Air Quality & Weather Systems

Vaisala Road Weather Navigator 2.0 is the latest innovation that the company believes will change the way ITS professionals responsible for road weather look at weather. It is hosted by Vaisala, taking the hassle out of managing a data collection network. The company says one look at Navigator reveals how easy it is to look at the current conditions, historical weather, and, most importantly, predicted conditions over the next few hours.

Damian Black, CEO and founder of SQLstream Inc, writes about relational stream processing for real-time intelligent transport systems Almost unnoticed there is a revolution going on in Internet data which is different from anything seen before. It is taking place in sensor data, which research organisation Gartner predicts in 2012 will exceed 20 per cent of all non-video Internet traffic.

David Crawford sees lively prospects for Finnish innovation

Despite its name, the EU's forthcoming SUNSET project could represent a new beginning for travel information services. Here, Susan Grant-Muller and Frances Hodgson from the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds detail a project which is intended to exert a greater influence on network users' travel habits

Austria's national road operator, ASFINAG, has launched the TMCplus traveller information service which is unusual in that it offers encrypted-level services to all users free of charge. Martin Müllner writes

This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was characterised by consumer telematics solutions, writes Dave McNamara

Arguably the 'face' of ITS, variable message signs are far from being a passing solution

David Crawford surveys European trends in environmental monitoring and enforcement

Daktronics will provide its Vanguard Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) under a new US$25.6 million contract.