Emovis will operate the free-flow tolling on Ireland’s M50 up to March 2021 following an extension to its agreement with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). The toll services company Emovis says it has been collecting funds of over €1 billion for TII to invest back into infrastructures of Ireland following a 63% increase in traffic to 143,000 passages a day. In March, Emovis confirmed its toll interoperability cloud-based hub in Ireland cleared over 50 million transactions in 2017. The solution is
October 16, 2018
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8573 Emovis will operate the free-flow tolling on Ireland’s M50 up to March 2021 following an extension to its agreement with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
The toll services company Emovis says it has been collecting funds of over €1 billion for TII to invest back into infrastructures of Ireland following a 63% increase in traffic to 143,000 passages a day.
In %$Linker: 2Internal<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />4343240link-external MarchITS International article linkfalse/categories/charging-tolling/news/emovis-reach-record-number-of-toll-transactions-in-ireland-2017/falsefalse%>, Emovis confirmed its toll interoperability cloud-based hub in Ireland cleared over 50 million transactions in 2017. The solution is expected to allow drivers to travel across the whole country with one toll tag.
Over 650,000 toll transponders are in use in Ireland as of January 2018, the company adds.
A partnership between data and car-share providers has been formed in the US city of Seattle to help improve parking utilisation.
Data solutions company Populus will receive real-time GPS data from Lime’s free-floating car-share fleet, LimePod, which launched last month in the city.
The Populus platform will then deliver reports to the Seattle Department of Transportation in a bid to evaluate the use of curb space and develop parking strategies that will help reduce vehicle ownership.
Populus says its
Finnish company Noptel plans to highlight its laser distance sensors used for traffic control at the World Congress. It will particularly be focusing on its Speeder X1 laser radar, which determines vehicle speed as well as its height and length.
Mobility operator Transdev and bike-share company Mobike will offer ‘free floating’ bicycles to local authorities in France in a partnership to provide residents with a ‘clean’ last-mile solution.
Transdev says 70% of local authorities in France consider the development of ‘soft’ transportation modes as a priority in the transition to clean energy.
The companies aim to market the Mobike bicycles in more than ten authorities over the next year.
Richard Dujardin, general manager of Transdev France, says:
The International Program Committee and ITS Australia is calling for volunteers to review submitted scientific, technical and commercial papers for the 23rd ITS World Congress 2016 in Melbourne.
More information on the program topics and sub-themes can be found on the congress website.