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Vaisala expands air quality product offering
August 30, 2016
Vaisala has acquired new products and technology from Finnish company Envitems to expand its offering in the growing air quality monitoring market. The products acquired measure pollution gases, like carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and ozone, as well as particles in the air. The products can be combined seamlessly with Vaisala industry-leading WXT multi-weather stations, and they present a novel, innovative way to build affordable but comprehensive air quality monitoring ne
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Hamburg and Volkswagen agree strategic mobility partnership
August 30, 2016
The German city of Hamburg and the Volkswagen Group are to collaborate over the next three years to jointly develop innovative solutions for making urban mobility more environmentally-friendly, safer, more reliable and more efficient. For Volkswagen the partnership is another step in its new Together 2025 strategy, for Hamburg it represents an important step in its strategy to develop intelligent transport systems and support its application to host the 2021 ITS World Congress.
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Michigan DOT director joins committee to study the future of interstates
August 30, 2016
Sixty years after president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal Highway Act 1956 into law, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is to carry out a 30 month study of the future of the country’s interstate highway system. Michigan Department of Transportation director Kirk T. Steudle has been named as a member of the committee that will study the future of the US Interstate Highway System (IGS).
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Installed base of fleet management systems in Europe to reach 10.6 million by 2020
August 26, 2016
The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in Europe was 5.3 million in Q4-2015, according to a new research report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.9 percent, this number is expected to reach 10.6 million by 2020. All the top-10 vendors have today more than 100,000 active units in Europe. TomTom’s subscriber base has grown both organically and by acquisitions during the past years and the company ha
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Los Angeles Metro deploys real-time signage
August 26, 2016
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has awarded a US$4 million contract to Syncromatics to design, install, and operate a network of 300 real-time bus information signs at the busiest bus shelters across Los Angeles County. The electronic signs, the first to be deployed widely in the Metro bus system, will provide real time arrival times, service alerts, and other information about Metro buses, as well as those operated by other regional transit agencies that share bus sh
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Montreal invests in smart street lighting
August 26, 2016
Israeli smart city control applications provider Telematics Wireless is to supply its smart city technology for use in a new control and monitoring solution for 132,500 street lights in the City of Montreal, Canada, as part of a US$22 million (CA$28 million) contract awarded to engineering consultants Énergère for the supply and installation of an intelligent street lighting management solution. Telematics' solution will include its 7-pin external lighting control units (LCUs) and internal LCUs that will co
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Used EV batteries to transform stationary storage
August 26, 2016
According to a report (link http://about.bnef.com/landing-pages/new-life-used-ev-batteries-stationary-storage/.) by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the electric vehicle market is set to grow quickly, but so far there has been no consensus on a ‘second-life’ for the many used EV batteries. In this report, senior analyst Claire Curry has compiled the first data and shows that low-cost energy storage could be here sooner than previously thought. She projects that there will be 29 GWh of used EV batter
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Hungary spending millions on cycle routes
August 26, 2016
Hungary’s Ministry of National Development is to spend (US$107 million (€95 million) to develop the country’s cycling routes, including EuroVelo 6 Atlantic-Black Sea and the EuroVelo 11 East Europe Route which are some of the major long distance cycling routes in Hungary. Making the announcement earlier this month, the new commissioner for cycling, Máriusz Révész revealed his plans and the new priorities for the development of cycling and cycling tourism, as well as a complete renewal of the signposting
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Slovenia to introduce interoperable public transport ticket
August 26, 2016
Slovenia is to integrate its public transport system with the introduction of an interoperable ticket, which will enable users to use different types of public transport without having to buy separate tickets. The ticket will integrate the use of regular rail and inter-urban bus transport in Slovenia and urban transport in the two largest Slovenian cities in a single system from 1 September. The first phase will introduce a single subsidised ticket for pupils, students and adult learners.
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Georgia DOT deploys ‘smart’ traffic signals
August 26, 2016
Georgia Department of Transportation, in partnership with Intelight, has deployed ‘smart’ signals at 1,000 intersections throughout the state. The project is part of a state-wide upgrade which converts traffic lights in Georgia to an up-to-the-second traffic signal controller technology. The new software provides significant improvements to how Georgia DOT and local agencies can operate their signal systems. The software, which was launched in autumn 2015 and is scheduled to be fully deployed on Geor
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Self-driving taxis take to the road in Singapore
August 26, 2016
US self-driving car software developer nuTonomy has launched a public trial of a self-driving taxi service in Singapore’s one-north business district, a 2.5 square mile business district, where the company has been conducting daily autonomous vehicle (AV) testing since April. nuTonomy’s cars, a Renault Zoe or Mitsubishi i-MiEV specially configured for autonomous driving, will have an engineer from nuTonomy in the vehicle to observe system performance and assume control if needed to ensure passenger comfo
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Vision 2016: More exhibitors expected than ever before
August 26, 2016
Vision, the leading machine vision trade fair, for will open its doors for the 27th time in just two months. Over 400 exhibitors from 28 countries are expected in Stuttgart this November. Among this year's exhibitors will be market leaders such as Allied Vision, Basler and Stemmer Imaging, all of whom are regular exhibitors. But new companies such as ifm electronic and Bosch Healthcare will also be contributing to the diversity of the trade fair.
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Swarco strengthens position in American ITS market
August 26, 2016
Austrian traffic technology group Swarco has entered a definitive agreement to acquire California, US-based McCain based, which supplies traffic controllers, cabinets, signals, signs and software for the urban traffic market. The deal, scheduled to close on 31 August 2016, outlines Swarco’s intent to purchase 100% of the shares of the McCain. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Swarco plans to build upon the McCain brand; founder and owner Manfred Swarovski said they both have comp
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Q-Free Open Roads awarded West Virginia ATMS Service and Maintenance contract
August 26, 2016
The West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) has awarded Q-Free Open Roads (Q-Free OR a US$1.4 million maintenance contract to maintain and enhance OpenTMS v.8, the WVDOH advanced transportation management system (ATMS). In 2008, Q-Free OR designed and deployed the WVDOH state-wide ATMS solution, OpenTMS, a fully-featured and easy-to-use off-the-shelf ATMS solution on the market, enabling intelligent and automated transportation operations. The two organisations have collaborated on many new initia
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Government funding for Lincoln transport hub
August 25, 2016
The UK government has announced funding for the Lincoln transport hub, including a new bus station and 1,000 space car park. There will also be improvements to Lincoln Central railway station and a pedestrianised plaza connecting the bus and rail stations. As part of the upgrade, the new bus station will provide live travel information for both bus and rail passengers, while the 1,000 space multi-storey will have up to 32 electric vehicle charging points to power the next generation of vehicles. Cycle
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