The seminar programme for Intertraffic 2016 is now online, including more than 80 theatre sessions, presentations, round tables, workshops and demonstrations. These include topics such as: Launch of Intelligent Public Space; the gateway to smart solutions and applications in public space; Digital Transport paving the way for new chapter in C-ITS; Successfully deploying automated speed enforcement programs; Multimodal Traffic Management - Bridge Management System as well as presentations by manufacturers and
The seminar programme for 70 Intertraffic 2016 is now online, including more than 80 theatre sessions, presentations, round tables, workshops and demonstrations.
These include topics such as: Launch of Intelligent Public Space; the gateway to smart solutions and applications in public space; Digital Transport paving the way for new chapter in C-ITS; Successfully deploying automated speed enforcement programs; Multimodal Traffic Management - Bridge Management System as well as presentations by manufacturers and much more. The overall winner of the Intertraffic Innovation Award will also make a presentation on 5 April.
The programme is free to attend for registered visitors. More information and seminar registration is available on the Intertraffic website. %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternalClick hereVisit Intertraffic websitefalsehttp://www.intertraffic.com/amsterdam/programme/?utm_term=&utm_content=ITA2016_b_nb_2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nieuwsbrieven_2016&utm_source=RE_emailmarketing&tid=TIDP21579X1E18978802CD4ABEA97E40866210923CYI2)falsefalse%> for more details.
Australia’s National Electronic Tolling Forum (NeTC) 2016, hosted by ITS Australia, takes place in Brisbane on 25 and 26 May 2016. The program committee is now inviting speakers to submit abstracts for consideration for presentation.
Submission topics include: Customer service and tolling; Tolling back office systems; Enforcement and collection; Recent and upcoming projects in Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific and Global; Big Data – Collection, Exchange and Privacy Issues;
Deadline for submissions
Columbus, Ohio has been named City of the Year in the Smart Cities Dive website’s awards for its work on transit and electrification.
The US city won the US Department of Transportation’s inaugural Smart City Challenge two years ago – and is rolling out a variety of smart city-related programmes.
Smart Cities Dive said the city’s “biggest area of progress this year” has been its increased reliance on electric vehicles (EVs), including in its bus fleet and other government vehicles.
City authoritie
FLIR Traficon Academy is organising a variety of online training in January 2016, including ITS solutions for traffic management and Flir ThermiCam, where participants can learn how its ThermiCam/TrafiSense sensor can be used for pedestrian presence detection, bicycle presence detection, vehicle presence detection, inverse direction detection, and data collection.
The company is also offering traffic training on intersections and crossings in May.
Visit the Flir website for more information on the ran
David Crawford welcomes new lives for old road safety products. Traffic cones and barrels have traditionally been on the bottom shelf of the road construction and maintenance industry, typically forming visible soft safety barriers for temporary works at a lower cost than concrete alternatives. On both sides of the Atlantic, however, they are fast gaining new roles as instrumented components in advanced construction safety arrays. The EC-sponsored €1 million (US$1.31 million) Safelane collaborative innovati