ITS World Congress preliminary programme now online
The preliminary programme of the 22nd ITS World Congress is now available online, with details of all sessions, speakers, social and associated events, as well as the 30-plus demonstr4ations which have been planned for the congress in Bordeaux.
June 16, 2015
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In addition to the opening and closing ceremonies, and three plenary sessions, highlights of this year’s event include the Ministerial Roundtable, two high-level technology summits and a public afternoon open to all.
Keynote speakers at the Plenary sessions include: Ogi Redzic, senior vice-president, Connected Driving, Here; Pierre Coppey, president of Vinci and ASFA, Steve Yianni, chief executive officer, Transport Systems Catapult; and Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport.
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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
As part of the UK’s rail electrification programme, FutureRailway is launching a competition to design a Pantograph Dynamic Behaviour Measurement Device for use in Rolling Stock Maintenance Depots.
Currently pantographs cannot be run too close together and are limited in the speed they can achieve. Electric trains which can run at faster speeds whilst coupled together in multiple could improve both train performance and network capacity. Improvements in pantograph capability are thought to be needed to r
Wincor Nixdorf is highlighting four key cashless payment innovations at this year’s CARTES, allowing visitors to take a closer look at the Wincor Nixdorf mobile e-wallet for paying remotely and in-store via a smartphone; the EFT POS electronic funds transfer point-of-sales single gateway system; a new android-based mobile payment tablet computer; and the company’s mobile money transfer services for mobile wallet and store-value-based applications.
ID TECH’s new addition to its audio jack family of secure mobile card readers, UniPay, combines contact chip card reading and magnetic stripe reading in a single device. EMV Level 1 approved with AES and TDES encryption algorithms, and DUKPT key management, it ensures that consumers’ financial information is securely transmitted to the host device.
Able to connect to various mobile devices such as Apple and Android platforms with an SDK, UniPay transforms any mobile device with an audio jack into a POS sy