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%>
PIPS Technology has rebranded its successful Spike camera range as the ‘Spike Planets'. Visitors to the ITS World Congress will be able to see new products in the range, including Spike Venus, Spike Neptune (integrated ANPR cameras) and Spike Helios (an off axis Illuminator). The latest addition to the range is the Spike Saturn, an integrated ANPR camera designed to cover three UK lanes of traffic.
Scania is to deliver 741 Euro 6 gas buses to Bogotá, Colombia, in a deal which is expected to reduce carbon emissions by up 20%.
This deployment serves as an extension to an initial order placed by TransMilenio for the procurement of 481 Euro 6 gas buses and is part of the city’s bus rapid transit (BRT) renewal programme.
Masivo Bogotá will operate the 260 bi-articulated Scania F340 HA 8x2 buses across 18 stations on the Américas BRT line.
Carlos Ocampo, Scania Colombia's managing director, says:
TrafficCast (TC) has launched a new series of free online webinars to help its partners get the most out of their BlueToad systems by providing refresher courses for frequent users and an overview for new members utilizing the network. These sessions, starting this week, will cover a range of topics, subjects and features on BlueToad hardware and BlueArgus software. The first five courses TC is offering include an Introduction to BlueToads, BlueArgus, Devices, Pairs and Routes; Speed Maps, Standalone Maps
Ertico-ITS Europe is inviting mobility professionals to submit papers for next year’s ITS European Congress in the Netherlands.
The European Programme Committee wants papers for various sessions for the event in Brainport, which runs 3-6 June 2019.
Experts are also invited to share ideas and discuss mobility challenges that cities face and how they can be addressed through ITS solutions.
Draft papers should be a minimum of five pages for technical and commercial topics, and nine pages for scientif
