Cities in France are pressing ahead with ‘citizen cards’designed to give residents access to a wide range of services. The card is an NFC device that acts as a portal to areas such as transport services, libraries, sports facilities and residential parking schemes.
A global event which aims to shift cars off the road and encourage people onto alternative transport modes takes place on Sunday.
World Car-Free Day 2019 gives metropolitan areas from Bangkok, Thailand to Reykjavik, Iceland, the opportunity to stop traffic and open their streets to pedestrians and cyclists. While some cities, including Vancouver, Canada and Berlin, Germany, hold car-free days at other times of the year, the weekend will see a number of events.
In Washington, DC, it is hosted by Commut
Promoting open market conditions for ITS deployment remains a major part of Mexico’s recent infrastructure modernization program. Travis P Dunn, partner at D’Artagnan Consulting, looks at the progress so far. In the past six years, Mexico has embarked on an ambitious infrastructure modernization program, calling for the construction and improvement of more than 19,000km of road infrastructure and the deployment of advanced technologies that improve safety, efficiency, and convenience for road users. One of
