The municipality of The Hague in the Netherlands is to move to digital parking enforcement, using Agendum’s Scanman platform, which is already used in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Haarlem and Utrecht.
Parking enforcement officers using cars or scooters will scan parked vehicles; the scans are processed by the Scanman system to confirm parking permit validity and data on vehicles without a parking permit are forwarded to on-street parking attendants, who use CityControl’s Sigmax hand-held computer for f
The London Borough of Wandsworth is moving to cashless parking terminals in a drive by to enhance customer convenience.
The local authority has just installed 177 Parkeon StradaPAL terminals as part of a renewal programme, following on from 140 StradaPAL machines installed in 2014.
All the new terminals are solar powered and are Chip and PIN and contactless enabled –four machines will accept cash. They can all be configured remotely, with customer communication presented via a seven-inch colour screen
Colin Sowman considers some of the latest advances in camera technology and transport-related
vision technology applications. Vision technology in the transportation sector is moving apace as technical developments on both the hardware and software sides combine to make cameras more multifunctional with a single digital camera now able to cover a multitude of tasks.
As a result of collaboration between VicRoads and the Technical University of Crete in Victoria, Australia, to find new ways to reduce congestion, drivers on the M80 are to benefit from new technology.
Following a manual trial in 2014, the Adaptive Variable Speed Limit has now been implemented on the M80 ring road in Melbourne. The system recognises when traffic is starting to build up and adjusts traffic speed, regulating traffic flow and providing a safer and more reliable journey for the 160,000 drive
