With distracted driving continuing to be a major road safety topic around the world, Volkswagen, Hong Kong, has produced an innovative advertisement designed to bring home the impact of mobile phone use whilst driving.
July 21, 2014
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With distracted driving continuing to be a major road safety topic around the world, 994 Volkswagen, Hong Kong, has produced an innovative advertisement designed to bring home the impact of mobile phone use whilst driving.
According to the AAA Foundation’s latest Traffic Safety Culture Index, too many Americans report that they regularly speed, run red lights, use distracting devices or drive drowsy, despite the fact that one in three have a loved one who has been seriously injured or killed in a crash. The results further find that unsafe behaviour persists even though one in five drivers have themselves been involved in a serious crash, and one in ten has been seriously injured in a crash.
These most recent findings from
Caroline Visser believes the ITS industry must present a coherent case for consideration of the technology to become part of transport policy and planning. As ITS advisor and road finance director for the International Road Federation (IRF) in Geneva, Caroline Visser is well placed to evaluate quantifying the benefits of ITS implementation – a topic about which there is little agreement and even less consistency. She is pressing to get some consistency in the evaluation of ITS deployments through the use of
US-based transportation planning, engineering, and construction company Parsons has expanded its global transportation operations with the acquisition Delcan, an international multidisciplinary engineering, planning, management, and technology firm that provides a broad range of integrated systems and infrastructure solutions to the transportation market.
Delcan is a strategic addition to Parsons and signals the firm’s intent to expand its geographic footprint in transportation, one of the corporation’
