British Columbia’s Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation and the TransLink Board have joined forces today to send a 90-Day Action Plan for Metro Vancouver Transportation to all parties and all newly elected MLAs in the region.
Governments must consider ways to manage the transition to driverless trucks in order to avoid potential social disruption from job losses, says a new report published by the International Transport Forum (ITF) with three partner organisations.
US wireless solutions supplier Intuicom is to supply the city of Superior, Colorado, with the communications infrastructure for its new advanced traffic management system (ATMS) network.
The latest report from IDTechEx Research, Electric Vehicle Energy Harvesting/Regeneration 2017-2037, explains and forecasts the technologies involved in this key enabling technology. EH/R will be as important and sometimes more important than motors, batteries and power electronics: fabulous opportunities await vehicle, parts and material manufacturers unplugging into this future.
An inner-city renewal initiative in Buenos Aires. Argentina has been awarded the International Transport Forum's Transport Achievement Award, which will be presented during the ITF summit on 1 June in Leipzig, Germany.
A new US$386,000 (£300,000) network of digital CCTV and automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras, including automated alert systems, are being installed on key routes around Aberdeen, Scotland to monitor traffic flow and journey times.
The South Australian Government is to trial technology which triggers safety measures when vehicles are detected approaching intersections. It is to be installed at four key rural locations in South Australia in an effort to reduce fatal and serious crashes by slowing motorists and making them aware of an approaching intersection.
Iteris has been awarded a US$934,000 contract for design services by Alameda-Contra Costa Transit (AC Transit) for a corridor travel time improvement project. The project includes the implementation of transit signal priority (TSP), bus stop improvements, real-time passenger information system, and deployment of an adaptive signal control technology system.
NASA and its partners are in the midst of testing the next, more complex version of its unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management (UTM) technologies with live, remotely-operated aircraft, or drones, at six different sites around the US.
PTV Group plans to participate in the 2017 International Transport Forum to demonstrate its software solutions which help model future mobility scenarios and allow evaluation of new business models, such as mobility as a service.
FIA Region I welcomes the position adopted by the Member States regarding the revision of vehicle type approval regulations. The Council’s decision to impose some checks after vehicles are put into circulation is a positive step forward.
Nova Bus has provided Canadian public transport operator Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) with three electric buses as part of the Montreal City Mobility project.
Spanish technology company Indra has deployed an advanced communications network for public rail operator Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado to provide service for the rail network in Argentina connecting the city of Buenos Aires with urban and suburban towns in its metropolitan area
The Western Transportation Institute (WTI) at Montana State University is launching a program to study how to safely integrate driverless technology into the US trucking fleet. Similar to the driverless cars being developed by Google and others, self-driving trucks would use sophisticated computers and GPS technology to navigate roadways. Within a decade, the technology is likely to be applied in semi-autonomous truck convoys, or ‘platoons’, in which trucks equipped with self-driving technology would be pro
Technology research company Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global smart highway construction market 2017-2021 report. This market research report also lists 14 other prominent vendors that are expected to impact the market during the forecast period. According to the report, the smart highway construction market will grow at an exponential rate and post a CAGR of almost 94 per cent by 2021. The vendors in this market can expect significant market growth in the coming ye
