Last week’s ITS America 28th Annual Meeting & Expo saw some of the ITS industry’s biggest players gathering in Washington, DC. ITS International produced three Daily News magazines at the show, covering launches, deals, products and highlights from a packed speaker programme. For all the stories and digital editions of the Daily News, go to: www.itsamericalive.com
June 11, 2019
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All digital issues are available on our Daily News website
Last week’s 560 ITS America 28th Annual Meeting & Expo saw some of the ITS industry’s biggest players gathering in Washington, DC. ITS International produced three Daily News magazines at the show, covering launches, deals, products and highlights from a packed speaker programme. For all the stories and digital editions of the Daily News, go to: %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external www.itsamericalive.comfalsehttp://www.dailynews-online.com/itsamerica2019/falsefalse%>
Here Technologies’ location platform is being used by Motion Auto to deliver user-based insurance policies to its customers.
The platform will provide the insurer with information on speed limits and rules of the road as well as measurements of the road surface condition and variable data such as traffic conditions.
Daniel Weisman, co-founder of Motion Auto, says Here will help the company understand the behaviour of customers and their relationships to routes, road conditions and traffic.
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Silca Traffic Systems Europe is launching its newly-developed portable Roof Drip information display. Designed to help quickly inform and manage traffic and other situations, the mobile information display is installed in a case that can be fitted on the roof of any delivery van or car.
According to the company, the biggest benefit is that users always have a safety information display with them to deal with an incident.
Okeenea already produces its more conventional accessible pedestrian signal (APS). While it has been a successful product, according to the company, it is also noisier and so is not so convenient for visually impaired people. Now, Okeenea has launched the aBeacon, which it says is the perfect mix of the APS and high-end technologies like iBeacon to provide new digital services to improve mobility of all citizens. Key features of the easy-to-install aBeacon include less operational noise and also activation
Copenhagen metro operator Metroselkabet has appointed Arup as part of a joint venture with Rambøll to develop the light rail on ring 3 for greater Copenhagen. The new light rail system includes a double track alignment of 27 kilometres and 27 stations with a rolling stock fleet of 27 light rail vehicles.
This major project was planned to promote the use of public transport as well as encourage the urban development along the route and the passage across the city to avoid interchanging in the centre.
