Q-Free has unveiled a product which it says could save agencies tens of thousands of dollars when they upgrade signalised intersections.
The Intelight Device Manager allows transportation agencies to remotely schedule firmware updates in bulk without putting an intersection into flashing red mode, the company says.
Traditionally, technicians travel to each intersection and perform the update by putting the intersection in flash, a potentially hazardous scenario for technicians and motorists.
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Polish company Propark has developed a novel parking program. This is said to make management of parking areas easier and more efficient and the company claims the system lowers running costs and maintenance needs, while also boosting cost effectiveness.
The system best suits duties in small to medium-sized parking lots and its simplicity is said to ensure that it requires minimal training to use. Its speed and efficiency is said to reduce queues by speeding up transactions. Effective control is offered of
Bob Lees, co-founder of Diamond Consulting Services, on why the loop detector just refuses to go away. The more strident proponents of newer and emergent detection technologies are quick to highlight what they see as the disadvantages, and hence the imminent passing, of the humble inductive loop. The more prosaic will acknowledge that loops continue to have a part to play in traffic management, falling back on the assertion that it is all a question of application. And yet year after year the loop, despite
Malaysia’s Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad (Prasarana), which is responsible for the modernisation of the public transport system in the country, has awarded Indra the contract to design, develop and commission a new integrated control centre for Kuala Lumpur’s monorail and the Ampang and Kelana Jaya light rail transit lines. A new control centre will integrate existing ticketing and passenger information systems, together with all transport lines operated by Prasarana and the mass rapid transit (MRT), the
