market.

Nowadays, thanks to the dynamic increase of sales, we set new world trends in the field of traffic engineering. Our products  win awards and distinctions in many national and international trade fairs, receiving  recognition from our customers from Germany, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain or even Morocco and United Arab Emirates.

Thanks to the perfect design, the use of high quality materials and unprecedented durability, 65-70% of our signal heads is exported.

In its history the company has made it possible to built over 200 fully actuated  traffic lights. Apart from construction and manufacturing the company also provides services like maintenance and monitoring of the traffic lights. Maintenance is extended over 250 traffic lights located both within larger Silesian cities as well as on the urban areas and on the National Road number 1.

ZIR Systemy Sterowania Ruchem (Traffic Management Systems)

ZIR – Systemy Sterowania Ruchem (Traffic Management Systems) R.Balcer and company was founded in 1998. It’s area of expertise covers all the issues related to traffic controllers, remote communication and video detection.

The engineers and programmers seek the most efficient solutions for usual, isolated junctions (from 3 to 48 signalling groups), as well as more complicated traffic systems.

In 1997 in cooperation with the Danish company Falco Traffic ( currently SWARCO Technology) the company started the production of modern vehicle actuated controllers ASR-200xPL, which are the Polish equivalent of the models popularized in Europe by the SWARCO company. These products are constantly modernized to keep up with competition and to utilize various ways of vehicle detection (induction loops, dual state detectors, video detection).  Their flexibility allows for the solutions suitable for the size and specification of each intersection.

ZIR SSR in cooperation with The Department of Transport IT Systems and The Transport Department of Silesian Technical University created ZIR-WD, modern video detection cameras that enable precise measuring of speed and density of traffic and it’s classification based on the vehicle characteristics.

ZIR Systemy Projektowe (Design Systems)

ZIR Systemy Projektowe specializes in designing modern, vehicle actuated traffic lights, roads and road signs placement layout. Our designers have made over 500 designs of actuated traffic lights. Apart from that ZIR Systemy Projektowe made over 150 analyses and traffic simulations, which have been used in many projects. Thanks our seasoned team the solutions we apply work perfectly well, not only in case of large junctions and complex intersections, but also at roundabouts, pedestrian crossings, parking and other traffic engineering facilities.

Thanks to the modern software tools like AutoCad, VisSim, Crossig we may quickly come up with few variants and after an analysis choose the final optimal solution. The choice of the variant of traffic control is a well thought out, which allows for the dynamic traffic lights work that makes the traffic flow smoother.

The solutions applied by us to a wide extent are based on the Swedish LHOVRA control strategy that acknowledges the priorities for various groups of vehicles, improves road safety.

Our customers are most often municipalities, magistrates, road authorities, General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA), and numerous private investors, among others Carrefour, Tesco, Media Markt, Statoil and Nestle.