Officers working as part of the US Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CSVA) Operation Safe Driver pulled over 74,765 during the weeklong enforcement blitz in October, nearly three times the 2012 figure, the group said.
Of those, 29,048 drivers were in trucks or buses, while the rest were in passenger vehicles, CVSA said in a statement on 9 January.
Car drivers were cited or warned for speeding 56 per cent of the time they were pulled over during the enforcement effort, compared with just 7.3 per ce
US Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are using smart technology to warn civil engineers when something is wrong with the infrastructure, says the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Association (AASHTO). Sensors installed on bridges, in roadways, and on maintenance vehicles are communicating real-time performance and weather data, allowing engineers to solve problems before they occur.
"Most people look at a road or a bridge and never realise the technology that today's modern tra
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) researchers have been studying futuristic transport solutions for car-free urban centres and have come up with an optimal design for a network of accelerating moving walkways.
This is not a new concept – the first moving walkways were seen in Chicago in 1893 and seven years later they were used at the world’s fair in Paris. They are also regularly used the world over in airports and transport terminals.
As part of the PostCarW
