Siemens Mobility's Mark Bodger discusses the growing use of PC-based systems for urban traffic control. Across the ITS sector, there is a common trend of taking traffic and travel management out of the hands of bespoke solutions, realising the use of common, open-source technologies and solutions and enjoying all the attendant economies of scale and ease of use which that implies.
In recent years, there has been a huge growth of interaction with a range of technical systems, such as touch screens when ordering food, buttons in an elevator or when entering pin codes at the grocery store, to list just a few.
