Location Based Systems

Parkopedia, the world's largest parking service provider, announced today a global partnership to provide TomTom with premium parking content for its automotive customers. Commenting on the announcement, Parkopedia's CEO Eugene Tsyrklevich said "We have been working on parking matters with TomTom for a while now and are particularly happy to see our joint efforts come to light in this new market leading solutions for drivers and the automotive industry."

Karamba Security has launched autonomous security for connected and autonomous vehicles, which enables their electronic control units (ECUs) to protect themselves from hackers. This extension to the company’s Carwall ECU security platform enables automotive technology providers to achieve the goals set out in the US Department of Transportation's guidelines for the safe deployment of autonomous cars. Karamba Security’s autonomous security technology allows any car’s ECU to protect itself from this threa

Improvements in maximising the use of EU funding are needed to reduce disparities in infrastructure development between Central and Eastern Europe and the rest of the EU, MEPs say in an own-initiative report voted in the Transport and Tourism committee on Monday. EU member states and the European Commission should focus on completing the TEN-T corridors, bridging missing links, removing bottlenecks and improve connections between different modes of transport. To date, most of the transport infrastructure

Mercedes Benz has extended Inrix Off-Street Parking service to its Mercedes-Benz C-Class and S-Classes in Europe and the US, providing drivers with accurate real-time and dynamic parking information for garage location, number of spaces, detailed rates and current occupancy levels. Inrix Off-Street Parking includes more than 29 million confirmed spaces in over 90,000 accessible locations spanning 4,000 cities in more than 60 countries. The service only displays publicly accessible, non-restricted parking

Israeli company Autotalks is to supply its V2X chipset to auto parts supplier Denso for its global V2X platform for mass market projects. Designed to meet the latency requirements for safety applications, Autotalks' next generation devices embed a mobility optimised modem, support dual-antenna with optimal and flexible RX/TX diversity, perform line-rate message ECDSA verification of the entire link capacity and embed an ultra-low-latency V2X HSM. In addition, the device was designed for crypto-agility an

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and Florida Polytechnic University are to partner in a new transportation technology testing facility, SunTrax, to create a high-tech hub for the research, development and testing of emerging transportation technologies related to tolling, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and automated and connected vehicles. The initial phase of the project will focus on the construction of a toll testing facility expected to offer local and potentially national a

TomTom has announced the European debut of its Localisation Demonstrator, a new demonstration device that leverages its HD Map and RoadDNA technology to provide accurate and robust lane-level localisation of a vehicle.

French car maker Renault-Nissan Alliance and Microsoft have signed a global, multiyear agreement to partner on next-generation technologies to advance connected driving worldwide. The companies will work together to develop next-generation connected services for cars powered by Microsoft Azure

Location mapping specialist Here is to introduce new vehicle-sourced data services for the auto industry, enabling drivers to access this view of the road through four services that provide information on traffic conditions, potential road hazards, traffic signage and on-street parking.

The Open Source Application Development Portal (OSADP) web-based portal provides access to and supports the collaboration, development, and use of open-source ITS-related applications. The OSADP has added a number of new ITS-related applications that are available free to the public, including: Dynamic intermodal routing environment for control and telematics - analysis, modelling and simulation (DIRECTView-AMS) is a visualisation application designed to view the performance measures generated during si