Location Based Systems

An autonomous shuttle is to take to the road as part of the UK GATEway Project (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) research into public acceptance of, and attitudes towards, driverless vehicles. In the latest phase of the GATEway Project a prototype shuttle will begin driverless navigation of a 2km route around the Greenwich Peninsula, using advanced sensors and state-of-the-art autonomy software to detect and avoid obstacles whilst carrying members of the public participating in the research stu

Toyota Motor Corporation and the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have agreed to work together on connected car technology, combining their knowledge and expertise in automotive and information and communication technology (ICT) research and development. Their aim is to address a range of issues, including traffic accidents, congestion and the delivery of new mobility services, to help realise a future worldwide Smart Mobility Society. A field trial is planned for 2018 to assess the feasi

Hitachi Automotive Systems and Clarion have developed a remote parking system that automatically performs parallel and perpendicular parking as well as garage parking and exit from outside the vehicle through remote control using smartphones.

Telematics provider Scope Technologies and French insurer Amaline Assurances, the direct insurance division of Groupama, are to collaborate to provide Renault’s electric car, ZOE, with an in-built Usage Based Insurance (UBI) solution for the French market. Scope Technologies’ adaptable software and data analytics will provide Renault’s R-Link multimedia system with comprehensive UBI technology to equip ZOE’s computer and app systems with a tailored UBI product. Scope’s technology facilitates the proces

Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) is to showcase its latest transportation and road management innovations at Traffex 2017 in Birmingham, 4-6 April. During the three-day event, Cubic will feature its next-generation traffic management platform, which is currently operating in the National Multimodal Connected Test Bed at the University of Melbourne. This connected transport living lab paves the way for connected and autonomous vehicles. Cubic will also demonstrate its driver enforcement platforms fo

A new report by Danish business analysis company Autintelligence, Cybersecurity in the connected car: technology, industry, and future examines the security implications of increasing connectivity and software complexity in connected and autonomous vehicles. According to the report, advanced connectivity, electronics and software are hallmarks of modern vehicles. A typical connected car contains up to 70 ECUs, and about 100 million lines of code. As vehicles expand in terms of technological complexity,

A Smart Mobility Consortium comprising the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), HKT, Huawei Technologies and Qualcomm Technologies is to work on cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technologies with the aim of developing a smart mobility system for Hong Kong. As one of the most ‘connected’ cities in the world and a global financial hub, Hong Kong is an ideal place to pioneer the implementation of smart mobility system and showcase for the improvement of road safety. Ten

Chicago-based transportation software company Demandtrans has formed a Smart City Strategic Partnership with Finnish mobility start-up Tuup, in a partnership that will integrate DemandTrans' on-demand mobility intelligence and optimisation with Tuup's advanced routing, booking and assignment platform. Tuup will deploy its Mobility-as-a Service (MaaS) platform to connect various forms of transport to customers via a single solution. MaaS sorts transport options from different providers and then handles ev

With the aim of reducing the cost of congestion, Oxfordshire County Council and Waze, the free, real-time crowd-sourced satellite navigation app, are teaming up to improve urban mobility. Following in the footsteps of Transport for London, Oxfordshire County Council is the second UK Connected Citizens Partner (CCP) with Waze. In a bid to speed up journey times and ease traffic hotspots, CCP is designed as a free, two-way data exchange that empowers municipalities to harness real-time driver insights to i

Transport Certification Australia (TCA), the national government administrator of the telematics and related intelligent technologies, has worked with Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) to implement a new road charging solution, which represents a further application of the National Telematics Framework. This new application leverages the use of certified telematics to monitor heavy vehicle road use, enabling road and transport agencies to determine road use for charging purposes. The application gi