Flir Traficon Academy is organising several informative webinars for November, to provide participants with more about keeping traffic flowing. The vehicle and bicycle presence detector on 5 November at 7:00am, 1:30pm and 6:30pm will discuss the Flir ThermiCam/TrafiSense integrated thermal camera and detector that can be used for vehicle and bike detection, which uses thermal energy emitted from vehicles and bicyclists to detect their presence
October 30, 2015
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6778 Flir 5574 Traficon Academy is organising several informative webinars for November, to provide participants with more about keeping traffic flowing.
The vehicle and bicycle presence detector on 5 November at %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal7:00amFLIR 7:00amfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71788falsefalse%>, %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal1:30pmFLIR 1:30PMfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71789falsefalse%> and %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal6:30pmFLIR 6:30pmfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71790falsefalse%> will discuss the Flir ThermiCam/TrafiSense integrated thermal camera and detector that can be used for vehicle and bike detection, which uses thermal energy emitted from vehicles and bicyclists to detect their presence
On 12 November at %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal7:00amFLIR 7:00am 12th Novemberfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71795falsefalse%>, %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal1:30pmFLIR 1.30pm 12th Novemberfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71796falsefalse%> and %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkInternal6:30pmFLIR 6:30pm 12th Novemberfalsehttp://http//www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71797falsefalse%>, the pedestrian presence detector webinar will discuss how the Flir ThermiCam/TrafiSense has the feature to detect pedestrian presence, even when there is poor lighting, darkness and difficult weather conditions.
The seminar on 26 November takes place at %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal7:00amFlir 7:00am 26th Novemberfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71799falsefalse%>, %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal1:30pmFlir 1:30pm 26th Novemberfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71801falsefalse%> and %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternal6:30pmFlir 6:30pm 26th Novemberfalsehttp://www.flir.co.uk/traffic/display/?id=71802falsefalse%> and looks at how the Flir Traffic Data Collector is used for traffic data collection.
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Archives of sessions at the 2012 ITS America Annual Meeting and 2011 World Congress on-demand archives of sessions are now available. They offer many hours of recorded content for reference to sessions attended and those that you just didn’t get a chance to hear. Click on http://www.itsa.org/events/meeting-archives to view the full set of available recordings and instructions about how to download and purchase. Starting at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Nashville, ITS America will offer these audio synch-to-s
To ensure that ITS stakeholders and end users maintain an awareness of the European and international ITS standardisation that plays a key role developing specifications and norms for future services and products, Ertico-ITS Europe has launched its ITS standardisation newsletter which provides news, background information and discussions about ITS standardisation topics. Published every 3 months, it includes stakeholder interviews to provide first-hand information and an event listing.
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NTSB released a report which says the Volvo XC60’s autonomous system software classified the pedestrian as an unknown object and determined that an emergency braking manoeuvre was needed to mitigate the collision.
Uber confirmed that emergency braking manoeuvres must be carried out manually and the system is not designed to alert the driver.
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