ITS Europe has opened early bird registrations for this year’s congress taking place in Eindhoven from the 3-6 June.
Under the theme ‘Fulfilling ITS Promises’, the European Programme Committee is presenting seven topics. These include deploying new mobility services – from experiments to experience; a breath of fresh air; connected, cooperative and automated mobility; enhancing the efficiency of freight transport; enablers of digital infrastructure; transport network operations; and disruption start-ups &
March 20, 2019
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ITS Europe has opened early bird registrations for this year’s congress taking place in Eindhoven from the 3-6 June.
Under the theme ‘Fulfilling ITS Promises’, the European Programme Committee is presenting seven %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external topicsfalsehttps://2019.itsineurope.com/congress-topics/falsefalse%>. These include deploying new mobility services – from experiments to experience; a breath of fresh air; connected, cooperative and automated mobility; enhancing the efficiency of freight transport; enablers of digital infrastructure; transport network operations; and disruption start-ups & future workforce.
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Early bird rates apply until 12 April. Registration information is available on the %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external websitefalsehttps://2019.itsineurope.com/2019/03/19/building-up-to-an-exciting-programme/falsefalse%>.
As part of the Montréal World Congress 2017, conference organizers are planning to feature live demonstrations of ITS technologies. The city of Montréal will create a virtual test bed on the streets adjacent to the Convention Centre. This test bed will include an arterial loop circling the Centre and a section of a nearby limited access highway that will be equipped with DSRC roadside units integrated with local signal controllers to support demonstrations of connected vehicle technologies.
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German urban air taxi manufacturer Volocopter has signed a deal with Honeywell to jointly develop new navigation and automatic landing systems.
They will be used on Volocopter’s vertical take-off and landing aircraft - perhaps as early as this year, the companies suggest.
“A key goal of our collaboration is to fly a Honeywell inertial measurement-based attitude reference system solution in one of our Volocopters in 2019,” says Jan Hendrik Boelens, chief technology officer, Volocopter.
Urban air mob
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ChargePoint Services is to install its GeniePoint Network electric vehicle (EV) chargers across all Morrisons supermarkets in the UK.
ChargePoint says its 50-100kW rapid chargers will allow customers to refuel their EV in around 20 minutes.
The firm’s managing director Alex Bamberg says: “By offering another useful local service, customers are provided with choice for grocery, café and comfort stops, and green vehicle refuelling.”
The first chargers will be running by the end of this month and 100 are e