A partnership between UK payment and ticketing solutions provider Parkeon and Cloud Amber is about to deliver real time passenger information (RTPI) in advance of travel that the companies say is redefining the effectiveness of RTPI systems.
The system developed by Parkeon and Cloud Amber enables over-the-air location tracking of buses, the deep integration with urban traffic management control (UTMC) data and two-way driver messaging. This bus-centric view means that operators are better able to manage
For major road works schemes, necessary lane closures are timed to minimise congestion, most frequently at night and on weekends when traffic is at its lightest. As a result, rigid timetables are used in planning, programming and implementing work. In the UK, to calculate the expected traffic demand through roads works, historic profiles from the loop-based MIDAS (Motorway Incident Detection Automatic Signalling) system were used. These provided a valuable indicator of anticipated traffic behaviour but were
An IBEC working group session at ITS World Congress in Vienna in October was presented with an example of a very cost-effective means for reducing traffic travel time. There is no doubt that adaptive real-time traffic control is a very cost-effective ITS application”, Dr Ronald van Katwijk told an IBEC (International Benefits, Evaluation & Costs) working group session at the 2012 ITS World Congress in Vienna. The senior consultant with Netherlands consultant TNO and TrafficQuest, the Dutch Centre for Expert
An IBEC working group session at ITS World Congress in Vienna in October was presented with an example of a very cost-effective means for reducing traffic travel time. There is no doubt that adaptive real-time traffic control is a very cost-effective ITS application”, Dr Ronald van Katwijk told an IBEC (International Benefits, Evaluation & Costs) working group session at the 2012 ITS World Congress in Vienna. The senior consultant with Netherlands consultant TNO and TrafficQuest, the Dutch Centre for Expert
