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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) and Germany’s Schaeffler Group are collaborating in a new joint research laboratory at the university, the Schaeffler Hub for Advanced REsearch at NTU (SHARE at NTU), to tackle transportation challenges for Singapore within the context of the country’s Smart Nation vision. The lab will study various aspects of personal urban mobility and intelligent transportation systems for mega cities of the future. The research projects include studying human user beh

The European Commission has announced the winners of the 2016 European sustainable urban mobility awards at a ceremony held in Brussels. Malmö, Sweden won the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Award 2016 for its long-term focus on active transport modes such as cycling and walking, while the fifth Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning was presented to Brussels, Belgium for its successful freight strategy. Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, receives the award for its efforts in promoting active travel

Technology firm Indra is leading the R&D&i Transforming Transport project, which aims to demonstrate how the use of data may improve management and services rendered to clients in the logistics and transport sector, through 13 large-scale pilots in different countries and transport modes. Funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 program, the project includes 47 partners from Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Spain, including some of

Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA), located in Albany, New York, has awarded Init the contract to implement an intelligent transportation management system (ITMS) across their entire fixed-route fleet. The contract will modernise CDTA’s existing fleet management system to a cloud-hosted system, upgrade the automatic passenger counting system and deploy real-time passenger infotainment displays on-board and at various stop locations. CDTA customers will have their choice of real-time informa

From 1 May 2017, NZ Transport Agency commences a new five-year road-weather data and data visualisation service with the Meteorological Service of New Zealand (MetService). MetService is contracting Finnish road-weather forecasting company, Foreca to provide high-resolution road-weather forecasts which are based on MetService’s own forecasting services and a range of additional weather and road information. The services will provide MetService road-weather forecasters with considerably enhanced, yea

US-based weather forecast provider Global Weather Corporation (GWC is launching a free subscription program Weekend Road Conditions Preview providing a snapshot preview of the changing road surface conditions as of Friday morning for the upcoming weekend for all major roadways in North America and Europe. Weekend Road Conditions Preview is based on the company’s more comprehensive RoadWX technology, which forecasts road surface conditions and corresponding weather forecasts.

UK-based Ricardo Energy & Environment, working with technology partner OPUS Inspection, has launched a vehicle emissions monitoring service for the measurement of emissions from vehicles on UK roads. Installed at locations of interest, the system records driving emissions in a completely non-intrusive manner from each passing vehicle, including nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and ammonia. The system can also be linked to automatic number plate recogniti

Swedish company Fältcom, a Telia subsidiary, has closed a deal with the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) to supply its IoT platform MIIPS for an upgrade of 475 traffic signals in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island in an effort to improve traffic flow at intersections. It is estimated that there are more than 13,000 traffic lights in New York City. Fältcom’s Linux-based MIIPS is already used by the DOT in a program which connects buses and digital displays to provide travel inf

The UK government has announced a new US$28.5 million (£23 million) fund to accelerate the take up of hydrogen vehicles and roll out more cutting-edge infrastructure. Hydrogen fuel providers will be able to bid for funding in partnership with organisations that produce hydrogen vehicles to help build high-tech infrastructure, including fuel stations. The funding will boost the creation of hydrogen fuel infrastructure and uptake of hydrogen-powered vehicles. A competition will be launched this summer,

UK companies Arup and Mabey have installed what they say is the world’s first modular glass-fibre, reinforced polymer bridge, with Mabey becoming the first licensed distribution partner. The post-tensioned bridge is designed to be assembled in hard to reach sites where large cranes or heavy machinery cannot be used. Part-funded by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) the modular bridge is expected to be of particular interest to the rail industry, providing a safer alternative to level crossings w

Joint venture company Nevis Technologies is to supply its smart ticketing solutions to UK bus company Lothian Buses, providing a platform of interoperable ticketing products that can be integrated with Lothian Buses’ existing infrastructure. This allows Lothian Buses to offer smart card ticketing which could also be used across other modes of transport, including rail, subway and ferry. Nevis Technologies is a joint venture company between smart transportation technology provider Rambus and Strathclyde

Parking equipment manufacturer WPS has won a further landmark contract to provide its ParkAdvance technology for the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales. ParkAdvance is a pay-on-foot system designed featuring a new IP-based operating system architecture that enables the parking system to simply and directly connect with multiple technologies being deployed in car parks both now and in the future.

With distracted driving causing a dramatic rise in ‘swerve to avoid’ crashes, Claims Management & Adjusting (CMA) has welcomed a clarification by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that traffic flow CCTV is not personal data. In a stance criticised by drivers, fleet operators and insurers, Highways England has apparently used the Data Protection Act to justify the deletion of footage after only seven days, even when it might prove liability in a serious accident. It has also cited the cost of st

Siemens has been chosen by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), a US independent special district that provides sustainable, accessible, community-focused transportation options for Santa Clara County, California, to provide innovative electrification technology to power the Guadalupe Corridor light rail line. VTA’s infrastructure modernisation will replace 27-year-old systems with Siemens’ new technology that includes advanced monitoring and diagnostic features to streamline maintenance a

Ford is introducing technology that can automatically brake for pedestrians at night; the pedestrian detection system processes information from a radar located in the bumper and a windshield mounted camera; while a database of pedestrian shapes enables the system to distinguish people from objects such as trees and road signs. The camera delivers more than 30 snapshots every second and the video live-feed and viewing angle enables the system to pick out pedestrians, even in low-light conditions, illumin