Spanish telecommunications provider Telefónica and US-headquartered smart parking solutions supplier Streetline have joined forces to offer telematics-enabled smart parking services that allow cities to optimise parking management, while reducing vehicle traffic. The companies have reached an agreement to jointly market M2M (machine to machine) products designed to target the growing smart parking market, initially in Europe and Latin America. The solution will be part of the Telefónica Smart City platform
In the UK, rail operator First ScotRail plans to install 140 smartcard validation machines across seventy of the 350 stations in Scotland, focusing on the Aberdeen, Stirling and Strathclyde areas. The technology was installed in twenty-seven stations at the end of 2012, and should be implemented in the remaining stations in the next three months. Building on a pilot scheme for annual season-ticket holders that has been running between Edinburgh and Glasgow on the line through Falkirk since 2011, the move wi
Technology start-up Unmanned Solutions is to deploy autonomous delivery robots in Sangam Digital Media City (DMC), an autonomous driving test bed South Korea’s capital Seoul.
The Korean Times says the four-wheeled electric vehicles will operate in the city for a year, carrying 200kg of goods on a flat tray.
Jung Young-Jae, a city official in charge of the start-up incubation project at Seoul Institute of Technology, says: “The robots will start with shipping supplies from freight trucks near the mai
The Inrix Off-Street Parking service is now available in the Mercedes-Benz E-Class in Europe and coming to the US this summer, a newly-integrated feature which drivers to easily find, compare and navigate to available off-street parking spaces using the COMAND infotainment system.
Inrix Off-Street Parking provides drivers with real-time parking information that includes routes to the closest garage locations, detailed rates, limitations and restrictions and real-time occupancy. It offers access to a comp
