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September 4, 2020
How Jenoptik ANPR technology helps limit the spread of Covid-19
The ongoing spread of Covid-19 poses serious challenges to authorities around the world. Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology has proved to be an effective tool to support authorities in their duties to control borders and prevent the entry of infected persons.
September 4, 2020
IRD’s TACS screens vehicles for unsafe tyres
IRD’s Tire Anomaly and Classification System (TACS) is an innovative technology that identifies potentially dangerous tyre anomalies before accidents occur. Tyre anomalies are conditions such as underinflated, flat, missing or mismatched tyres. These tyre problems can result in vehicle imbalance, reduced maneuverability, improper load distribution, reduced braking performance, poor fuel economy, and reduced tyre life. Pavement damage can also result from increased loads on tyres when adjacent tyres are flat or mismatched in size.
September 4, 2020
Econolite raises the innovation bar by introducing Centracs Mobility
Econolite introduces Centracs Mobility, a highly flexible cloud-based software solution platform, designed to provide added value and actionable information, augmenting the traffic management software toolset. The new software solution combines all the proven capabilities of Centracs Advanced Transportation Management System (ATMS) currently deployed in over 325 agencies in North America, with the cloud-based data analytics of signal performance measures (SPM), signal timing optimisation, and real-time signal control.
September 4, 2020
Video-as-a-Sensor technology for intelligent infrastructure solutions from Bosch
As street and sidewalk congestion and connected vehicle use increases, city planners and traffic engineers face new issues. The challenge to choose technology solutions that can assist today and adapt as autonomous vehicles take to the road is quite complex, as Bosch points out.
September 4, 2020
McCain’s cloud-based solution, Swarco MyCity, is the answer
There are more than 270 million vehicles currently registered in the United States. In a nation of 327 million people, it’s an astounding statistic. Reduce the population number by children and those who don’t drive, and that’s more than one vehicle for every qualified driver in the country.
September 4, 2020
RTMS Echo unlocks powerful data
Image Sensing Systems has announced that the new RTMS Echo unlocks the power of per-vehicle data by providing extremely accurate, eye-opening data, which helps gain new insights, optimise decisions and realise results. Data is the key source to fuelling new insights and the results from those insights impact agency core directives.
September 4, 2020
No change for AECOM’s tolling clients with Shimmick
AECOM has transferred the part of its business that operates and manages customer service centres and cash collection operations of toll roads to its affiliate, Shimmick. The team’s mission has always been to operate high-quality infrastructure as a partner of choice and this mission won’t change. Shimmick’s O&M team is the same team clients have been working with for over 25 years, with the same operations and management expertise in toll systems, contact and walk-in centres and cash lane collections.
September 4, 2020
ITS World Congress takes long road to LA
As the epicentre of the movie industry, Los Angeles has seen a few unexpected plot turns in its time.