ITS International talks to Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the transport research and lobbying organisation, the RAC Foundation. It is through the eyes of an economist that Professor Stephen Glaister, emeritus professor of transport and infrastructure at Imperial College London and director of the RAC Foundation, views current and future transport problems. Having spent 30 years at the London School of Economics and another 10 at Imperial, the move to the RAC Foundation was a radical departure from
Lidar feels like a technology whose time has come – but why now? Adam Hill talks to manufacturers, vendors and system integrators in the sector to assess the state of play and to find out what comes next
Every road carries a unique narrative. Each pedestrian step, bicyclist pedal and motorist pump of the accelerator or brake shapes a story about how safe, convenient and livable the experience is for the users. Through cutting-edge Autoscope video-based AI technology, operational details of road journeys are captured and translated into compelling metrics and understandable visualisations. Image Sensing Systems (ISS) can provide data and analytics that help traffic engineers and city planners design streets that better accommodate all users.
