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The EU-funded InterCor project, which involves France, Netherlands, UK and Belgium, is upgrading existing and new Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) services and testing them along specific ‘corridors’ to ensure interoperability across borders.

Situational awareness platform Live Earth has announced an agreement with connected car services provider Inrix, with the aim of bringing real-time visualisation to the transportation industry.

The city of Las Vegas is partnering with data specialist Numina and technology company Motionloft in a pilot scheme to enhance pedestrian safety in its recently-established Innovation District, which aims to be the home of new transportation infrastructure and mobility technologies.

The UK government has unveiled a US$8 billion (£6.1 billion) programme of road improvements as part of its US$30 billion (£23 billion) upgrade to the road network in England.

German public transport operator Bremer Strassenbahn (BSAG) has ordered a new fleet of 67 Avenio trams from Siemens.

Poland’s electro-mobility market is ripe for growth, according to research organisation Frost & Sullivan. Favourable government initiatives such as the Electro-mobility Plan and Electro-mobility and Alternative Fuels Act are reshaping local mobility and igniting innovative clean technologies to achieve higher competitiveness and energy optimisation.

Speaking at the FIA summer cocktail party, European Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, addressed the challenges he sees in mobility.

Intelligent transport systems (ITS) leaders from American, Asia Pacific and Europe will join the Australian smart transport community to explore current and future technologies at the Australian Intelligent Transport Systems Summit, 27-28 September 2017, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The European Commission is proposing to invest US$3 billion (€2.7 billion) in 152 key transport projects that support competitive, clean and connected mobility in Europe.

Q-Free has recently won two tolling contracts with a combined order value of approximately US$4 million (NOK35 million).

US provider of global connectivity solutions and IoT platforms, Globetouch, has announced the acquisition of Indian IoT solutions provider Teramatrix Technologies.

FIA Region I has just released a legal study exploring how the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply to connected car data.

With road transport in the spotlight as a key to tackling both air quality and climate challenges, the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership is launching a new multi-faceted work programme which aims to speed the transformation to cleaner vehicles and fuels.

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is to get its first bus rapid transit (BRT) system in 2019, reports the Saigon times, as part of a range of major traffic infrastructure projects being undertaken by the municipal government.

The TRL-led GATEway Project, together with Ocado Technology (a division of Ocado, the online-only supermarket) is running the UK’s first trials of an autonomous vehicle around the Berkeley Homes, Royal Arsenal Riverside development in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London.