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Physical integration of public transit systems with car-sharing will enhance convenience and drive growth opportunities, finds Frost & Sullivan's Mobility Team. Its latest study, Future of Car-sharing Market to 2025, says that with vehicle automation rapidly gaining currency, cars-haring operators (CSOs) are developing novel business models to address the evolving mobility demands of commuters. They will initially offer self-parking services, allowing members to drop off vehicles at designated parking lo

The C-Roads platform has kicked off in Europe, bringing together authorities and road operators from 11 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, UK), with the aim of harmonising deployment of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) across Europe. The C-Roads project plans to develop harmonised specifications, taking the EU C-ITS platform recommendations into account, linking all C-ITS deployments and planning intensive cro

A separate crawler lane for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and average speed cameras could be implemented on the A34 road in the UK to help improve safety. The Herald newspaper says the plan is part of a multi-million pound set of safety measures proposed by Oxfordshire County Council's transport panel following a number of recent deaths on the road. Six people have been killed on the A34 already this year, one less than the last five years combined, and it is hoped the measures will improve people's drivi

Officials in Bogotá, Colombia have initiated a strong mass media campaign aimed at reducing drink driving, a frequent cause of road crashes in the Colombian capital. With support from Vital Strategies and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), the city’s campaign will remind motorists of the great danger, both to themselves and others, caused by drink driving. Last year, 447 road crashes occurred in Bogotá, an increase from 427 in 2014, mainly due to drink driving. So f

Telstra, in partnership with Cohda Wireless, has successfully trialled vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology over Telstra’s 4G network in South Australia, an important first step in developing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology, which includes vehicles communicating with infrastructure, other vehicles, and vulnerable road users such as cyclists and pedestrians. Telstra believes its 4G and future 5G networks can play a vital role in supporting the faster rollout of intelligent transport systems

The city of Ottawa, Canada, has installed the first of five red light cameras that will be installed throughout the city in 2016 with 15 more to be installed in 2017. The 20 new red-light cameras will be in addition to the existing 34 red-light cameras currently in operation at locations across Ottawa. The city installs cameras at intersections based on collision rates. The program’s objective is to improve intersection safety by decreasing the number of red-light running occurrences. City officials b

A key European project to facilitate the wide scale deployment of electro-mobility in the road transport sector has just been launched. The three-year NeMo project, supported by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme, aims to make electro-mobility more attractive by tackling the key barriers and drawbacks currently associated with electric vehicles. The NeMo (Hyper Network for electro-Mobility) project directly addresses the changes needed to reduce the dependence of road transport on fossil fuels, to improve a

The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association's (IBTTA) has elected Tim Stewart, executive director of the E-470 Public Highway Authority to serve as its first vice president Stewart’s term begins on 1 January 2017; in 2018, Stewart will serve as IBTTA president. As the head of E-470, Stewart provides executive leadership and strategic guidance for all tolling initiatives. Stewart is responsible for the operations of the 47-mile toll road and also the ExpressToll brand, which provides tolling

UK public transport operators Arriva, Stagecoach and Merseytravel have signed a new agreement that will deliver more than US$32 million (£25 million) worth of investment in Liverpool’s bus services in year one of the five year partnership. The Liverpool City Region Bus Alliance will provide the region with improved, more efficient, joined-up and better value services. The agreement also sees a commitment from operators to provide modern bus fleets with an average age of no more than seven years. Pas

US-based Flir Systems is to acquire the business of machine vision camera developer Point Grey Research in a deal which Flir believes will augment its existing OEM cores and components business by adding a broad range of visible spectrum machine vision cameras and solutions. In addition, Flir’s thermal sensor technology will extend Point Grey’s product range into new applications. The business will become Flir’s Integrated Imaging Solutions line of business operating within the OEM and Emerging segment.

Swarco Parking & eMobility UK (formerly APT Controls Group) has re-located its head office to new premises in Hemel Hempstead to better meet the increasing business demands of Swarco’s companies and brands, which include APT Skidata, Evolt, Veri-park and APT Security Systems. The new head office establishes a London base for the company, providing more space for its growing technical and customer care departments and more space for holding stock which will reduce customer order lead time. The move fol

WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed three technical directors to its team. Carol Stitchman joins as rail technical director from Network Rail, based in Birmingham. As part of her new role, and as a member of the UK rail stations management team, Carol will strengthen the consultancy’s expertise in delivering major stations work including high speed rail. In May 2016, Carol won both the Best Woman Architect and the Most Distinguished Winner of 2016 at the European Women in Construction & Engineer

French automotive manufacturer PSA Group and Masternaut have formed a partnership that will see the Masternaut Connect telematics platform become more easily accessible to European Peugeot, Citroën, DS connected cars and light commercial vehicles. Masternaut’s services will be available for all PSA Group vehicles through the Connect Fleet Management program, using PSA Group telematics technology. Masternaut’s services can also be used in fleets comprised of other automotive brands, using Masternaut’s n

The newly-formed connected and automated driving European Automotive-Telecom Alliance has appointed Ertico as the project coordinator and administrator of the project. The main goal of the Alliance is to promote the wider deployment of connected and automated driving in Europe. The first step is the advance of a Pre-Deployment Project, aimed at testing three major use-case categories: automated driving, road safety and traffic efficiency, and digitalisation of transport and logistics. Details are due to

US-based traffic systems supplier Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) has appointed Aldridge Traffic Controllers (ATC) as its dealer for Australia, New Zealand and China. GTT will join ATC on its booth at the ITS World Congress to be held in Melbourne in October, where the two companies will host a live demonstration of GTT's Opticom system, which provides public transport and emergency vehicles with priority at traffic signal intersections. ATC provides traffic management and signalling products and syste