Air Quality & Weather Systems

TomTom, via its joint venture partner AutoNavi Holdings, has announce a seven year agreement with Qoros Auto, an international automotive corporation. The partners will deliver HD Traffic, marking the first real time traffic customer for the newly expanded joint venture. In 2013 the first cars, aimed at young metropolitan users, will hit the streets in China equipped with HD Traffic, providing drivers with accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic information available.

Navteq’s business strategy is focusing on more more detail, greater accuracy and added value. Location data provider Navteq has done much to enhance its service offer in recent months, across consumer, commercial and government markets worldwide, and the company reports more to come. Interior destination maps, the most recent addition to Navteq’s pedestrian navigation portfolio, are now being considered for complex transport interchanges to give guidance to transferring passengers, particularly those with m

David Crawford admires TomTom’s flying start to 2012. Gobal location and navigation equipment supplier TomTom rang in 2012 with two strategically important announcements. First was the signing of a deal with Korean electronics giant Samsung, representing an important consolidation of its position in the consumer market. Under this agreement, TomTom maps and location content will power the Samsung Wave3 smartphone, launched in autumn 2011. TomTom data will support navigation and search-and-find applications

Will the relentless growth of Google lead to it becoming the ultimate provider of travel information services? Huw Williams investigates Google’s strategy and David Crawford discovers what two principal rivals are doing to keep pace. In the first weeks of 2012 one company staked two divergent claims on the future of transport. One is the science fiction of only a decade ago, turned into reality: the driverless car. The other seems more prosaic, yet in its own way is just as significant a marker of the futur

MapQuest, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL, has announced that it has integrated traffic and road condition cameras into its maps and directions.

Slalom Consulting's NYC Station Finder has won the special Large Organisation Award in the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's App Quest Challenge.

A new traffic management solution is attempting to bridge the gap in information available on freeways and arterial roadways. Andrew Bardin Williams reports. Agencies responsible for national networks of roads around the world have the ability to measure, analyse and disseminate accurate travel information to drivers. Millions of dollars go into data collection infrastructure to collect traffic congestion and travel time information on major freeways or highways. For example, a driver on the I-210 in the Lo

Top Vision has announced it has implemented and installed a variable message sign (VMS) in the central Avenue of Athens.

In South Korea's Seoul city, the city government has developed a smartphone application, called Seoul's Fast Ways, to show road conditions to users in real time.

Wavetronix has announced that its SmartSensor HD has been selected as the traffic detection device for a project in Incheon City, South Korea.