Visit the captivating city of Athens on 29 June – 03 July 2025 for the International Symposium “Navigating the Future of Traffic Management” a premier event bringing together managers, traffic engineers, practitioners, and researchers from around the globe. The symposium will serve as a dynamic platform to explore and discuss innovative practices, proven methods, and how technologies may assist agencies improving how they actively manage traffic on roads, freeways, motorways, and tollways.
In 2006, within a span of four months, two incidents of drivers entering the 16km-long Westpark Tollway in Houston, Texas resulted in horrific accidents that caused a number of fatalities. As a result, Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) began investigating technologies that could help detect vehicles entering the tollway in the wrong direction.
What would transport systems look like in space settlements? And what can that tell us about transport now on Earth? Dimitrios Milakis, of the Institute of Transport Research, looks for answers in the stars
New systems of software are coming together to form the technological backbone of a project that will apply practically to one corridor in Dallas, but influence travel across a wider area. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is the lead agency for an extensive Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) project in Dallas, covering an area stretching north east of downtown Dallas, 20 miles long by two miles wide. The corridor is defined loosely by the US-75 freeway and DART’s light rail ‘red line’. These are the theor