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GIS/ Mapping & Location Based Systems

May 15, 2013
Nodes - new stations for better city transport
Nodes, New Tools for Design and Operation of Urban Transport Interchanges is a three-year European research project, focusing on providing and demonstrating tools for better transport interchanges to support a more efficient urban transport system. Toulouse, Reading, Budapest, Rouen, Rome, Thessaloniki, Osnabrück, Coventry and the Dutch Railways will all implement new solutions for a new generation of interchanges which will contribute to better transport services and an improved experience for travellers.
May 14, 2013
Russia opts for Trimble’s alignment planning system
Trimble is to supply its Quantm alignment planning system to the Russian High-Speed Rail Authority to investigate alternatives for two high-speed rail lines. The technology will allow the Rail Authority to rapidly view a wide range of alternatives, considering the social, environmental and design constraints and present preferred options to stakeholders for public consultation during 2013. The Russian study is examining the feasibility of two 1,600 kilometre high-speed rail lines. The first line would conne
May 3, 2013
Road safety begins at the planning stage
The latest software from PTV Group enables users to include road safety during the early transport planning stage using specific accident data. The PTV Vissum Safety module combines transport planning with road safety, and is suitable for use by transport planners in cities, municipalities and states, for universities and research institutes and for consultancy firms that want to actively offer road safety services. PTV Vissum Safety enables transport planners to analyse collected accident data and to take
April 29, 2013
PTV launches first Shaping Transportation event
On 18 and 19 June 2013, world transportation experts will meet at Shaping Transportation in London, when German software and traffic consultants PTV Group extend the format of their traditional PTV Vision user group meeting. During the two days, speakers such as Dr Hans Jeekel, Rijkswaterstaat, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Netherlands, Sanjiv N Sahai, CEO of Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit Systems (DIMTS) and Allan Gooch who was responsible for transport planning during the 2012
April 26, 2013
TRL updates Transyt software
TRL Software’s off-line software package, Transyt 14.1, is widely used by consultancies and government organisations to design, model and study everything from individual isolated junctions to large and complex networks.TRL says Transyt is owes its success to its ability to quickly assess individual junction performance and produce optimum fixed-time coordinated traffic signal timings to reduce queues, delays and the economic cost of congestion. New product Transyt Online extends the software’s functionalit
April 26, 2013
ITS asset management matters
Maintenance of on-road ITS kit needs to become more sophisticated; while new technologies can deliver better road maintenance. David Crawford investigates both sides of the issue "Good information is key to effective ITS asset maintenance,” says Ian Routledge of the Ian Routledge Consultancy (IRC), whose Imtrac (Information Management for TRAffic Control) system is poised for European expansion. Developed as an ‘intelligent filing cabinet’ for storing information about on-road equipment, the online database
April 19, 2013
Rutland opts for Yotta DCL Horizons asset management software
Yotta DCL is currently working with the UK’s Rutland County Council using its Horizons visualised asset management software, highway condition and asset inventory surveys, and technical support. The Horizons web-based software provides Rutland with a comprehensive model of the County’s highway network, enabling the highways team to gain full visibility of all survey data and high-resolution video imagery for developing maintenance schemes and work programmes. The service covers the provision of Horizons sof
March 8, 2013
Further enforcement order for Sensys
Sensys America, US partner of Swedish supplier of enforcement systems, Sensys Traffic, has received an order worth US$630,000 for speed and red light enforcement to be supplied under a framework agreement to Washington DC. This is the second call-off order from the framework agreement signed in October 2012. Delivery is estimated to be made in the second quarter 2013. "This is a follow-up of the order we obtained in December 2012 further to the equipment being installed and approved by the end-customer in
February 28, 2013
Cloud-Based Collision Analysis
The UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has launched MAAPcloud, the new generation of its MAAP road traffic collision data software which it says provides a better fit with today’s technological environments, and offers additional capabilities. MAAPcloud’s design allows flexible deployment; police forces, local authorities and other agencies can share a system and reduce costs, creating opportunities for cross-border and regional collaboration and data sharing. The online environment provides authorise
January 25, 2013
TRL launches cloud-based collision analysis system
The UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has launched MAAPcloud, the new generation version of its MAAP road traffic collision data software which TRL has supplied in the UK and globally since the 1980s. TRL says this brand new version provides a better fit with today’s technological environments, and offers additional capabilities for the road safety professionals who use it. MAAPcloud has been designed to allow flexible deployment; police forces, local authorities and other road safety stakeholders ca