Enforcement

Vehicle-ramming attacks by terrorists on pedestrians – often involving multiple fatalities - are sobering reminders of how cars and vans can be used for ill. But a recent court case in the UK highlights a sinister use of newer technology

Indra has been awarded a €75 million deal for work to switch a major US roadway to dynamic pricing.

Police in Estonia have been offering drivers caught speeding with a choice between taking a break from the road instead of paying a fine.

Roads in the Netherlands have become more dangerous over the last decade, according to one of the country’s leading road safety experts.

The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) in Australia has chosen Unisys to provide facial image processing technology for the state’s smart card driver licences.

Telephone company Cincinnati Bell is partnering with the Oregon District Business Association to install a smart city solution to support law enforcement safety initiatives. The partners will install cameras throughout the Oregon District - a neighbourhood in Dayton, Ohio - including its car parks and alleyways. Both parties will install fibre to provide free public Wi-Fi and engagement software to support local businesses. Public Wi-Fi will extend on 5th Street from Wayne Avenue to Patterson Boulev

Vision technology provider Axis Communications has set up a camera system for ATrain, which owns and operates rail services – including seven trains and one workshop - between Stockholm and Arlanda Airport. The Arlanda Express trains run on one of the few privately-operated railroad lines in Sweden. The company decided in 2015 to install a camera solution at train stations and depots to monitor flows of travellers, checking signs, elevators and escalators and making sure that the ticket machines are wor

Despite law changes, drivers’ bad habits have been creeping back in. TRL’s Dr Shaun Helman tells Adam Hill why using a phone at the wheel is just as distracting as driving after a few drinks esearch from as far back as 2002 (see box) suggests that driving while making a phone call – either hands-free or holding a handset to your ear – creates the same amount of distraction as being drunk behind the wheel. While it is notoriously hard to predict how alcohol will affect an individual (due to the speed of

TRL is calling for an update to UK and EU automotive legislation to allow police, insurers and road safety researchers access to event data recorder (EDR) information. EDR is the equivalent of a black box that records a range of data from safety systems fitted to the vehicle in the seconds before, during and after a collision. The data helps provide information on the actions taken before a crash – which TRL says will be vital in understanding what an autonomous vehicle or its safety driver were doing j