Tasks that should always be undertaken using the protection of a truck or trailer-mounted attenuator, but frequently aren't. That's why Dutch company Trafiq attracted so much international attention last year when it developed and launched the Mobile Automatic Roadblock System (MARS). Not only does the system provide complete safety for highway workers, it automates the entire process. And on top of that, because of the speed at which it deploys and collects cones, MARS provides substantial cost savings com
The ability to bundle together travel data from several discrete sources and fuse it to give a more comprehensive overview of events to stakeholders is the key aim of Viajeo, which is conducting trials in several cities around the world. Here, Ertico's Yanying Li writes about the project in more detail
Safer Place is showing its new Safe Traffic Platform, a single, video-based enforcement platform that covers a range of high-risk traffic violations. At its stand in the Elicium area of the RAI, the company will be explaining how it brings together several types of smart city infrastructures such as cameras, IT and 4G. The company says that the Safe Traffic Platform delivers a range of applications that can be used on PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones and generates up to 15 times more tickets per office
Laura Chace, new boss of ITS America, is fully behind the MobilityXX initiative, which promotes the role of women in transportation. She tells Adam Hill why the ’10 by 10’ target is so important…
