TomTom City, a new traffic portal launched by TomTom, provides live traffic and travel information, including real time traffic status, delay hotspots and road event reporter, for consumers and traffic management experts.
TomTom City, which can be found at http://city.tomtom.com, is accessible from any internet enabled computer, tablet or smartphone and provides freely accessible content showing live traffic status and incidents and other driver-based information in cities. This will enable consumers to
July 7, 2016
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1692 TomTom City, a new traffic portal launched by TomTom, provides live traffic and travel information, including real time traffic status, delay hotspots and road event reporter, for consumers and traffic management experts.
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Enforcement systems specialist Agendum has rebranded to Parkius as it prepares to expand its services to include smart city solutions.
Agendum says users of its parking solution can then use smart data services for monitoring and predicting traffic and parking intensity or inspect traffic signs, street furniture or other objects in the public space.
The company’s new website is www.parkius.io
During Hurricane Harvey the number of users accessing Houston TransStar’s website, www.houstontranstar.org, for updates on travel conditions peaked at more than three million unique visitors, more than a million individuals accessing the site on 27 August alone.
US companies Kritek and Skyline Products have formed a strategic partnership which will see Kritek’s Klover software-as-a-service (SaaS) smart transportation platform integrated with Skyline’s NTCIP-compliant dynamic message signs, with the aim of offering new turnkey smart city solutions. Klover-enabled signs are securely accessible from the cloud, so they can be easily integrated into Klover’s workflows and managed from anywhere at any time.
We speak to trend researcher Sven Gábor Jánszky, head of the renowned 2b AHEAD think tank in Leipzig, on the world view of Generation Y, the mobility-related preferences of digital citizens and their disruptive effects on the transport systems of the future.