At any conference or exhibition, it tends to be the ad libs and asides, the departures from the scripted or official lines, which are the most telling. In mid-February, ITS-UK's Road User Charging Interest Group met in London. The event was no exception to that statement. Keith Mortimer, the Group's chairman, and his colleagues put together one of the better programmes on charging and tolling that I've seen in recent years. Sadly, however, the very positive presentations on deployments and technological pro
Saving time and money is the big news at the Vaisala booth. In particular with its latest generation IRWIS remote weather station. Output from its latest remote, non-intrusive grip value sensors can be used without human interpretation to automatically send an alert to the traffic centre when a trigger value is reached.
According to the company’s marketing manager Jon Tarleton, the solution is well suited to future ITS solutions.
This not only ensures a faster response by the authorities to deteriora
Elon Musk has called him a ‘sanctimonious idiot’ but public transit expert Jarrett Walker tells Andrew Stone that more data and smarter cars aren't the answer to mass mobility...
