Features

Does a MaaS ecosystem work best if it’s open or closed? A new project with Swedish regional transit agency Skånetrafiken might just answer that, write Boyd Cohen and Scott Shepard of Iomob

Covid-19 has turned what we thought we knew upside down…but the basics remain the same, says IBTTA

There’s a limit to experimenting for real with driverless cars - which is where virtual simulation comes in

Harnessing distributed acoustic sensing technology across urbanised city transport networks can deliver real advantages for traffic flow, says Stuart Large of Fotech Solutions

Street demonstrations at times create tricky balancing acts for public transportation providers - and the recent Black Lives Matter protests have also put a spotlight on the deeper problem of ‘infrastructural racism’…

Holistic solutions are required on air quality and inequality - and the ITS industry is involved

Do you want happier travellers? Then maybe it’s time to think about moving towards account-based ticketing

An index has revealed the most dangerous parts of the world for car crashes, with cities in Africa, the US, India and Russia particularly challenging – although the rest of us might head to Calgary in Canada.

French authorities are using artificial intelligence to track face covering compliance

So what have we found so far from life in lockdown? Not commuting has its benefits. Maybe more of us could work from home when technology allows. We all know how to Zoom now.

What else? The lack of road traffic has given us cleaner air to breathe when we do go out, while more of us seem to be taking to our bicycles.

Also, we know that what we've been doing across the world for the last few months is economically unsustainable - which is why restrictions are easing in many countries. 

Artificial intelligence may improve traffic in cities and keep location data private, but Here Technologies shows that it only takes four points of anonymous data to predict your identity.

Speed kills – which means cutting speed should cut collisions. But is it that simple?

Several pillars of Mobility as a Service – notably public transit, ride-share and micromobility – are under pressure as ridership plummets.

When you can’t meet customers face to face, it creates problems for all businesses. But Adam Hill finds that the control room tech sector has been adapting

A stretch of rural Georgia highway called The Ray is a particularly useful testbed for V2X technology. Panasonic’s Chris Armstrong tells Adam Hill what’s so special about it