Location Based Systems

Intelematics Australia, the company behind Suna Traffic Channel, has embarked on its first international venture with the launch of the service in New Zealand to provide live traffic updates on Garmin Nüvi models as well as an in-app purchase on the Magellan RoadMate AU and NZ App for iPhone. “SUNA is now providing up-to-the-minute- information on traffic congestion and road incidents directly to compatible navigation devices to motorists in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch,” said Adam Game, CCEO, Inte

Today, the euroFOT consortium published the findings of a four-year study focused on the impact of driver assistance systems in the Europe. The €22 million (US$27.5 million) European Field Operational Test (euroFOT) project which began in June 2008 and involved 28 companies and organisations, was led by Aria Etemad from Ford’s European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany. The study looked at existing technologies and their potential to both enhance safety and reduce environmental impact. euroFOT also reveale

Video detection specialist Traficon has been awarded a contract to provide video image processors for traffic monitoring inside the Södra Länken and Norra Länken tunnels in Stockholm, Sweden. The company will provide some 763 of its VIP-T modules designed for automatic incident detection and traffic data analysis. 22 VIP-T video image processing modules have already been installed in the Södra Länken tunnel. In cooperation with traffic specialists Swarco Sweden and ISG Systems AB Sweden, Traficon will insta

According to a new report from Pike Research, ITS will see increased investment in coming years even as government budgets are tightening, because smart transport is seen as a way to maximise existing transportation systems without making major new capital investments. The company forecasts that global investment in smart transportation systems will total US$13.1 billion between 2011 and 2017. “Most of this investment will be in intelligent traffic management systems, as this is the sector with the broadest

Cofiroute USA, which introduced toll road automation on the 91 Express Lanes in Orange County, California, has installed a fully integrated back office system as part of a five year US$38.5 million contract awarded earlier this year. The system provides for transponder tracking, accounting, a web-based consumer interface and dynamic pricing capabilities. The company worked with its software partner TollPlus to meet the specific requirements of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). This include

The Co-operative Insurance company in the UK says that new data shows that the introduction of telematics technology is leading to better driving behaviour from Britain's young road users. Intelligence gathered from the company’s 'smartbox' scheme shows that 35% are consistently showing 'excellent' driving while less than 5% demonstrate 'poor' driving habits. The Young Driver scheme, launched just over a year ago, measures driving behaviours including speed, braking and cornering. It then scores these from

Meier Express, with headquarters in Bern, Switzerland, has opted for SmarTour from PTV for managing its fleet of vehicles. The transport company, which offers logistical transport services all over Europe, uses this high-end planning software to visualise complex transport processes, enable cooperative planning within the team of schedulers and joint scheduling of different types of transport in one single system.

A free public meeting and webinar to provide an update on the Connected Vehicle Safety and Policy Programme is being organised by the US DoT’s ITS Joint Program Office (ITS JPO). It will provide an overview of the entire research programme, including vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), safety pilot, safety policy, and human factors. There will also be a session on commercial vehicles designed to solicit input on US DoT's research plans for related commercial vehicle applications for s

A consortium led by Prodata Mobility Systems has won a US$147 million contract to equip the buses and the trams of the Belgian transport company Vlaamse Vervoersmaatschappij De Lijn with an onboard computer and validators for the transport company’s new Mobib chip card.

The Netherland’s city of Helmond has decided to continue the cooperative mobility services piloted in the successful European Union co-funded Urban Freight Energy Efficiency Pilot (Freilot) project. Based on the positive results of the pilot, the partners involved (the Helmond Fire Brigade, the Municipality, Van den Broek Logistics and Imtech/Peek) are in talks to work out the details of a commercial agreement. These talks mark the end phase of Freilot, and a beginning for the commercial operation of cooper