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UX: No-one gets left behind
As transportation agencies prepare for a digital evolution, they need to be thinking about more than just transport to make sure users can all be on the journey too, suggests RideFlag Technologies…
March 17, 2025
Walk | Don’t Walk – actually, just Don’t Walk
In 1925 a traffic ordinance was introduced in Los Angeles. The 100-year anniversary is significant because, transportation historian Peter Norton suggests, the law in effect set the blueprint for car-dependency across the US. Adam Hill asks him how…
March 14, 2025
“Gas tax hasn't gone up since 1993: that's where tolling can come in”
IBTTA president James Hofmann talks to Adam Hill about new beginnings plus the need for tolling to get the user experience right, streamlining digital experiences - and what to expect from the IBTTA Technology Summit in Dallas
March 11, 2025
Smoother running on Florida’s I-4
The Sunshine State is pioneering new implementations of V2X tech designed to smooth traffic flows and save lives. Andrew Stone shares the story so far…
March 8, 2025
Your values are your values: how do you want to be seen?
Evidence suggests that firms – including ITS firms - which embrace diversity might do better at the one thing they are created to do: make money
March 7, 2025
Invisible barriers: how urban transport fails women – and how we can solve it
Gender equality should be a reality in our cities, not just an aspiration
March 6, 2025
Nokia builds comms network for the smart, super-connected highway
The challenges are clear, but operators are embracing digitalisation and automation as they work to transform the highway landscape
March 4, 2025
Women in ITS: "You can’t be what you can’t see"
Bias – unconscious or otherwise – is a major problem when it comes to ensuring that ITS businesses reflect the diversity of the talent pool available to them. But there are practical solutions to challenges which have made the playing field uneven…
March 3, 2025
What's on at the IBTTA Technology Summit 2025?
Data, resilience, cybersecurity and RUC will be among key discussion topics
February 4, 2025
Utah Department of Transportation: How we’re using traffic analytics software
Our use of Iteris ClearGuide lets our traffic operations engineers interpret critical probe traffic data without the need for statisticians and software developers
February 4, 2025
Nervous about AV travel? You’ll get the Gist
Help is on the way for those anxious folk who will accept rides from automated vehicles but may feel uncomfortable doing so, reports David Arminas
January 30, 2025
Abu Dhabi embraces 'diversity of choice'
The Integrated Transport Centre in Abu Dhabi has big plans. Adam Hill hears why choices in the Middle Eastern emirate's mobility ecosystem are crucial when it comes to economic development
January 27, 2025
Traffic management is increasingly image conscious
At the Vision show in Stuttgart, Germany, a wide variety of traffic-related solutions were on display. Adam Hill takes the temperature of the industry…
January 23, 2025
Here’s why WiM is value for money
Weigh in Motion systems are not new. What is new is their ability to collect more data and – importantly – more accurate data about axle loading and vehicle weight. Despite the obvious benefits, including safer highways and possibility of automated legal weight enforcement, obstacles remain for faster uptake. David Arminas reports on the manufacturers’ perspective…
January 21, 2025
C-V2X: the final countdown
It’s finally here: the Federal Communications Commission has cleared the way to mass deployment of C-V2X in a bid to put a much-needed brake on the US’s road crash stats