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December 15, 2022
Editor's comment: 'Workforce must see leaders who look like themselves'
Diversity is vital for the future of transportation businesses everywhere, says Adam Hill
December 15, 2022
Multimodal simulation helps to improve the airport experience
The vision of the IMHOTEP project is a multimodal European transport system, where different modes of travel are seamlessly integrated to give passengers a great door-to-gate and gate-to-door experience. Marcel Sala, scientific researcher at Aimsun, explains how this works at airports
December 7, 2022
WTS International: Attract, Connect, Sustain, Advance
WTS International exists to connect transportation professionals, and to help prepare the next generation of the mobility workforce. But it takes everyone to create change, says Lindsay Shelton-Gross
December 6, 2022
Hayden AI’s Renee Autumn Ray: ‘It’s about problem solving’
Renee Autumn Ray is senior director of global strategy for Hayden AI. She has also admitted to impostor syndrome, has no time for people who scorn the public sector and offers one simple rule about social media. Adam Hill meets her to find out what that is, among other things
December 2, 2022
ITS Australia Global Summit 2023: super-sized
Four-day Global Summit will be held on 28-31 August, 2023 in Melbourne: accelerating smarter, safer, sustainable transport is focus of next year's expanded event for whole ITS community
November 23, 2022
US holiday season: don’t drive - ride!
Lyft credits are being provided in four US states to discourage seasonal drunk driving
November 22, 2022
Pollution foiled by foliage
Living walls provide an innovative solution for reducing air pollution and improving air quality along congested urban highways. Richard Sabin, managing director of Biotecture, explains how
November 15, 2022
Asecap: get ready to rethink everything you know
How can we make our infrastructure ready for new sustainability challenges? What kind of investments are needed? And who will finance them? Tolling association Asecap has some thoughts. Geoff Hadwick reports from Lisbon
November 11, 2022
Keeping cool in LA
As the earth’s temperatures rise, cities are set to become hotter. A project in Los Angeles may point the way to keeping cool while improving access to transit services in an uncertain future
November 7, 2022
Charlotte, NC: looks like we’re walking
Charlotte is committing to ambitious Vision Zero targets and has a plan for modal shift which emphasises active travel in the North Carolinian city
November 1, 2022
Better liveability through more micromobility
Shared and micromobility offer new options, weaning urbanites off their cars, stitching existing mass transit combinations together. Andrew Stone looks at a report on transforming our cities
October 28, 2022
Cannabis and cars don’t mix
Increased – legal – cannabis use has created increased – illegal – use by drivers. Adam Hill looks at a new report which advises State Highway Safety Offices on tackling the issue
October 26, 2022
Digital twins help city space race
As the world becomes more urbanised, there is a need to monitor the likely effects this will have on the way we live, says Jeroen Borst of TNO, the Dutch organisation for applied scientific research
October 25, 2022
UITP highlights mass transit changes
Increasingly, public transport passengers will no longer need to carry a dedicated smartcard ticket to travel, as technology enables virtually any type of contactless payment system to take over the role.
October 20, 2022
Cost Benefit: a roundabout way of lighting
One of Europe’s first smart lighting systems specifically for roundabouts is operating in Hungary and making big energy savings for local government, explains Miklós Muranyi of NIF